Christy’s Q&A With You
I had a lot of fun this past weekend when I got a wild hair and decided to see if any of our Facebook Family members had questions they’d like me to answer. I then did a series of live videos answering them and posted them all on Facebook. Y’all were so sweet in your responses so I thought I’d post them here as well, in case anyone else was curious!
This ended up being a LOT of fun for me! There are five videos total and I put a summary below each one of what questions I answered.
The one recipe that I’ve never been able to find, my kitchen staples, Poke Sallet, best recipes for cooking with preschool aged children.
Mama answers one of your questions! What is my dream job?
Plans for Southern Plate, suggestions for stocking your pantry, what I have on hand at all times, substituting Splenda.
How I store my dry goods, my favorite coating for fried fish, School lunch ideas, and the story of how I met my husband. 
Advice for cooking for just one, using lard, my preferred shortening, advice on whether it is best to self publish a cookbook or go with a publisher, Would you ever consider doing a cookbook featuring crock pot meals?
Information about how I made my canister set, more on the shortening that I love, and the Southern Plate Basket.
I really had fun doing these videos and getting to chat with y’all! I’m very much a people person (big shocker there) and the interaction here felt like we were visiting with each other. I’d love to do this again so keep your eye on my Facebook page and next time I get a chance I’ll open it up for questions again and post more live video answers!
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Comments from the Southern Plate Facebook Page:
Mary -…love the video answers
Cilla -great video christy
Kathie – Hi Christy, I haven’t commented here before but have to tell you that I love your site. My favorite part (besides all the funny stories) is how you show a picture of all the ingredients for a recipe gathered together first and then photograph each step of the recipe. Do you plan to put this much detail into your cookbook? Thanks so much for being such a caring, sharing lady!
Barbara- I love this concept of you answering questions! Even though I didn’t post a question I was interested in knowing the answers to those that did! Thank you!
Karen – Love it Love it Love it…..
Su – Did you get a new hair style Christy?
Wanda – What a wonderful Southern Lady you are! I enjoyed these!
Bill – Awww.. I feel so important lol. Good job sis.
Michele – Love your website and recipes… already preordered your book. And the video series compliements your style.
Jackie – Christy: It was an honor to have you answer my question!! You just made my Sunday ;D
Melissa – I would so like to see all of your kitchen stuff. I like seeing what others have and might work for me. Oh please share…please!
Karen – OMG…it only figures that you would meet your hubby via the internet…The worldwide web has blessed you many times over…
Karen – I met my husband at a radio station…KCLV in Clovis NM….you know how they do those contest…”Be caller #7 and win a 2 passes to play Fun Putt”…Well I was lucky #7…He was the Disc Jockey that I had won the passes from….and….29 years later….He still rocks my world….LOL…~she says blushing~
Mary -Guess what Christy?? I met my hubby Don the same way!!!!! Cept I forgot to bake brownies hehee. I got flowers & he got me
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Ellen- OMG…Karen Branscum-I used to live one street over from Fun Putt. My friends & I would jump the fence late at night and bring our own clubs & balls & play, lol CHS class of ’80!
Susie – I met my hubby online too.
Lynn – So did I..and my sis met her fiance online too and so did my cousin, and I am hoping my Dad meets a nice lady online…the last one he dated that he met online was not a very nice person and I am sooo glad she is gone and he’s looking again ♥
Debbie – lol Damn girl, can you be any more cute and down to earth??? Love your story about meeting your hubby. It had me smiling from ear to ear.
Nan – I met my hubby in an aol chatroom also
Danie – Thanks for sharing how you meet your hubby! I enjoyed it
Betty – Hey…..I think I will go to a chatroom….LOL yeah , right!!!!
Cilla – Great video Christy
Brenda – I love your videos and your website. You are adorable!!!
Leyla – Love these videos!! Thanks for doing them!
Karen – Nothing better than a nice chat with my Favorite Foodie Friend…on a quiet Sunday afternoon….~she says with a fulfilling smile on her face~
Amanda – LOVE these videos!
