Giveaway: Cookin’ Crunk
Our winner, a person after my own stomach!
Rushi: I love fried okra, i love it so much!
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When I was trying to decide who to contact about giveaways based on what I thought people would be most interested in winning, Cookin’ Crunk immediately sprung to mind. Not just because Bianca is a popular and well liked vegan blogger, but because I have been hearing rumblings about this book for what seems like years. If you’ve read her blog for awhile, you’ve seen posts referencing ‘my upcoming book’ for awhile, so I think it’s safe to say that Cookin’ Crunk has been a highly anticipated book!
If you don’t know, the most widely accepted definition of ‘crunk’ is ‘to get excited’ (it’s also used as a synonym for getting drunk and/or high, but please do not try to smoke this book). I haven’t had a chance to pick up a copy yet, but after following Vegan Crunk for over a year and seeing pictures of a lot of the dishes featured in the book, I am definitely excited to get my hands on some authentic vegan southern recipes! For an in-depth review, Joni has you covered. If you can’t wait to win a copy, you can pick it up at your local bookstore or on the publisher’s website!
Book Publishing Co. has offered to send one lucky reader a copy of Cookin’ Crunk! To enter, simply comment here, telling me what your favorite (vegan) southern dish is. This one is open to US and Canada, because I am so late putting it up I will draw a winner tomorrow, October 16th, at 6 pm EST.
And while you’re at it, why don’t you go on over to Vegan Crunk and check out Bianca’s sandwichy MoFo theme and wish her happy birthday?
149 thoughts on “Giveaway: Cookin’ Crunk”
A mess of greens is my favorite southern dish, but chicken-fried seitan and waffles from Madeleine Bistro is a fun treat!
Here’s the thing: I don’t have a favorite Southern dish. Thus, I need this book! Especially since I’m living in the south again. (Well, the pseudo-South.)
For me it is sauteed yellow squash and onions 🙂
favorite southern vegan dish? collard greens and cornbread!
Barbeque tofu with collard greens
Wayward Cafe in Seattle’s Vegan Biscuits and Gravy.
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Does jalapeno cornbread count? Because jalapeno cornbread.
Creole-style greens’n’beans!
Having grown up in the midwest and now moved to the west coast, I don’t have a clue about southern cooking. I need this cookbook to introduce me!
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Biscuits and fauxsage gravy!
Mac and “cheeze”, daisy mae!! 🙂
I have to give credit to the Chicago diner in Chicago for my favorite southern grub, their biscuits n’ gravy is insane in the membrane!
My favorite vegan dish has to be a simple sweet potato pie after dinner (it’s the season!) or maybe pumpkin pie! (any type of pie really 🙂 )
My favorite vegan southern cuisine is tomato/okra soup with corn bread. The soup contains tomatoes, okra, and corn. Oh so good.
Vegan Biscuits & Gravy!
I love collard greens! Steamed or sautéed in coconut oil with onions and garlic. And eggplant bacon. Yummmmm
Oh goodness… I don’t know if I have a favorite Southern food! That’s why I need a copy of Bianca’s book!
southern fried tofuchicken & waffles!
I’d say biscuits and sausage gravy, but I’ve yet to find a vegan version that satisfies my craving. Maybe it’s in this book??? : )
I have to say either New Orleans beans and rice or spicy collard greens. Until I became vegan I’d never tried either one. Now I’m always looking for new southern recipes.
Hands down, it’s gonna be crispy and moist cornbread with corn kernels in there. I like to whip up some cinnamon honey butter to serve it with. Bread pudding is a close, close second.
Have to go with collars greens and corn bread. Now I’m hungry.
Gotta be mac and cheese! Sometimes with bbq tofu and southern greens (with liquid smoke of course)… yum!
Comet Cafe’s chicken-fried-seitan is awesome, but Maxine’s Southern Comfort’s smoked BBQ tofu with mashed, corn bread, and vegetables is amazing! (Both in Milwaukee)
I love making homemade vegan jambalaya as well!
There’s nothing like some good southern style soul food! We like too cook up collard greens, with mac n cheese, and barbecued textured vegetable protein!
my macaroni and cheese, spicy sauteed greens and apricot cornbread!
