If you’re a regular reader of Savvy Eats, you know that one of my favorite restaurants is Bluephies in Madison. It is one of the places that both my parents and Dan’s mom suggest we go to whenever they are town.
In fact, Dan and I love Bluephies so much that instead of cake, we will be serving their Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Egg Rolls at our wedding.
We love Bluephies for the unique twists they give to classic dishes. Meatloaf with Andouille sausage. Goat cheese and black bean enchiladas. Butterfinger wontons. They have plenty of vegetarian dishes, and they clearly mark on their menu when a dish can be made gluten-free. Trust me, I really appreciated that when I couldn’t eat gluten for 6 months!
Today, Bluephies turns 15! In honor of the restaurant’s ‘birthday,’ the executive chef and co-owner of Bluephies, Bill Horzuesky, has graciously agreed to giveaway one copy of the Bluephies cookbook on Savvy Eats!
This is one of my favorite cookbooks. Not only are the recipes for some of my favorite Bluephies dishes included, but the photography is beautiful and the book is riddled with Bill’s cooking tips.
It even includes the recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Egg Rolls.
In honor of my giveaway, I am going to be making a recipe (or two!) from the cookbook and featuring them on the blog every day this week. Except for Sunday, when I will be having brunch there with Kelley!
Unfortunately, I can’t post any of the recipes here because of copyrights, but I can show you pictures and give you my thoughts on the difficulty and deliciousness of the dishes.
First up:
Butternut Squash Soup. The recipe wasn’t too difficult, and the results were pretty yummy! I did learn, however, that I should not multitask and try to do the beginning steps while also making the Tomato Olive Butter. I burned the brown sugar a bit doing that, hence the darker-than-normal color–oops! Other than that, the soup was excellent. It makes a huge batch, so I cut it down since I have so many other things to make this week.
Tomato Olive Butter. This is what Bluephies serves before each meal with sourdough bread. It is so delicious, and it turns out it is pretty simple to make! I am doing my best to keep myself from eating all of the leftovers with fresh sourdough.
How can you enter this giveaway and learn to make all these delicious meals? Simple!
How to Enter:
1. Leave a comment here about the most unique twist you’ve made on a classic dish/ you would like to make.
2. One extra entry if you Tweet about this giveaway (@savvyeat), and leave an additional comment below saying you did so.
I’ll select a winner on Sunday afternoon!
This is an awesome give-away! I would LOVE a copy of this! I think one of my friends had them cater her engagement party…if they cater? That tomato olive butter looks and sounds delicious! (even though my BF doesn’t like olives, I would still make it!!!)
I don’t like olives! I actually had no idea this had olives in it until I made it for the first time… that’s how much you can taste them!
Hmmm…all I can think of it making lobster mac and cheese for normal mac and cheese. It was my original idea, but my recipe is sooo good.!!
BEST. GIVEAWAY. EVER.
i agree with Jessica on the mac n cheese recipe- Mac N Cheese is one of my all time favorite comfortfoods, this fall I nutritioned it up by adding some Butternut Squash- It’s SO GOOD!!!
I’m also a fan of Beer Bacon Cheddar cupcakes for superbowl parties- a recipe i modified from The Cupcake Project. but thats a story for another post
also – as Bluphies is one of my FAVORITE places in the Mad-City- you can BET YOUR BIPPY i will be Re-tweeting about your giveaway!
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I would LOOOOVE this cookbook!!! I <3 Bluephies! It's not unique to the food-blog world, but my favorite twist is adding sliced apples or pears to grilled cheese. My bf thought it would be gross, but he loved it!
I’ll name a dish that I love (but haven’t made yet) from a restaurant here in MN. It’s a creamy mac & cheese with roasted jalapenos and bacon. So absolutely wonderful – I want some right now!
Chocolate chip cookie dough eggrolls?!?!?! OMG die! I love dessert eggrolls!
I don’t know if this really constitutes a unique twist on a classic, but i am the queen of throwing things in my wok with some brown rice or quinoa and calling it stir-fry. Last night was spinach, garlic, asparagus and tofu (I REALLY need to go shopping!)
Also, as a side note, I didn’t realize you were in Madison until you mentioned it in your snow day post. I’m in Chicago. We’re practically neighbors! I also have an acquaintance who works at UW – Madison.
butternut squash soup sounds amazing!! & great giveaway… maybe if i’d cook i’d want to get it :-\ haha one day
Butternut squash soup sounds really yummy. I’m not sure if this is a real unique twist, but I take tomato soup and add frozen veggies or some ground turkey and rice.
