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
those graham cracker sandwiches would be great for a picinic and family gatherings has the chocolate that kids and adults love the same and not a lot of the sugar which the adults like defenitley be one for me to try thanks for all the good recipes u give
Hi Christy, I’m a twin and July 3rd was our birthday. This year I made your “Chocolate Sundae Cake” and it was the hit of the day! Thanks!!!
Thank you all so much for the comments, kindness, and links!!! We went out of town for the fourth but I had such a wonderful weekend reading all of these! I hope to be able to respond to as many as possible over the next few days!
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
I hope I didn’t miss the block party. We had them when I lived in south Louisiana and the kids were kids. What fun to bring a covered dish and close the street for some good neighborhood fun. We were truly making memories.
Donna
Thanks and Congratulations on your Anniversary! Anytime I am at a luncheon or meeting with friends and recipes are discussed (often), I always tell them to check your wonderful website…….especially for new or inexperienced cooks who would benefit from your explicit lists and pictures! Keep up the good work! I feel like a one-man public relations firm!
Congrats on your ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! I truly love SOUTHERN PLATE and all of your hard work and dedication. I live in Alabama and love to give my support to a Southern gal. The day that I ran across your website I forwarded it to all of my friends. I have a friend that called me the other day and was like I am not close to my computer so can you give me the recipe for the cheesy chicken corn casserole that you make. I was tickled to death to know that she loved the casserole so much that she wanted to make it herself. Keep up the hard work……we all truly appreciate it!
Golly…..congratulations on such a successful year. What a blessing it is to read your post all the time…and I look forward to many more years of joyful reading!!!