Oh man, gotta be some southern fried seitan with some sweet baked beans, greens, and cornbread!
Hoppin John , greens, and biscuits!!
I make a mean fried seitan and waffle sandwich!
biscuits & gravy foreverrr
Fave southern foods? Where to start…mac & ‘cheese,’ collards, seitan “wings” or chicken fried seitan…amazing!
Great giveaway, I hope I win!
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I have been waiting for this book for SO LONG!! I was so excited when I saw that it was finally coming out! As for my favorite southern style dish, I love okra, rattlesnake snap beans, and potato chunks tossed in cornmeal with spices, and fried up. I ate it about once a week this summer, with fresh okra and beans from my garden. Yum!
Red beans and rice!
There are a lot of good options though, it’s kind of hard to pick. For example, those would be a toss up with cajun spiced… anything. 🙂
I love the southern fried tofu at Souley Vegan in Oakland, CA, along with their fried okra, sweet potatoes, mac and cheese and greens. I’d love to learn to make that kind of stuff at home, so this cookbook would be great! :o)
Hell yes, Edie! Souley Vegan’s southern fried tofu is the greatest ever.
Well, I’ve got to vote for my Mama’s biscuits and vegan gravy for sure! It’s terrific!
Biscuits and gravy!
Vegan Blueberry Cornbread always makes me happy. 🙂
Southern fried seitan, collards and mac-n-cheese all piled in a huge bowl. Yum yum with a spoon!
I miss some dirty Southern cooking! I’d love to get my hands on this.
Green Cuisine corn bread! Cheap, hearty, and delicious. First vegan restaurants I went to, blew my mind.
Can I say something I haven’t even made yet? I’m dying to veganize my mom’s chicken-fried steak… now that I have a killer beefy-style seitan recipe it’s just a matter of time…
Mac, mac, mac n’ cheese!
my favorite southern dish is my newly found love of collards served over some grits!
My favorite southern dish is definitely vegan fried tofu “chicken” wish mashed potatoes and greens. Yummy!
I can’t deny a well made bean burrito. Red peppers, black beans, corn, salsa, all wrapped up in a spinach tort, and some butternut squash soup on the side. That takes me back home to Texas.
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I’m Southern, so that’s like asking a crazy cat lady who her favourite cat is. I guess my favourite thing to cook for myself is biscuits and gravy, but one of the best Southern meals I ever had was a plate at Rosetta’s Kitchen that contained sauteed greens, for which I bought a slice of cornbread to sop up the pot likker.
My (vegan) boyfriend is from rural Alabama, and we’re now obsessed with finding legit southern vegan food here in California (his standards are unsurprisingly higher than mine). My favorite vegan southern food is southern fried (cornflake-breaded) tofu cutlets with vegan tartar sauce. Soulely Vegan in Oakland makes the best I’ve ever had, and mine never turn out quite right. Maybe this book can save me from my Minnesota roots and teach me how to make proper collards and cornflake cutlets? Good gracious, I hope so.
Give me a mess of BBQ tofu and mac & cheese. That’s happy food!
Fresh cornbread right out of the oven! Being a lifelong vegetarian and now vegan, I’ve never truly experienced southern food. Would love to veganize commonly non-vegan southern dishes.
Since my Southern cooking is pretty much limited to cornbread experimentation, I clearly need to expand my repertoire!
Vegan sweet potato pie! <3
Pecan pie. It has long been a family favorite, as my grandma, then grandpa after she passed, and later my aunt would bake them for holidays. I attempted my first vegan pecan pie last year and it was great. My Mississippi-born husband agreed!
Biscuits and gravy!!!
BBQ tempeh, collard greens, and fried okra. also everything else that has BBQ sauce on it!
A huge pile of collard and mustard greens!
Ahh! There are so many amazing dishes she’s featured over the years I can’t pick!
“snausage” gravy and biscuits. And grits also of course.
Buffalo chicken with ranch dressing and a side of collard beans and candied yams!
I want to find my favorite southern dish in VEGAN CRUNK! At the moment, I would have to say Collard Greens — if only I had an awesome vegan cornbread to go with them ….
big bowl of pinto beans with some chow chow!
