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
Congratulations on the year anniversary of Southern Plate. I know how hard you have worked to make it a success. I have made so many of your recipes I don’t know where to begin. I guess my favorite would have to be the chilli skillet bake. Miss you in the neighborhood….and the delicious samples you would run by the house. We’ll have to catch up at Starbuck’s soon. See you at Brady’s party. ☺ Laura
I found SP one day not sure how long ago. I am hooked on it. Christy you have such a way of making cooking so simple yet still southern.
Happy Anniversary and is there a house near you for sale I would love to be a neighbor. You know taste tester like the kids.
God has great things in store for you.
Christy, I think it’s more like a Birthday than an Anniversary….
for we all are growing with you. Sure hope we all age gracefully. lol
Here’s to many many more Birthdays…Happy 1st Birthday!!!!
Christy –
Congratulations on your One Year Anniversary!!! I had found your website a few months ago from SouthernSavers.com’s site. I have truly enjoyed all of your recipes and stories – feel like I know you as a good friend. I have passed your site to several co-workers who are all followers now.
Thank you for all of your work. Again, congrats for One Year.
Love – Tammy
Hello Christy, I never never never comment on blogs, but I love your website so much, I wanted to wish you a happy anniversary! I first heard about your site on my friend’s blog, DomesticCents. I am a true southern girl, from coastal Mississippi, but now live WAY up north, so for me, reading your recipes and stories makes me feel closer to home and to mama and granny! Best wishes for continued success!
Christy,
Congratulation with 1 year. You have done a awesome job with your cook book and this fabulous site. I will always be you thankful for all those wonderful hours in the kitchen with Melissa you have inspired with you recipes.
Lars
Hi Christy,
Congratulations on your one year birthday on Southern Plate!I can’t wait until you publish more recipes on your website!
Love,
Melissa
I love to keep up on your tangents and your recipes..even on facebook too! I am “Up north” in Indiana, but am a southerner at heart. Keep up the wonderful work!!!