Disclaimer #1: This post was meant in humor, y’all need to know that upfront. I ran it by several of the wonderful men who read Southern Plate to make sure they would take it that way as well and it passed with flying colors. I think men have a much greater sense of humor than [...]
Growing up, I loved hamburger night at my house. Mama made thick, juicy burgers in a skillet and served them with big ol’ french fries and enough ketchup to drown the whole shabang in. Alright, so I was the one adding the flood of ketchup but it set the whole meal off perfectly in my [...]
The first time I ever made Zucchini bread was on July 5, 1999. I put it in the oven around 8:05 PM. Around 8:10 my son decided he was ready to be born. My first thought was “BUT I JUST PUT ZUCCHINI BREAD IN THE OVEN!”. After a frantic phone call to Mama (who we lived just across from the street at the time), I left for the hospital confident that my bread would be taken out of the oven when the timer was up. About seventeen hours later I was treated to my first taste – and boy was I hungry by then!
Chocolate Velvet Cake With Cream Cheese Icing (And why you are a good Mama if your cake is ugly) Ingredients1 Box any flavor of chocolate cake mix (I use Duncan Hines) 1 Cup sour cream 1/2 Cup milk 1/4 Cup oil 3 eggs 1-2 tsp butter flavoring (can substitute vanilla) 1 cup chocolate chips 2 [...]
I’m gonna warn y’all up front that this recipe is a bit on the high maintenance side. Now any of you who know me know this is not my norm. I don’t have the time or the attention span to dilly dally over something I’m gonna put on the table. It has nothing to do [...]
Congratulations to Micha for winning the random drawing in the $500 giveaway! Thank you all for participating and thanks to random.org for giving me a means of picking a random winner! Mimi, I’m sending you an email with instructions on how to get your address to me! Thank you, Crystal light! I’ve had a GREAT [...]
This is a recipe that is always considered a treat at my house, met with the same zeal as a dessert even though it is just a bread. A variation on my Mama’s hoe cake, she often mixed up the same batter and made drop biscuits instead. When I first served hoe cake to my [...]
I’m not a big seafood person. Beyond fried catfish, I have never even given seafood a fighting chance. We never had it in our home and I’ve never ordered it at a restaurant. The reasoning for this is really a simple one: Other than catfish, my mother was not a seafood person. When your mama [...]
Life isn’t slowing down for anyone. My own life seems to have the fast forward button permanently pushed in and with trying to keep up with work, my house, and the ever blossoming social life of my kids, most mornings it seems like my day has started without me and I have to hit the [...]
Today I thought I’d invite you into my kitchen and home here at Bountiful. There are so many of my personal treasures that I want to share with you and I am honored that you are taking the time to allow me to. Bountiful has been a wonderful dream come true for all of us [...]
And now for the basket… This is the 2009 Bountiful Basket that I had made to celebrate Southern Plate’s one year anniversary. It is entirely handmade by the American Traditions Basket Company in Canal Fulton, Ohio from Hard Maple trees that are harvested in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. It has a custom engraved brass plate [...]
I don’t get to brag on my readers enough but let me tell you, y’all are some brilliant people. You are also some of the absolute nicest folks I’ve ever had a chance to know and seeing you gathering around my virtual front porch here on Southern Plate has been one of the most fulfilling [...]
My first thoughts when getting ready to write this post were “They’re gonna think I am weird”. But honestly, if you are just now figuring that out about me, we got us one Jim Dandy of a learning curve here. Just about all Southerners are weird (the good ones at least). Where else do folks [...]
Congratulations to Mattfam, Kevin, and David, our winners in this giveaway! I have sent a personal email with instructions to each winner with the subject line “Personal email from Christy, you won!”. Thank you for participating and stay tuned for more great giveaways! Gratefully, Christy Most of you know that I LOVE my coffee! The [...]
My mother made the most delicious freezer jam when we were little. It was a tradition at our house that everyone had to have freezer jam whenever she made her homemade sourdough bread. Sometimes we’d toast the bread and sometimes we’d just slather it on while it was still warm from the oven. A good, [...]
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