Southern Plate Celebrates 1 Year With A Block Party!
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July marks the one year anniversary of SouthernPlate.com and I want to thank you so much for all that you have given me! Southern Plate began as a hobby when I had a little free blog and decided to post some recipes, which then made the front page of the host site. I told my husband one day, “I bet if I got my own domain I could get five hundred readers!”.
During our First Year SouthernPlate.com received:
Over 18 Million Page views
Over 11,557 Comments
Woohoo!!! Do you know what this means? We’re all one step closer to my goal of feeding the ENTIRE WORLD homemade banana pudding! World Peace is close at hand, I’m tellin’ ya! Here are a few other accomplishments from the past year.
- Began writing weekly food column for Athens Courier
- Asked to blog for AL.com, Alabama’s largest website
- Became Southern Foods Expert for The FOOD Mag, with Southern Plate recipes featured on their website as well as in upcoming issues.
- Kraft Singles sent me to L.A. to help promote the Grilled Cheese Invitational (Limos all the way!)
- Invited to be a guest on the Darla Shine Show (The fastest-growing syndicated talk show in the US) twice!
- Sponsored by Hamilton Beach, Pioneer Brand, Wilton, Southern Beauty Magazine, and others!
- Became a member of the RGN and Divine Caroline Network
- Twitter Following topped 4000+!
- Over ten thousand email and RSS subscribers
- And many awards and honors I earned over the years.
Just this past month alone, SouthernPlate.com had almost three million page views!
To Celebrate We’re Having A Block Party!
To Celebrate We’re Having A Block Party!One of the things that thrills me to death is reading about Southern Plate or how folks are enjoying the recipes (and ramblings) on your blogs. To celebrate Southern Plate’s One Year Anniversary, I wanted to give us all a chance to visit with our neighbors and get to know each other better.
If you’ve blogged about Southern Plate (Whether it was a recipe or in general), join my block party! Please use Mr. Linky below to enter in your blog’s name and the url of your post so we can all come pay you a visit! If you’ve blogged multiple times, make multiple entries so we can come see them all! I’ll leave this up as the headline this month (and mention it often in my posts!) so everyone can take their time, mingle, and visit at their own pace!
Don’t have a blog? You can still join in on the party by leaving a comment below! Feel free to chat away on this thread. I have a few upcoming top ten lists for Southern Plate and I’d love to know what your favorite recipe and/or tangent on SouthernPlate.com has been! Or just comment below as a way of signing my virtual Anniversary card!
I am so very grateful to everyone. I know I say that a lot but I think it far more often than I say it so consider yourself lucky!
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
P.S. If I wake up tomorrow and find none of this really happened, it sure was a wonderful dream! 😀
Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You’ve come a long way baby!! Congrats to you Christy and wishing you many many more years doing what you love to do.
Dear Christy,
Congratualtions on touching over eighteen million people in just one year!! That’s a staggering number!
Oprah has won the hearts and respect of TV Land and you have of Blog Land! I wish you every continued success and a world of blessings as you brighten our days with your sincere and unbrideled passion for finding the kindness, goodness and fun in life, and for tickling our tummies with yummy foods that feed our family with delcious foods and the making of our own family memories!
Thank you for pouring your time, talent, love and energy into every post! You’re insipiring and amazing!
Blessings to you and your sweet family! Here’s toasting your continued and future success!
Cheers,
Maralee
Hi Christie!
Congratulations on your first year! I really enjoy your recipes as I married a Southern guy but never met his Momma! Oh boy, have I had a long learning curve!
One favor please, do you have a recipe for custard? The kind that is not too thin and not too thick? I have made every recipe but have not found one that is quite like what he remembers that his Momma used to make. 🙁
Love the recipes, love the ease of use, love the sense of humor. Keep those excellent recipes coming, and congratulations on your first year. Looking forward to receiving your cookbook and spending time devouring it. Oh wait, I better make some of the recipes and devour them instead. Best wishes for another wonderful year of success. ~Judy
You make me laugh! I love your tangents the most! I was raised in Limestone Co and feel like I must know you because we have lived the same life in many ways! My favorite post has been about going on vacation in the pickup truck with a mattress in the back!! Fond memories! I love how you can put my memories into words and make them cool!
Christy,
I just love all your recipes (especially the sweets and the iced coffee), but your tangents are the best! I love reading about your vintage dishes and glasses and the meaning behind them. Keep writing, please.
By the way, I received your cookbook yesterday, and it is filled with good stuff. Thanks a million:-)
Christy! I love your site and I just got my copy of your cookbook yesterday in the mail and could not put it down. It brings back so many memories of my own family (I guess us southern girls are a lot a like)! I had forgotten about the fire and ice salad that my mother use to serve every year when the garden would come in and I made it for her this year and we talked about all the happy memories of my growing up in a wonderful, Christian Southern Home and how proud my dad always was of his garden. (He passed away this past September.) Thank you for the memories and for all the dedication you put in to all you do. Happy Independence Day! Love ya’ll!