Red beans and rice!
Chili with vegan crumbles and lots of veggies.
That would have to be okra, fresh out of my garden – tossed with olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt. I could eat that daily! Failing that – biscuits and gravy, for sure.
I don’t know enough about Southern Vegan Cooking… but I have done biscuits and gravy! This book can make some new taste buds dance for me!
corn bread and baked beans!!
I love deep fried seitan!!! Been dying to read this book, I love Bianca’s blog!
I’ve been making vegan drop biscuits every day for the past few weeks. No real reason. So biscuits are apparently my Southern fave.
Collard greens. Anything with collards makes me happy.
Collard greens and mac and cheese. I’d actually like some now. Thanks.
cornbread, it’s the basis, the side, and I need a good vegan recipe. you got any?
Oufff…my favourite south vegan food…hummm…I would say collard greens. I also like the vegan hopping john and meals with okra in it. I would really appreciate to win a copy of her book. A friend of mine is really enjoying her copy.
Thanks for that contest.
Anything deep fried and/or covered in gravy. 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love vegan mac and cheese with biscuits! Thanks for the giveaway!
Chicken fried steak, jambalaya, pecan pie, barbecue, red beans and rice…just don’t ask me to choose one!
So many great Southern vegan meals, I’d say mac n’ cheeze, greens, and BBQ seitan are a favorite.
I would love to win a copy of this book. My favorite southern food is breakfast potatoes! yum!
Etouffee!! Vegan of course 🙂 please pick me!!!!
Oh man, chicken-fried anything that isn’t actually, you know, chicken. Or biscuits. Chicken-fried thing on a biscuit. Boom.
I love greens!
Grits! I just recently learned how awesome they are, since I never ate them growing up and really had no idea what they were all about. Now I’m making up for lost time!
I love cornbread and all things corn. Though I haven’t experienced much Southern Cookery.
Jambalaya with cornbread and a side of greens.
Black eyed peas – soooo good!
Tempeh gumbo! yum!
I live in New Orleans, a city famous for its food. I have had different types of vegan po boys and gumbos, I even make my own vegan king cake for Mardi Gras, but there are so many traditional foods to be made vegan friendly: dirty rice, boudain, étouffée, etc. The vegan lifestyle is really starting to become popular, it would be nice to have this cookbook to utilize the local produce and flavors that already participate in New Orleans cuisine.
I don’t have much experience with southern cooking, but I love mac n’cheese and okra!
Grits, grits, and more grits! Oh, I hope I win this book. I’ve been following Bianca’s blog for years and I really want to get my hands on this cookbook! I’m sure the recipes are amazing! And I’m a Southern gal, so I really need it to help me please my omnivore extended Southern family during the upcoming holidays.
Anything BBQ’ed and fried pickles!
Chicken-fried tofu with a biscuit on the side. My dad’s side of the family is from Alabama, so I’m always looking for new Southern recipes to try out on them.
Good ol’ mashed ‘taters!
Southern fried chickpea cutlets with mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy!
It would have to be either red beans and rice or some greens. I do enjoy a big bowl/plate of southern style greens
Fried, breaded (GF of course!) tofu cutlets! Served with gravy! Mmm! Thanks for another giveaway!
Creole black eyed peas!
Mac-n-cheeze!!!!!!
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Chicken friend tofu and yellow squash with cornmeal coating!!
Southern BBQ fried Tempeh with a side of collard greens and pumpkin corn bread muffins! So comforting. Great thing: you feed vegan babes vegan food and they love it. My Eldest daughter was asked by our Georgia born friend what her fave food was – collard greens! Needless to say he was impressed.
Do mashed potatoes and green beans count? I don’t have experience in southern cooking.. =./
Collard greens. Lots and lots of collard greens.
BBQ Tofu and a mess of greens. Any day. Any time.
Definitely collard greens!
Cornbread all the way!
Plain ol’ Grits. I know that doesn’t sound as adventurous or detailed as southern BBQ tempeh with a side of sauteed collard greens or butternut squash pecan topped macaroni with kale… BUT , plain ol’ grits it is. Pure and Simple.
