About Us
This is my “Mama”. She taught me how to cook, tie my shoes, and say I’m “glistening” instead of “sweating”. She also gave me my heirloom rolling pin which I tend to mention quite often and never pass up a chance to photograph.
Mama has been cooking full blown meals since she was thirteen. For her, it isn’t a meal unless it involves a meat, at least two vegetables, a bread, dessert, and tea.
She is an amazing cook as was evidenced by the extra folks crowding around our dinner table each and every night growing up. Even now, I don’t know a soul who would pass up a chance to eat one of her meals.
Pretty much all of my recipes and definitely my love of cooking, came from her. Mama is helping out with brainstorming, tutorials, and ideas for this site. I do all the web work 
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Hey Everybody! I’m Christy. I come from a family of great southern cooks. People who can take ingredients they have on hand and not just “make do” but make magic at the dinner table. Fresh vegetables, cornmeal batters, our beloved White Lily flour, and tattered hand written recipes are in my blood and in my kitchen.
Armed with these recipes, my HomeEc degree, and Mama and Grandmama on speed dial, I hope to bring a bit of our heritage to you.
We’ve lived in the south all of our lives. Our ancestors were among the first families ever to settle in the Tennessee Valley. It doesn’t get more southern than this. Now go to the grocery store and get cooking!
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on Jul 2 2008. Filed under Misc.
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Hello, I am “Mama”. Christy wanted me to check out this website. I can personally attest to how great a cook she it. While I stick to the tried and true recipes that are mostly in my head, she is great about trying out new recipes and is always finding another one that becomes a regular with our family. For the fourth of July, she is bringing two of her famous Apple Pies! We live on the Tennessee River and are having a big crowd to join us. I hope you have a great 4th and enjoy friends and family. Mama
Hi, Christy and “Mama.” I love your blog and will visit often.
Thank you, Arlene!! I love your blog as well and just added it to my list of favorites! Anyone who is a fan of the “impossible pie” series is after my own heart!
Hello Southern Plate! Your blog is great. I plan to check back in for recipes for your versions of alot of the stuff I grew up on in Georgia, and I make for my family here in Asheville (not too far from you!) I’ve got a business and a blog making southern cakes for weddings and other celebrations (check out “my life in cake”) Its been a little heavy on the “my life” part and not so much the “cake” part lately, but I’ll be posting more recipes soon. meantime, check out my Pineapple upside down cake! I think yall will like it!
xo
jodi
You were absolutely right, I LOVED the pineapple upside down recipe! Wonderful blog and your cakes are gorgeous!! Thank you for visiting, I’ll be visiting you often as well!
Hi Christy,
I just arrived to your blog through a link in Ricky’s blog, and I already love it! I’m an awful cook, but perseverant. All the food in the pictures looks delicious! I hope I can learn a bit from you!
Welcome Gabi! I have been pestering Ricky to put a decent link to my site on his blog, maybe now he will!
I am sure you aren’t an awful cook! If you have any questions at all or special recipe requests, just let me know and I’ll get right on them!
Look forward to you visiting often!
~Christy
Holy buckets, what a great site! I grew up in Anniston and now live in a small town south of Macon. It’s very nice to see some sweet Alabama gals getting some well-deserved attention! My Daddy tells us about the chocolate gravy and biscuits is Pa used to have as a kid. I can’t tell you how much seeing your site takes me home. Thank you so much for the wonderful site and all the work you put into it!
Thank YOU, Benji, for visiting us! I’m glad you like it so far and hope to keep delivering! If you have any special requests or questions, just give us a holler! In the meantime, sit back and stay a spell!! Its good to have you here!
Hi there! I have to say this is by far the best cooking blog I have found. I am just east of you in Va and have pretty much lived her my whole life and am so grateful to find some of your recipes resemble my great grandmothers. Thank you for such a wonderful blog!
Sherri
Sherri: Welcome to Southern Plate! I am so thrilled to have you here!! Thank you for such kind words, I take them all to heart and they do mean so very much to me.
I hope to bring back a bit of our southern past in this blog, so reminding you of your Grandmother is another great compliment. Please do let me know if you ever have any special requests and get comfy, I got lots more to go!
Christy
Love your blog! I am a southern girl, too-Mississippi. I’ll be back to check out your great lookinng reipes!-Lorie
Hi there!
I stumbled across your website while looking for a Cracker Barrel Hashbrown Casserole recipe which turned out fantastic! I love reading your site. I am from Texas and make many of the same dishes you do only I know live in D.C., I too have almost died from the cold weather here…miss/need the sun!! These folks up here have no clue as to what I am making most of the time. I have even had to teach a few how to fold a burrito! Just wanted to say hi and how happy I am to have something to read that sounds like “home”. Yes, I have thrown a fit and wanted to give someone a knuckle sandwhich, ha!
Happy holidays to yamaman’em
Amber