Tupelo Honey Cafe in Greenville, SC

Great restaurant that I found recently in Greenville SC:

https://tupelohoneycafe.com/location/greenville

   To start off your meal, they bring you their famous "Ginormous Buttermilk Biscuits" with grape jelly and a huge bottle of honey (?).  I quite frankly did not know what to do with that Ginormous bottle of honey...

   The best part about our meal was the waitress.  She let us sample the soups before we had to pick!  Here is the "Cheesy Onion Bisque with Biscuit Croutons" with "When Shrimp Met Taco" 

  Not Your Mama’s Meatloaf » Your Mama never had our local hormone-free, grass-fed beef to make her loaf. But we do. We blend the beef with a little bacon, bake to perfection and top it with our rosemary tomato shallot gravy. Served with scratch-made mac ‘n cheese and fresh asparagus

Hamburger Cupcakes for the Interventional Radiology Staff

The entire month I was on interventional radiology, the IR staff made fun of me for having a "Top 20 Burgers in the Nation" list that I was trying to complete.  So I thought it was fitting to make them 20 cupcakes that were in a shape of a burger.

It is quite a simple recipe.  

The buns are yellow cake baked in a cupcake pan, cut into 3rds (with the middle part taken out and saved for making crumb cake:  http://www.dimasharif.com/2011/10/what-to-do-with-leftover-cakes-top-10.html

The beef patty is Ghirardelli chocolate fudge brownie that was spread thinly on a larger pan (8 by 17 instead of 8 by 8) and cooked for 25 minutes instead of the recommended 45 minutes for the 8 by 8 pan.   Check the doneness of the brownies at 20 minutes and add more time if needed.  I simply cut out the beef patty pieces with a wine glass that had the right diameter.  

The lettuce, ketchup and mustard is simply whipped cream cheese frosting with food coloring in it. I did the poor man version of putting them in zip lock bags and cutting out a small hole to squeeze out the frosting. 

Hint: Make sure to put frosting on the bottom of the beef patty too so it sticks to the bottom bun!

  

 And 2 hours later....