What You’ve Been Cooking (A Digest of recipes!)

A collection of recipes you’ve been cooking!

A collection of recipes you’ve been cooking!

Congratulations to the following winners who were chosen at random to win these slow cookers: Shepherdess2, Heather Harmeyer, Susieyarb, Nancy Jones, Gary Herron, Lori Dawson, Gail Dormon, Jacqueline Hoge, Sue McWhorter, Marty Knutson. All winners have already been emailed and now have three days to respond to the email to claim their prizes. Please note [...]

This contest is now closed. Congratulations to Carolyn Noblet, whose name was chosen at random to win! My kids are huge PB&J folks. When we were dating, my husband lived on them, literally. He kept a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter, and a jar of jelly in his desk drawer and that [...]

I strive to make SouthernPlate.com a place where people of all faiths and walks of life feel welcome, because you are. This is my virtual kitchen and I want any one of you to feel like you can just walk in, prop your feet up, and visit a spell. With that in mind, I’m letting [...]

Thank you to everyone who entered this great giveaway and thanks again to White Lily for providing it! Congratulations to Christy Howlett and LaJeania Jenkins, whose comments were chosen at random to win! Y’all keep on reading Southern Plate because your participate in the Southern Plate family is what brings all this cool stuff our way! [...]

Congratulations to Ricky Mudd! His comment was chosen using random.org to win this prize. Thank you to everyone who entered! You help ensure we have more great giveaways coming up on SouthernPlate.com! Congratulations are also in order to Christine Sanford! White Lily was so excited with the participation in this giveaway that they decided to [...]

When it comes to football I’m on the side of any team whose fans like to serve food

I went shopping for you!

Congratulations to Patti Skaggs! Her comment was chosen using random.org to win this great giveaway. Thank you to everyone who entered. More great giveaways are coming thanks to you! While lots of stores are offering great deals, I’m teaming up with Masterbuilt to GIVE one Lucky Southern Plate Family Member A Butterball Indoor Electric Turkey [...]

Enter to win this entire set of Calphalon!

If you missed my guest appearance on Paula Deen’s Best Dishes, it airs again today, November 7th at 5:00 Eastern (Please check times in your area) and again November 14th at 12:00 PM Eastern on Food Network. This is gonna be a hectic week, but in a good way! I have to do a little [...]

Come into my kitchen as I cook the cover of Southern Living!
Potato Chip Cookies Ingredients2 -1/2 oz almonds (Optional, I omit them) 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup sugar 2 tsp vanilla 1 cup crushed potato chips 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour InstructionsGrease cookie sheet(s). Cream together butter and sugar, then vanilla. Alternate adding in chips and flour. Add almonds last. The dough will have [...]

Today marks the one year anniversary of the official release of my book, and what a wonderful year it has been!

Enter for a chance to win a Nook E-Reader an great Prize Package!

Old Fashioned Apple Dumplings like my Grandmother Made Ingredients2-10 count cans of biscuits 3 granny smith apples ¾ stick butter or margarine 1 cup sugar ½ teaspoon cinnamon InstructionsBoiling water (Enough to completely cover the dumplings and then another 1/2 cup) Let biscuits sit out while you peel and chop apples (They’re easier to roll [...]

Dear Family, I’m excited to share my big news with you today and hope you’ll be as excited as I am. This doesn’t change anything with regards to SouthernPlate.com, but we will probably end up setting a few more places at our table! Gratefully, Christy Click Here For Official Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, [...]

Help us spread the word! Click the “Like” Button above if you’re on FB. Thanks! Get your tickets now by clicking here Everyone who purchases their tickets by October 1st will be entered to win one of ten VIP passes to the Southern Plate lunch on November 10th. Join us at the Marriot Conference [...]

TOUR VeggieTales with me and leave a comment to win!

This post seems trivial and meaningless as I read over it. I wasn’t in New York on Sept. 11 and I don’t directly know anyone who passed away on that day, but I wanted to share my heart a bit with you today and I’d like you to share your heart with me in the [...]

CONGRATULATIONS to Frances Owen! Her name was drawn at random from the comments below to win this great prize pack. Stay tuned because the great folks at Nestle aren’t done yet! There are more great prizes coming up, including a color Nook! Thank you to everyone who entered this and to all of you for [...]

There are many wonderful causes the whole year through, but so many come closer to home around Christmas time. With an abundance of charities that do amazing work and provide much needed services to those who need them, there is never a shortage of ways and areas in which we can make a difference. Each [...]

I’m teaming up with Dreamworks Entertainment and Allrecipes.com for their great sweepstakes promoting the new film “The Help”. The grand prize is a cooking class for six people in the winner’s hometown with me! CLICK HERE To visit Allrecipe’s Facebook page and enter. While you’re there please join the Southern Plate Family Facebook page as [...]

Pick up the August/September issue of Taste of the South to see my quick and easy back to school supper and snack recipes! My name is on the cover in the bottom right hand corner (woohoo!). I love it when you tell me what you’ve been making! Every now and then I ask what you’ve [...]

Congratulations to Marla Gillum and Kim Alexander – Their comments were chosen using Random.org to win the sets of Rubbermaid. Thank you all so much for entering and being part of the Southern Plate Family! I’ve sent an email to each winner already. Please keep in mind that with a family of this size, there [...]