I am so uncreative! That’s why I need this book
Haha, love it!
Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever spent so much time on a restaurant’s website, especially one that is so far away. Everything on the menu sounds so good.
As far as twists in cooking go…. it’s been a while. Thanks for the reminder. I feel some adventures in the kitchen coming on.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Egg Rolls sounds like a fantastic idea!
I would love to try making a fruit/cookie pizza! I know that’s simple but I’ve never tried it and it sounds fun
I love this restaurant! I always try to make recipes a little healthier by subbing ingredients.
wow, it sounds wonderful! I love going to restaurants that you know will always be a great experience. I would love to try their recipes! Those egg rolls look to die for.
ooh, I forgot! I always like mixing sweet and salty things, so I like to put figs or grilled peaches on pizza, don’t know if that’s unique, but it’s yummy!
tweeted about it too!
what i can think of is:
ww spaghetti noodles + hot sauce + broccoli + carrots + tomatoes + other veggies
all mixed in baking dish, pop it in oven at 375 for 20min. YUMMY dish of baked spaghetti!
Oops, posted on today’s post.
I add coconut to muffins and pastries as a sweetener!
I also tweeted @PreventionRD and I’m following you on Twitter!
Hmm a new twist on a classic? I love calzones and the best idea that has popped into my head is a breakfast calzone! It would contain scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, faux breakfast sausage (I don’t eat red meat), and diced green peppers, and salsa, or heck maybe even some marinara sauce for dipping.
And I tweeted about the giveaway @JuliaJogging!
Thanks for such a great giveaway!
I have no unique dish to mention, but I just wanted to say I LOVE BLUEPHIES!!!!! When I lived in Madison I went there a few times, but only for dessert and breakfast, both of which were amazing! Next time I’m in town I’m definitely going to have make a stop for dinner!
Oh, wait, I don’t know if this counts, but there is a greasy spoon called Donatelli’s in White Bear Lake (featured on Diners Drive-ins and Dives), and they have a spaghetti pizza pie. It was pretty good.
And looking over previous posts, I’d like to second the adding squash (I added pumpkin puree) to mac and cheese. Yummy way to add more veggies.
yum – that butter looks amazing!
Hmm…nutella in brownies is pretty amazing. and I love all kinds of fun toppings on pancakes + french toast (pumpkin, yogurt, trail mix, nut butters, etc)
I think one of mine may be a twist on the classic french toast, “stuffing” it with cream cheese and bananas topping with a hazelnut infused syrup… did it just a few weekends ago, hello yum!
I am the only one that eats it, but I love adding pickled jalapenos to my omelets – gives it a great kick!
Great giveaway too!
i LOVE bluephies!
here i thought i was all creative, but someone else had the same idea i did! butternut squash all blenderized up and mixed into mac & cheese!
Unfortunately, I am not that creative when it comes to cooking, so this cookbook would help me out! I love adding roasted veggies to salads, if that is creative at all
And I have been to Bluephies once and loved. The cookbook looks awesome!
Hmmm let’s see…one of the most creative things i’ve done to a traditional recipe is probably when I made ice-cream using no eggs or cream. Instead, I substituted with condensed skim milk, almond milk, and powdered fat-free coffee creamer for a creamier texture. It really works and makes a fantastic ice-cream base with stevia and vanilla!
Hi there! I just added you to my twitter and am following you.
Just tweeted your giveaway too!
I love making grilled cheese more fancy. Whether it’s fun bread, cheese or veggies, it’s so easy to jazz it up!
I’m following you and tweeted too!
Twist on a dish would have to be adding spinach to our buffalo chicken lasagna. My husband can’t tell and I take an already healthy dish and add vegetables making it a complete meal, love it!
Tweeted @PreventionRD (I follow you already!)
Oh wow! Bluephies New American Cooking cookbook looks amazing. I love cookbooks that are as much as a piece of art as much as it is a cooking tool. Thank you so much for the opportunity to enter my name, for a chance to own it.
A unique twist I have made on a classic would have to be spicy chocolate ice cream sundaes. The topping is a delicious chocolate sauce that embraces a healthy dose of Tabasco sauce. First the sweet, then a bite of spicy leaving you begging for some more cool sweet stuff.
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