Darlene – I love your videos! It’s like sitting down at your table for a little chat!
Su -We all say slow cooker here! I had to google that crock pot and slow cooker were the same thing when I first heard the term crock pot.
Debie – Yep……We do love the videos!!
Amanda- Christy, You are just to stinkin’ cute! Love your videos! I am so gonna try that with the cannisters! Thanks for the idea!
Mary-Come baackkkkkkk I miss ya’ll!!! heheeeee You’re just soo cutesy tootsys! Looks behind Christy for a bisquit….
Did you come back yet?? I see youuuuuuuuuu
Jill – I love your canisters too! I was lookin’ for an idea for my mom…She is SO tired of tupperware and what she has got!!!! She’d LOVE it! It would certianly fit into her kitchen! Thank you SO MUCH!
Karen – Love the canister sets….now just get me counters to put them on
Ann- I have canisters like that, but I bought them in red at Target. Target doesn’t sell them anymore, but Kmart, in my town anyway, sells them in red.
Harleen – please let us know about the vinyl letters, because that will be awesome to purchase !!
Debby- I wish I could view these..being on dialup is the pits!
Karen- Love the Canisters….You are so smart….No really you are…seriously…I mean it…;)….I think I’m going to have to make me some of those…Great Idea…
LaDonna- Love those canisters & the vinyl letters! Gonna working on making me a set of those!
I’m from NC & get asked if I’m from Alabama all the time! We definitely have the same accent! lol
Rhonda- This was so fun Christy…for sure a “do again”!
Della- I really enjoyed the videos….they were so much fun!! Thank you!
Sylvia – you are so cute!
Martha- I loved the videos..where can i get your cookbooks?
Mary Ann- really enjoyed your vids–it does take us d–yankees a bit to understand you–i guess we can’t listen as fast as you guys can talk. ( brings back memories of an instructer we once had—we really had to listen fast to understand her). keep up the great work.
Marilyn- Thanks for the Tom’s Peanut Jar reference. My Dad sold Tom’s for nearly 40 years, and my mom and I have about 4 of the jars. It had not dawned on me to use them for canisters. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Nel- really enjoyed that – you are such a hoot! keep up the good work
Julie- Thanks so much for taking the time to answer our questions, and how cool to see you actually answer them!
Betty- Sweet Videos by a Sweet Gal.
Wanda-Loved the videos. You do a great job!
Cilla- Great video christy, i love your canisters so pretty
Judy- Love the videos Christy. We really get to “see” your bubbly personality that we’ve come to know and love. ♥
Sue- Great video, great canisters and great presenter too.
Debie- Oh Christy, I just love your accent! I bet everyone would love the be your neighbor.
Su- Wow, I have NEVER seen tea bags so big. Oh you would die living over here Christy. lol You’ll be stuck with those teeny tiny tea bags.
Sheri- Thanks Christy for telling us about your cannisters which I love! I would buy those labels from your father in law….might be a great business venture for yall. Please start selling them…going to Target today to look for those cannisters! I really love your website..you are soo nice..wish you were my neighbor!:)
Jennifer- where can I order the sp basket?!
I really enjoyed it alot but you didn’t get to my question and I’d really love to know! lol
Thanks, Christy for talking about lard, and teaching me something I didn’t know about Smucker’s. I am a religious buyer of JIF peanut butter, and Smucker’s grape jam for PB&J’s, which is what my kids practically what my kids live off of.
I used to use shortening in my biscuits, (and I heard my grandmother roll in her grave every time!), but when all the hydrogenated and trans fat stuff came out in the news, I just decided that I’d go back to using good ol’ natural lard. My biscuits are fluffier and bake up crisper on the bottom. I’ve even used it for greasing pans when I’ve been out of oil or shortening.
♥Susan
It was a nice “visit” time.. only thing that woulda made it better is if we were all together on the front porch drinking sweet tea.
