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
I just love all your recipes. Thank you for your hard work and sharing all of your wonderful memories. You are a true southern girl that shares her love of family and cooking.
Okay, so I love the Hoe Cake recipe! I cannot make homemade buttermilk biscuits very well at all! In fact, my husband makes better ones then I do. He grew up with very traditional southern food, so it has been nice to come to this website and learn how to cook some of them. While my husband does not care for the Hoe Cake, he will at least eat it and it ALWAYS turns out DELICIOUS!! I love the crunchy outside, but melt in your mouth inside :-). Thanks Christy for this wonderful website!!!
I absolutely love all of the recipes that I have had a chance to try so far, but my ultimate favorite is the peanut butter brownies with the peanut butter fudge icing!!!! Oh my!! They are so wonderful. I made them for a family function a few weeks ago and have been getting requests for them almost daily now. Thank you so much for sharing with everyone and Congratulations!!!
Christy,
Congrats to you for all of your hard work and dedication. I stumbled onto your site by accident,(I was looking for a recipe) and your link popped up! Well when it said “Southern” I was all over that; being from the south and all. I forwarded your link to my friends and sisters and we all have truly enjoyed your recipes and stories. All of which bring back wonderful memories of my grandmother and mom. Your recipes are to die for and I’m hooked on the laundry detergent recipe. I’ve given samples to friends and my boss who is now making it too. Keep the recipes and stories coming!
Vicki
WHoo Hooo!!! One year! Congratulations! I just wished I had found your earlier. I have only been reading for a couple of months, but have enjoyed it every day. Your are truly blessed.
Julie
Okay, I began reading all the comments and ya’ll made me cry. I am relatively new to Southern Plate but instantly I knew it was something special and unique. Southern Plate really brought me back to my Southern roots- especially since I am out in California missing all the fun(lightning bugs, whipper wills, beautiful country, family oriented, Christian based, incredible food, thunderstorms, and the list goes on!).
Christy, you are a treasure because you bring it all alive on your page. I do feel as if I am right back there and can hear the whipper wills, see the kids peeking in to see when it will be ready, and smell the incredible food cooking! What you share about you, your family, and the times you have is priceless.
Thank you so much for letting the world into your world.
Thanks!
Emily
Christy,
I read your site EVERY DAY but have never commented. I do have one item I’d like to make a comment about. Mayor Dan’s column that you printed quite a while ago talking about his growing up years and his Mama’s cooking. He talked about “that round pedestal table where my big brother, my little sister, and I ate the best food in the world.” Well, I want you to know that I am his “little sister” and I still have that round pedestal oak table in my kitchen. We(Dan’s family and mine) have eaten around that table many, many times since I married years ago, and we still do! And everytime I sit down to that dear old table that my Daddy’s mama bought probably about 100 years ago from a friend “for 50 cents and a peck of peas”, I think about my Mama and Daddy, Bobby, Dan and me around that table and the wonderful memories flood my soul!
Thanks for the great recipes!