I’m getting ready for Apple Week this weekend, preparing some last minute apple recipe tutorials and getting posts written up and queued for this and my other blog for al.com, so we’re having a bit …

This morning I closed the comments and added the number of comments up with the number of emailed recipes I received. The total number was 176. I think went to www.random.org and had the …

If you’re familiar with Coca Cola cake, just seeing the title had you scrolling down to make sure you had the ingredients to make it today. If you’re not familiar with Coca Cola cake, allow …

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About two years ago, I had an opportunity to visit Canada. I had a wonderful time, met some great people, had delicious food, and learned two things about Canadians.
One is that they are very nice …

I wanted to dedicate a post to dishing out all of the gratitude I have for each and every person who reads Southern Plate. I love all of your comments and emails and the feedback …

I am a morning person. I love to get up early, especially while everyone else is still asleep. I slip into the kitchen and put the coffee on, then pour some into my favorite cup …

What do Southerners love more than their Mamas and their biscuits? Good things to put on our biscuits, of course!!! We top these light and fluffy creations with numerous things. Molasses, honey, chocolate gravy, fresh …

In my family, if you die, get sick, have a car accident, have a baby, have a potluck, have a family reunion, have a picnic, get bad news, get hungry, or get last minute dinner …

Athens, Alabama is one of those rare close knit communities full of folks always happy to make room for one (or one hundred) more at the dinner table.
Despite the ever growing population and expanding enterprise …

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I was up at five thirty this morning doing a tutorial for Apple Week.
Note to self: No more tutorials before seven a.m.!
Just wait til you see it, i didn’t realize how asleep I was until …

You know how its a good thing children are so cute at times because it keeps you from killing them in their developing years? There are times when a parent needs a little insurance as …

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Warning: I think I hit more tangents than usual in this post. Recipe is at the bottom if you wanna skip through the interesting tidbits about my family, negative people, my dish envy, …

This post is dedicated to Su, one of my readers from Australia. Su and her mother are coming to the South US this fall just to go visit Graceland! Her mother is a huge Elvis …

Around this time of year most Southerners are suffering from a common affliction: Abundance of tomatoes.
If you aren’t suffering from this, chances are one of your neighbors has the affliction and therefore the outcome is …

I have the winners of the Country Bob’s Cookbooks!

I used this nifty little website to choose two numbers at random between 1 and 39 (the number of comments). Then, I took a really cruddy quality …

I love how my grandmother says Italian. God love her, she has never known how to pronounce that word. Instead, it comes out “Eye-talian”, as in “That Eye-talian food sure is good!”.
Well, this is one …

From time to time, I like to post little tidbits and hints for all of y’all wonderful people who are kind enough to read my blog. This one has been quite handy for me and …

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This was one of my mom’s weekly dishes growing up. They are so good! Our friends would hear we were having chicken planks and conspicuously hang around our house until Mama called us in for …

I’ve been laughing a lot lately - at myself. So many things I am doing differently, such odd behavior, all because of my food blog. I keep compiling a list in my head and have …

Today was my son’s first day of third grade. He has a fabulous teacher in a fabulous school so there were no qualms about summer ending at this house! Of course, my readers don’t have …