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
Congratulations and best wishes on your 1st anniversary! I stumbled (happily) on to Southern Plate when I was looking for a sweet tea recipe. I love your recipes ( I have to give some thought as to which is my favorite!!!) and the wonderful way you weave your many stories and memories around them for us, your many (grateful) readers! On my first visit to your site, I was immediately brought back to the special times (and food) from summers spent at my grandparents in GA. I live in the North but have strong roots in the South and love all things “southern”!
I’m looking forward to the delivery of the Southern Plate cookbook and am sure to sit down right away and read it cover to cover!
Thank you for the joy you put into all you do!
Bountiful blessings on this anniversary and the MANY to come!!:)
Congrats Mrs.Christy on 1 yr. Your blog is the only reason I check my email I love following along with you in my kitchen each week with something new and exciting for me to make. Your blog is the reason I have a computer in my kitchen so I don’t have to run back and forth thanks so much 🙂
I just received my Southern Plate cookbook in the mail today!!I can’t wait to sit down and enjoy it. Thanks Christy…
ONLY ONE YEAR? I have used so many of your recipies and absolutely love them.
Sorry about using 2 posts………….I often send without finishing.
P. S. Please keep blogging. I love your site.
You have got to be kidding????
Congrats, darlin!
This is my favorite blog of all time since I discovered it about 8 months ago! I’m so happy for you! Here’s to another great year of friends, food and fun!
Smooches,
-Lindsay
I visited my mother a few weeks back and we made your homemade laundry soap while we were together. We both love it!
Your whole site is wonderful. You’ve reminded me of recipes I hadn’t thought about since I was a little girl and shared some that are completely new. I’ve archived many of your recipes to post on my personal cooking blog when I get the chance. I don’t really share the blog with anyone much, but I’ve had a couple visitors. Mostly it’s just my way of keeping all my favorite recipes together in one place so I have access to them no matter where I am. Maybe this holiday weekend will be a good time to get caught up on all those recipes waiting to be posted! 🙂
Keep up the great work Christi! I hope this is just the first of many happy years I spend with you!
*hugs*