Pinto beans, for sure. Also, any kind of bean or tofu product like chick’n fried steak, etc. 🙂
I love fried okra, i love it so much!
Oh, do I want to win this! My “Last Meal” would be spicy mixed greens, black-eyed peas, biscuits and cornbread, fried okra, and peach cobbler for dessert. But if I had to pick a single favorite Southern food? Mississippi caviar, hands down. (That’s black-eyed pea salad with tomatoes, onions, and jalapeno.)
I like biscuits, definitely my fav!
Cornbread, sweet or savory. So good!
Mmmmm, I don’t think I could choose a favorite. Fried green tomatoes, biscuits and gravy, vegan gumbo, hoppin’ john, cornbread, and peach blackberry cobbler. Give me all that and I would die happy.
Black eyed peas and greens!
Biscuits & gravy
Macaroni and Cheese. I’d love to learn to make it vegan.
Mac n Cheese
Bianca’s roasted okra is my favorite, of course 🙂
red beans and dirty rice with hot and smoky collard greens
Chicken fried tofu, or chicken fried zucchini, I like to binge on the later when I’m having dinner by myself, because the boy won’t touch fried zucchini.
Has to be beans and greens of any sort. With a side of cornbread
Biscuits and gravy! Oh baby is that good.
Definitely corn bread! Altho, I am a sucker for greens and beans!
Greens flavored with vegan ‘meat’ and a big ol’ pot of beans flavored the same way. And a cast iron skillet full of jalapeno cornbread. This book is in my Amazon wishlist. Please please please I want it so bad! I think it would help the final conversion of the not-quite-but-almost-convinced man in the house! Thank you!
Ugh…gravy! And cornbread! Potato salad with olives!!! Too many to choose.
Biscuits and gravy with collard greens! When my Maryland pals found out that I could make them vegan, I became Ms. Popularity.
Another vote for biscuits and gravy.
Definitely biscuits and gravy with a side of fried green tomatoes and grits with hot sauce – yum!
smokey collard greens…yum!
I was born and raised in California, but a couple years ago we decided to have a Southern Vegan Thanksgiving. It Rocked!. The family favorite had to be the Gumbo. Took the recipe from http://www.whatwouldcathyeat.com/2011/04/serious-vegetarian-gumbo/. It was by far the best vegan gumbo I’ve ever made!.
Greens. I love collards!
Collard greens! So yummy!
Biscuits & gravy!
Has to be veganized dirty rice.
I live in super-rural CA, so, I really don’t know anything but faux-southern food. (a reason to get this book on the top of my must-have list, perhaps?)
But, at the end of the summer, I do a lot of fried green tomatoes – in sandwiches, topped with red sauce, plain… I think they’re my favourite.
My favorite southern dish is fried green tomatoes or grits. It’s a tough call!
Fried “chicken,” greens (collards, kale and mustard) with pickles and hot sauce, mac ‘n “cheese” and sweet potato pun!
Deep fried okra and okra soup are yummy too!
Most definitely some good, noochy collard greens!
Hush Puppies!
My favorite southern (or is it just Texan?) dish is a vegan frito pie. Ermahgerd it’s good.
I love french onion soup! That’s a Creole dish, right?
Southern Cooking is awesome! How can I choose my favorite? Cornbread, biscuits, mac and cheese, greens. it’s all good!
My favorite Southern vegan dish is Hoppin’ John especially with cornbread and gravy. Love the mix of my own gluten-free sausage, black-eyed peas and collards. Yum!!!
Cornbread
deep fried tofu!
Cornbread!! I love Southern cooking!!
I love really good faux fried chicken, but as a native Okie, my favorite is veganized chicken fried steak!
As a newcomer to the vegan world my favorite vegan dish is burritos made with tempeh, portabello and other veggies.
Favorite southern dish? Talk about easy question. Biscuits and gravy! I like sausage gravy, but I’ll settle for a simple white gravy, too.
Southern fried seitan, any day of the week!
I’m a simple gal, so I’m happiest with a plate full of collard greens and a side of cornbread!
Greens with a side of black eyed peas.