
Pin it This giveaway is now closed but please enjoy the post! This post is proudly sponsored by the Nestle Family Holiday Exchange. Read to the end for details on how to enter a series of valuable giveaways! Congratulations to Carol Driver for winning this giveaway and thank you for entering! One of the greatest [...]

I blame this pie almost entirely for my childhood weight issues – and man was it ever worth it!

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Pin itOkay so some of you may not realize this but I am chronically unorganized. I’m not kidding. In fact, if you were reading this aloud to anyone who has ever lived with me they would be emphatically shaking their head right now like a bobble head doll on a Tennessee gravel road. Seriously. So [...]

Pin it Congratulations to Charlotte Mills, who won the Convection oven, and Teresa Orr, who won the indoor grill! Thanks to Hamilton Beach for offering these and thanks to YOU for being such a great part of the Southern Plate Family! I’m personally emailing the winners now with details on how to claim their prizes. [...]
Nov 25 2010 | Posted in
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Pin itThis may seem silly to some of y’all, but this is going to be a very emotional post for me. You see, I always dreamed of getting to go to college. Mama and Daddy both graduated high school back in a time where graduating high school was enough for just about anything you wanted [...]
Nov 22 2010 | Posted in
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Cooking and eating have always been a big part of family gatherings. With roots from Italy and Germany, just to name a few, that is no surprise.

Pin itJust thought I’d share a few photos from Katy Rose’s kindergarten field trip to a farm today. The odd thing for us was that this farm was just a few minutes from my Papa Reed’s farm! I had hoped to get to leave and go spend some time there after it was done but [...]

Want a homemade dessert with surprisingly little effort that will please a crowd? A cheesecake bar and this super easy cheesecake recipe is the way to go!

Pin itIf you missed my Guest Appearance on Paula Deen’s Best Dishes, it airs a final time on November 14th at 12:00 Noon Eastern on the Food Network. Click here for more information and to read about my day with Paula. Today I’ll be doing last minute prep for my Holiday Cooking Show and I’m [...]

Pin itFolks often ask me how all of this feels, having a book published, traveling around, doing television, and so on. I finally came up with a way to describe it. It feels like there is another Christy Jordan out there living a parallel life. Honestly, that is just exactly how it feels. I’m just [...]

This recipe is from my dear mother. She is 75 years young. She taught me all I know about cooking.
Nov 11 2010 | Posted in
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Pin it Add this recipe to ZipList!Cornbread Dressing Ingredients3-4 Cups Shredded Turkey (can substitute chicken or omit entire) 2 cans cream of chicken soup 2 quarts cornbread 2 tablespoons dried sage 1 medium onion, chopped 2 hard boiled eggs, chopped 1/2 cup (one stick) margarine, melted 3-4 cups broth (from your turkey or canned)InstructionsSet aside [...]

Pin it Reading Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. HAVE A GREAT DAY! Listen to more of my favorite stories below! Tacky The Penguin Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type Bark, George YES DAY! Giraffes Can’t Dance Pete The Cat Kiss Good Night Green Eggs And Ham One Fish, Two Fish Wocket In [...]

Pin itCONGRATULATIONS TO TAMMY J HELMS on winning the slow cooker thanks to random.org! Thank you all for entering! Just in time for the holidays, Hamilton Beach is giving this Hamilton Beach Set n’ Forget 6 Quart Slow cooker to one lucky member of the Southern Plate family! This is the same slow cooker I’ve [...]
Nov 8 2010 | Posted in
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Someone asked me for a carrot recipe a week or so ago and I told them I’d get right on it, as soon as I had time to light somewhere and actually do a new post.
Nov 8 2010 | Posted in
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Pin it I just LOVE having company for Sunday dinner and am thrilled to have not one but two guests coming today! I got up a little after five to get everything cooking so I could just come home and heat and serve. Here is my menu for today. I just kinda went with whatever [...]

Pin it Add this recipe to ZipList!Apple Brown Betty Ingredients1 quart apple sauce 1/4 cup sugar 2 cups graham cracker crumbs 1/2 cup butter 1 or 2 teaspoons cinnamon (depends on your taste) 1/2 cup pecans, choppedInstructionsMix apple sauce and 1/4 cup sugar and pour into a baking dish. Melt 1/2 cup butter and [...]
Nov 4 2010 | Posted in
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Pin itDallas traffic kept us from having time to do this earlier in the day but we found time to sing it at gas station just before we had to part ways! Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare with StumblersShare on technoratiTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend

Pin itAs I enter my third November with SouthernPlate.com, I thought I’d bring you some past November favorites from the site. Hope you enjoy them! Sawdust Pie If you’ve never had Sawdust pie before, I really do feel it could become a fast family favorite. The taste is rich and buttery, and whipped cream and [...]
Nov 1 2010 | Posted in
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