Tupelo Honey Cafe {Cookbook Giveaway}

I don't know about you, but I am a cookbook addict!  I love to read them and get inspired.  I was recently contacted by the folks at the Tupelo Honey Cafe.  They wanted to offer the Plain Chicken readers a chance to win a copy of their beautiful cookbook and let you know about their holiday recipe contest.

The Tupelo Honey Cafe dishes up Southern comfort food.  They are early pioneers in the farm-to-fork movement.  They have two locations in Asheville, NC.  They recently opened a new location in Knoxville, TN and have another restaurant slated for Johnson City, TN in 2013.

The cookbook is filled full of beautiful photos and incredibly delicious recipes.

Here are a few that caught my eye.

Blackened Catfish with Sunshot Salsa

Southern Fried Chicken BLT

Tomato Pie

Tupelo Honey Ginormous Biscuits

I plan on making these for breakfast tomorrow morning!  

Tupelo Honey Ginormous Biscuits

6 biscuits

2 cups bread flour

1 Tbsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

2 Tbsp sour cream

1 1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup unsalted butter, frozen

1/2 - 3/4 cup buttermilk

1 Tbsp butter, melted

Preheat oven to 450.

Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sour cream, and salt in a large bowl.  WIth a cheese grater, grate the frozen butter using the largest holes; quickly cut the butter into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter or fork until the mixture resembles coarse meal.  Add the buttermilk to the flour mixture, a little at a time.  Stir just enough so it clumps together and is no longer crumbly.  Do not overmix.  

On a floured surface, turn out the dough and roll out to a 1-inch thickness.  Using a 3-inch biscuit cutter, cut the biscuits and place on a sheet pan.  Cook on top rack of the oven for 20 minutes, or until light brown, and remove from the oven.  Brush the melted butter on top of each biscuit and return to the oven for about 5 minutes longer, or until the biscuits are golden brown.

Want to win your own copy of this cookbook?

Leave a comment on this post and tell me what is your favorite Southern recipe is.  

The giveaway runs until 11:59pm Wednesday, November 14th, 2012.

The giveaway is only open to USA residents. Be sure a valid email address is included with your comment. Winner will be chosen randomly and announced on this post. We will email the winner and if the winner doesn’t respond in 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen. Good luck!

THE CONTEST 

This holiday season the Tupelo Honey Cafe is accepting creative and flavorful holiday-inspired recipes in three categories: 

Sides 

 Desserts

 Leftovers

 The contest runs until  November 16th, and all entries will be judged by Chef Brian Sonoskus and his hungry team of taste-testers! 

 The three winners will be announced on December 3rd. 

 


Disclosure: I was given a copy of the Tupelo Honey Cafe cookbook at no cost.  All opinions are my own.