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
Oh my goodness, I just realized how that might sound. Nothing against the South!!!! 🙂 I didn’t mean it like that! lol
Yay to Christy and SouthernPlate!!!!
A year goes so fast, I found SP in August just before my birthday when googling for a frosting recipe Google sent me to your peanut butter icing.
You know I am travelling through parts of the South later this year and honestly, you and SP have made me much more excited than I originally was. At first I thought “Ohhhhh…..can’t I just spend a few days in the South and then go somewhere else?” but now I’m so excited! I can’t wait for the REAL sweet tea, BBQ, biscuits and more! I said to my brother the other week “When I’m in away I’m going to eat catfish!” and I don’t even know if you eat catfish Christy, but I heard it on TV so you know…. 😉
He gave me this funny look and said “You already do eat catfish, it’s called cobbler” 🙁 I don’t know if he’s right or not….
I bought a big hunk of beef to roast in the slow cooker over the weekend. I hope it turns out as good as yours, even though you made it with pork.
Here’s to much more success!
Catfish… cobbler… *scratches head trying to figure out the connection*
Definitely two very, very different things around these parts!
I really don’t know, that’s what my brother told me. He said they have the whiskers like catfish. But I do know we have different names to fish over here to what you may call them. So possibly?
I googled it and it looks like they’re the same family.
Su, I’m on the road but soon as I get back I’m doing a catfish tutorial for you!
Catfish is the only “seafood” I eat! Lol
pond raised only, our river is a bit too polluted I’m afraid!
Hey, you know WAY more about the South than I know about Australia !
CJ
Eh? What’s the date?
Hey Christy!!!!!! Congrats I cant believe a year has already passed by. As you know Southern Plate was my first real blogging buddy out there in Blogepher!!!! You are still my #1 favorite blog friend and SP is still my favorite site. I have included my links above for all the Southern Plate Classics I have made. I can only say one thing about all the Mr. Linky Entries…………….. Can you say SP Stalker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant believe there were so many recipes until I started listing them. I left off a few I did not want people to think i was off my rocker crazy. Southern Plates Cookbook is in my special Cookbook Collection in my Hutch girl! and those are only for my faves!!! LOL you know I love you and Southern Plate we Southern Girls gotta stick together. I only hope one day i am in Athens so I can pay you a visit we would have so much fun just eating, cooking and talking. ((Hugs))
Feeding the whole world with banana puddin’…. that’s a wonderful thought!! YUM!!!
I found your blog at the end of 2008 while looking for a recipe for Butterfinger Cake. I am an Alabama girl, born & raised. But *my* mama wasn’t an enthusiastic cook. When she does choose to cook, it’s always good, but she just doesn’t like to do it. Soooo … I didn’t get a good solid cooking foundation as a girl, but with the help of your blog & cookbook I’m making up for it now!
I’ve made your grilled chicken tenderloins, deep dish pizza, meatloaf, crockpot lasagna, spaghetti sauce, Meme’s mashed potatoes, doughnuts, simple pound cake, lemon meringue pie, marble cheesecake brownies, coconut cake, good’n’easy apple cake, chocolate velvet cake, butterfinger cake … I listed all these so you can see that I’ve really tried alot of your recipes! My absolute favorites are your sloppy joes (the family loves it), the coconut cake where you tell about your mama’s car accident (makes the house smell awesome!), and the chocolate frosting recipe (getting tons of mileage out of this one). Next on my list is the banana crumb cake, chocolate sundae cake, & sweet-n-sour green beans!
I’m hoping my kids will have many memories of good food, helping mama cook, and just hanging out in the kitchen.
Also, I bought one of those little flip recorders after I saw how good yours did on the California trip. Love it!
I said coconut cake above, but it’s the coconut pie that makes our house smell divine! I made one for a church function a while back and asked my husband if he wanted me to make one for us to eat. He said no, that’s ok. Well I thought I was going to have to beat him off with a stick when we started smelling the pie. Really, I was lucky to have gotten it to church without a piece missing.
http://brittainy412.blogspot.com/2009/04/strawberry-pie-and-parenting.html
Here ya go, here is my Southern plate random chatter.
I haven’t written too much lately, been busy, but that’s ok!
I can’t believe its been a year, I have been reading the blog most of it. I am so Happy for you Christy!