There’s that old saying about chips: You can’t eat just one.

Now take a chip and dunk it into Mike Falcone’s Hot and Honey Baked Buffalo Chicken Dip and you definitely won’t be able to eat just one. You’ll also taste why he was crowned the grand-prize winner in the 2016 Times News Cookbook and Recipe Contest.Want the recipe? Falcone’s and dozens more will be featured in the 29th annual Recipes From Our Readers cookbook, which will be included in Thursday’s edition of the Times News.Falcone was chosen this year’s winner Oct. 11 after having won first place in the Appetizer Category. He and the other five winners brought their winning dishes to the Times News office in Mahoning Township where a panel of judges sampled each dish and awarded the grand prize to Falcone.“Honestly, I was surprised I won,” said Falcone. “I knew there were a lot of good dishes here with experienced cooks, and I was surprised that mine was chosen over their dishes.”Falcone is certainly right about the “good dishes” and “experienced cooks.”Four of the other first-place category winners are previous contest winners. And as they arrived for the cook-off with their prepared entries, mouths were watering all over the newsroom.In addition to Falcone, other category winners include:• Shirley Leinthall, Main Dish: Baked Potato Soup• Peggy Zimmerman, Salads, Sides, Vegetables: Pineapple Turkey Pasta Salad• Carol Kester, Desserts: Orange Cranberry Pumpkin Loaf with Cinnamon Whipped Cream• Melissa Bierman, Health Conscious: Chocolate Banana Muffins• JoLynn Gazo, Cooking with Kids: French Toast Roll-UpsJudges this year were Terry Shaner of Pappy’s Schoolhouse Restaurant and Tavern; Caitlin Moyer of Cindy’s Deli; and last year’s grand-prize winner, Vicky Unitis.Falcone, 30, is a 2004 graduate of Palmerton Area High School. Although he hasn’t been cooking for all that long, he enjoys it, especially grilling.He explains that his winning recipe came about because he and his family, parents Mike and Thomasine Falcone of Palmerton, brother Matt of Jersey City, and fiancee Liz Demko, enjoy hot and honey wings.“I figured I would try a hot and honey dip.”While the family enjoyed it, the true test came one Thanksgiving when several members of Falcone’s brother’s college football team came for the holiday and scarfed down Falcone’s creation.“It was a big hit with them as well,” he said.Falcone currently lives in Hellertown. He earned his undergraduate degree from East Stroudsburg University. He earned a master’s in instructional technology through Wilkes University. He teaches health and phys ed to students in grades five through eight in the Wilson Area School District.The grand prize awarded to Falcone was an overnight stay at the Stone Lake Inn in Saylorsburg.Other prizes to category winners included gift certificates from: Jingle Bells, Jim Thorpe; True Spa, Palmerton; Country Cottage, Jim Thorpe; Thomson’s Meat Market, Walnutport; Jim Thorpe Market; Kinsley’s ShopRite, Brodheadsville; Country Harvest, Palmerton; Muggles Mugs, Jim Thorpe; Bone Fish Grill, Allentown; and the Blue Monkey Sports Bar, Catasauqua.