Love the videos….I felt like I was sitting at your kitchen table talking to me…..Keep up the good work!
You are just a doll!! I love the videos and look forward to many more. You do make me feel like you are talking to me and I wish that I was there with you. This is what Facebook is all about-keeping in touch with friends.
I check amazon frequently, hoping the delivery date for your cookbook has been changed to even sooner. I know that it will be great!
Blessings,
Pam
Great videos. I’ve been looking for Ideal because I’ve heard so much about it, but can’t find any. Looks like Amazon is the place to look. Thanks for the tip.
I just went and ordered my basket. Thanks for the reminder. I wish I had last year’s basket to go with it.
Loved the videos! Looking forward to more in the future.
I absolutely loved your videoes, please do it again. Best wishes, sue
Hi Christy, just watched your video’s, this along with your craft’s and amazing recipe’s is the best site. I am so Thankful i found you. can not wait to do the many great project’s with Grandkid’s. Thank You for all you do. you are wonderful.
Now I enjoy these! They are a lot of fun to watch! Hopefully next time I’ll be able to squeeze a question in there!…lol…
you make me smile……
Loved to hear about your dream job, Christy! It’s not very popular today, but it sure beats everything else!
Nice videos Christy..makes you feel like home. I would always grab a glass of ice tea when I was over at my moms and sit down at the old kitchen table and chat with her about everything under the sun. I had to rewind to listen to you twice on a few things because you talked so fast. I was wondering if the cake you mentioned about on your first video was a version of the Rocky Mountain Cake? I’ve seen a few different versions of this goggle it and check the ingredients..only thing it did not mention cherries & chocolate maybe they substituted cherries for raisins and used a Chocolate Cake mix? http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m032602.htm
Love the videos! I hope you do them again. I so appreciate you being “real” and of course, southern women are aren’t they?
I really like the idea of the canisters too so thanks for sharing that. I look forward to more videos in the future!
Have a blessed week ~
Pat
Christy the video’s were great Thank you for all the great ideas. I am making tomato jam today it is wonderful on eggs & gravy for breakfast and the best on pinto beans.
Tomato Jam
Slice into large pan
25 Roma tomatoes
1onion
2 bell peppers
3/5 Hot pepper
4 C. Sugar
2 C. Vinegar
Cook all the above until very tender then run through a sive to remove pulp
then cook the juices until thick like ketchup. Can in pints and seal
(The Roma tomatoes have less juice so it takes less cooking time to thicken)
You are just too cute. Loved your videos, I send your posts to my email friends and family all the time. Your such a genuine southern girl and I love that about you.
Christy, loved the videos!!! You’re so much fun to watch “live” as your passion for what you are doing really comes through. I met my late hubby at a square dance…he was home on leave from the Navy. We communicated via mail (no computers back then)! He proposed over the phone and sent my engagement ring by mail!!! I always said I was a mail order bride. We had 39 wonderful years together!!!
Hope you and your hubby have many many more then me.
Christy, is this anywhere close to your “Mountain Cake”
(It’s VERY ambitious)
GAUM CAKE
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3 3/4 oz. shelled pecans
16 oz. maraschino cherries
1 or 2 pkg. dates (8 oz. pkg.)
3 cans Baker’s Premium shred
coconut
4 c. self-rising flour
2 sticks butter or 1/2 lb.
margarine
6 c. sugar (plain sugar)
4 eggs (large)
1 1/3 c. buttermilk (add more
if needed for consistency)
1 tsp. soda
2 c. orange juice, sweetened
(Donald Duck)
1 box (1 lb.) confectioners
sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
Pour 4 cups of sugar into bowl. Add 2 cups of orange
juice, stirring often. Place bowl on stove burner, using pilot
light only. Be sure not grainy. Mix pecans, cherries, dates
and coconut with 1 cup flour. Chop nuts, dates and cherries;
dates 1/2-inch squares and nuts 1/4-inch or less. Leave enough
pecans, cherries and 1 can of coconut to garnish top of cake.
