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Archive for: November, 2008

S’Mores Kits – Great Gift For Classmates – From Guest Bloggers Brady & Katy!

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While I dig in to do several tutorials today, two guest bloggers are here to bring you a great and inexpensive gift idea for classmates, young children, or even a thoughtful little gift for coworkers and neighbors! Even the youngest child can help put together these great treats and hand them out with pride, knowing [...]

Overnight Turkey (Easy, Delicious, and Always Moist!)

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Many of us are getting ready for our big dinner tomorrow and most of those will be starring our favorite bird! I thought y’all might be interested in how we cook our turkey. Mama actually took photographs of doing this for this post, but she high tailed it off to Gatlinburg and forgot to send [...]

Southern Plate Recipes For Thanksgiving AND Your Leftover Turkey!

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Perfect Pecan Pie (Guaranteed not to be pecan soup!) With just two days until Thanksgiving, I thought I’d give y’all some last minute ideas by showing you Southern Plate recipes which will definitely be on our Thanksgiving table this year! We have an obscene amount of food but every family goes home with plenty of [...]

Holiday Fruit Salad (My favorite thing in the world to eat!!)

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Alright, I know I always tell you how much I love everything I post here. Well, I decided when I started Southern Plate that if I didn’t love a recipe, I just wouldn’t post it. So I am always telling the truth when I go on and on about how good something is. This is [...]

Pecan Pie Muffin Mix : Holiday Gift Mixes Continue!

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These pecan pie muffins have been a huge hit on Southern Plate. I’ve had so many readers email me singing their praises that I thought they’d make the ideal gift mix for the holidays! For this packaging, I went for a more “retail” type look and had a good bit of fun making the tags! [...]

Cheesy Chicken and Corn Casserole

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Have y’all ever tried to make a casserole look pretty? Unlike with me, the answer is probably “no”. Well folks, since starting Southern Plate, I have tried on more than one occasion to bring out the super model in a pile of pasta and cheese and I’m here to tell ya it just ain’t happenin! [...]

Homemade Caramel Corn Fights Thanksgiving Munchies!

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I don’t know how Thanksgiving works with your family but I imagine it is somewhat similar to how it works with mine. Siblings, spouses, kidders, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, and anyone else who happens to want a good meal that day gathers at my mother’s house. Most of us come in toting various dishes full of [...]

Guest Blogger: Mama Belle’s Guide to Gumbo … Do it the lazy way!

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Today we have a wonderful guest blogger, Mama Belle! Mama Belle has the most delightful blog called Bayou Belles And Their Beau, and I find myself sneaking over there quite often to peep into her life. I love her writing style and her humor – so y’all know I had to try her food! She [...]

Regarding The Changes To The Southern Plate Website (Just hang in there for a few days!)

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*update 11-18-08 7:30 AM: We implemented the new template last night and now just have some tweaking to do and a few more features to add! It’ll continually get more organized over the next few days! Hope you love it as much as we do! After a little email feedback I felt I needed to [...]

Save Money AND Give Better Gifts! Fruit Crisp Mix

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This year we all seem to be feeling or at least dreading the crunch on our wallets more than ever. Whether its fear of job security, more payments than usual, or a simple lack of money, one thing is clear : This is not what Christmas is supposed to be about. Christmas is about family, [...]

Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Streusel (You’re not going to believe what the ingredients are!)

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I don’t know if pumpkin is a southern thing. You always hear of pumpkin pie on Southern tables at Thanksgiving and such, but no one in my family has ever made a pumpkin pie to my knowledge. I had never tasted anything at all with pumpkin until about three years ago. While on a quilting [...]

Chewy Sugar Cookies and KING ARTHUR FLOUR GIVEAWAY!

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Christmas seems to get more and more hectic each year when you have a family. Shopping, decorating, lists, baking, Christmas cards, wrapping, watching your budget, crafting, and all of the other little things we do to make the season special for our families. While our kids and spouses get to sit back and enjoy the [...]

Bama Steak Sandwiches (So very EASY)

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I have so many things photographed and ready to bring you that my mind is reeling with what to do first! Today I decided to bring you a super quick and easy recipe to give us all a break during the rushed holiday season. Can you believe, after all you do, your family STILL expects [...]

Southern Plate Celebrates 100 Recipes With Link Love!

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100 Recipes!!! Its hard to believe that my next recipe post will be the 100th recipe post on Southern Plate! This calls for a celebration! Since the beginning, you’ve all be so encouraging and wonderful to me, I truly don’t know how I got so lucky to have such amazingly generous and kind people reading [...]

Perfect Pecan Pie (Guaranteed not to be Pecan Soup!)

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Perfect Pecan Pie Ingredients3 eggs 1 C sugar 1/2 C White Corn Syrup 3/4 stick margarine, melted 1 C chopped pecans 1 unbaked pie shellInstructionsIn a medium bowl, beat eggs. Blend in the sugar. Stir in remaining ingredients, mixing well. Pour in pie shell and place in cold oven. Turn oven to 300 degrees. Bake [...]

Jeff Cook’s Butter Pecan Muffins

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These are delicious. They taste very butterscotchey, buttery, and pecany. Jeff was right, I would have never had a clue what the secret ingredient was, much less how easy they were to make!

Mexican Wedding Cookies

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Mexican Wedding Cookies Ingredients1/2 C Vegetable Shortening 1/4 C water 1 egg white 1 box white cake mix 1/2 C chopped nuts (optional) 1/2 C mini semi sweet chocolate chips confectioner’s sugarInstructionsPreheat oven to 375. Mix shortening, water, vanilla, and egg white thoroughly. Mix in cake mix, nuts, and chocolate chips until dough holds together. [...]

Southern Plate Newsletter November 2

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UPDATE 2011: Please note that this newsletter was written in 2008 and contains a lot of outdated information. I’m leaving it up here for those who are going back to read SouthernPlate.com in the order it was written. Have a great day! Gratefully, Christy 1. Southern Plate Is Getting Around! 2. Whats coming up on [...]

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