Southern Plate Celebrates 1 Year With A Block Party!
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 and yours must be very proud!
Congrats to you!
I truly do not know how you can be a full time mom and cook, move, clean, write a cook book and blog-you are amazing!
My fav recipe would have to be your chicken and dumplings!!!! Love it, the kids request it and I love carbs-very very bad habit cause I can’t stop myself when I eat those dumplings!
Christy,
So many of your recipes are exactly the way I have cooked for years, but thanks to your efforts, I now bonafide recipes that can be shared!!! (Of course I will give you credit!)
I am so glad I found your site about 6 months ago. I have 2 sisters and they love your site too, because you are “like us” ~smiles and winks~.
“Another sister” in Tennessee,
Deborah
I just want to say that I don’t have a favorite recipe, but everyone I’ve tried has been delicious. I’ve even served a couple to my mother-in-law and she has been impressed – that’s a pretty big accomplishment. Seriously, I love this site and want to wish you a happy anniversary!
Congratulations girl, Im just so happy for you and all of your accomplishments in just 1 year. I have been a faithful follower for at least 9 of those 12 months… Your recipes are truly heartfelt, and come from a long line of great southern cooks. Being from Athens, myself, I too know many of them, but you throw in a few that I either forgot about or have never tried….. Thanks to you, you are bringing back my roots!… Hats off to you Christy, Keep up the great work.
Since I found your site and signed up for your newsletter I look forward each day to seeing what you have put up next! Your style of cooking is what I grew up on in Prattville Alabama. I too love your humor and the stories you tell. I am now living in yankee land, Indiana and have been cooking and giving your recipe’s to friends here as well as giving them your web site. They love it!!!
Keep it up and may the next year be as gratifying for you as the first one has. Can’t waittttt to see what this next year is gonna bring us..
Christy, I made a pot of chicken stew for supper tonight and it is almost gone already! I have tried quite a few of the other recipes too and can’t think of one I tried that wasn’t a hit and made again. The stories you tell about family bring to mind stories of my own family that I had not recalled in a while and probably wouldn’t have without prompting. Congratulations – I thank you for sharing! Kathy
I am so glad I found this site.I am hooked! I love your recipes, your sense of humor,and your down to earthness You can tell you love to do this. Happy Anniversary and keep up the good work.