Break 4 eggs; separate whites from yolks. Place egg
whites into mixer bowl and beat. Set egg whites aside. Place
4 egg yolks, 1/2 pound butter, 2 cups of sugar and 1 level
teaspoon of soda into bowl. Mix well. Add 3 cups of flour and
1 1/3 cups buttermilk, stirring well. Add more buttermilk to
obtain a paste-like consistency. Add floured fruit to batter.
Mix thoroughly. Fold in egg whites.
Grease and flour cake pan. Pour mix into cake pan;
settle by slightly jarring cake pan. Place in a 325 degrees oven.
Bake for 4 hours. Remove cake from oven. Punch a series of
small holes in cake with an icepick or other small instrument.
Holes should be about 3-inches apart around cake. Remove
premixed orange juice from stove and pour slowly over cake.
Allow to soak into cake for 30 minutes or more. Remove cake
from pan.
Mix confectioners sugar and small amount of orange juice
with 1/8 teaspoon salt. Spread over cold cake. Use remaining
can of coconut to spread over top of cold cake. Cut remaining
cherries in half and, alternating with pecans, place around top
of cake.
Loved the videos girl. PLEASE do these on a regular basis.! Fixed the House-Autry pork chops twice last week . We loved them..
Love love love the videos! You definitely need to do more.
Now I’m going to have to think up some questions for you.
Loved the videos!!! Put me down for a set the templates for the canister set as soona as you talk them into it!!!LOL
I have really enjoyed your videos….going to find those cannisters…keep up the good work.
Christy, Thanks for “visiting” with us via your “kitchen videos”… loved every second, and the information you shared will be very helpful to many of us. Great to hear your mom participating with you, as well! God’s best to you! Pat
I feel like we just sat down and had a fun afternoon chat! I giggled out loud several times (hubby shot me funny looks!) and hope you can find the time to do these again!
Christy,
I was watching that video about how you met your husband, and my jaw started to drop about halfway through your story….I just knew what you were going to say, because that’s how *I* met *my* husband, also back when it was not “trendy” like it is now.
I met my husband in 1996, only we met as chat hosts on AOL, back when AOL was really big and you had to pay by the hour. He was living in Northern Maine (but he’s not really a Yankee), and I’m born and raised in Kentucky. After chatting a while, I went up to visit him and his family up there, and he came to visit down here. We ended up getting engaged, he moved down here, and we got married a few months later, April 1997…been married 13 years now, with 3 kids.
It was too funny though when you started telling that story and saying how y’all used to lie about it, because it wasn’t popular back then….we used to do the same thing. Now, of course, it’s “normal” to meet online.
Love, love, love your posts and recipes…some of these things I haven’t had since I was a girl, and they bring back memories. We used to go to the country for big family reunions every year, and we had some of those very things that I had forgotten about!
We went to Florida on vacation this past June, and drove through Alabama – I thought about you! We drove right past the Space Center! I told my husband, “This is where Christy lives!” He just looked at me like, “Who’s Christy?” LOL!
It was great to hear you “in person!” Love your accent! I don’t have as strong Southern accent, since I’m from Kentucky, but apparently, I have one. I’ve been told by “Yankees” that, “I have the neatest accent.” I wasn’t aware that I had one – ha!
Look forward to many more posts!
Amanda
Loved the videos. So glad you are sending the ebook again. My computer crashed that had the e book on it. . Wasn’t sure how to go about getting another copy. Thank you so much. Barbara
Hey Christy,
Do more videos! Hope to come see you at UNA! Angela
I cannot find a place to order the basket.
I was honored to be the first question. You did a great job answering all kinds of questions.
I now have my mother reading your blog. It was the bbq pork recipe that won her over.
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Loved the videos, felt like I was actually visiting with ya! You have such a positive, friendly attitude! Enjoyed our visit and hope to do it again real soon!