Welcome to the Southern Plate Family, we’re so proud to have you here. Feel free to subscribe by email if you like so you won’t miss a single recipe! Gratefully, Christy According to my kids, yesterday was the best day of their lives. Now if someone had told me that, my immediate question would be, [...]
This is the last post in my Oh My Bacon Grease! Series. To see the first post, click here. The second post, click here I’m going to start this post by letting you know, in the interest of full disclosure, that while the recipe I am bringing you today serves about four or five people [...]
Are you hot enough yet? Join me this week as I bring you an entire menu for the fourth of July that doesn’t require an oven or a grill! Subscribe by email so you don’t miss a post! Gratefully, Christy There is no telling how many different kinds of slaw there are in the world [...]
What do you plan on cooking on the 4th? I’d love to hear your menu in the comments section and its a great opportunity for everyone to get more ideas, too! Today I’m bringing you a quick and easy recipe I developed for Velveeta that would be a great side dish for your July 4th [...]
Don’t go telling Mama I said this but she has kind of a weird life. You see, Mama has a lot of drop ins. Now that isn’t weird in and of itself but when I tell you a little more about what those drop-ins demand here in a minute you’ll see more what I mean. [...]
Sometimes you just have one of those days. You know, the ones where you are torn between curling up in the fetal position, sending an SOS signal, or jumping off the craziness of your own roller coaster. Dang those days are fun, though. When they’re over, you kinda get to stand back and see what [...]
A few years back I picked up a magazine and read the most amazing article about the most amazing person. A woman who’d left her life in the big city to return home to Alabama and buy her own creamery. She began a stunningly successful venture that has earned accolades and awards in abundance. The [...]
With the onset of Spring, I’ m just itching for fresh food and sunshine. It’s a little early for produce from my own garden but thanks to the marvels of our modern grocery stores, I can get all I need to whip up this salad in a jiff. This serves as a delicious side dish [...]
I was a tickled that so many people wanted to know how I made the potatoes that were pictured with last week’s meatloaf. Stewed potatoes are something I make fairly often for my family because they are so stinking easy to whip up and make a filling side dish to go with just about everything. [...]
If you’re planning on having a traditional Southern New Years Day dinner, go get your black eyed peas now before they sell out! I mentioned this on the Southern Plate Family page and some readers are already reporting not being able to find any. While you’re at it, pick up some collards or turnip greens [...]
My mother loves homemade cranberry relish, she always has. Me, I was a died-in-the-wool devotee of “the kind with the rings on it” from an early age and only discovered the beauty of homemade as an adult. Yup, I loved the stuff from the can. Since we only had cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving and at [...]
Todays post is quick and easy to throw together and serves as a wonderful side dish but the versatility allows you to use leftovers to turn this into a main entree! The fun thing about it though is that you can make several ahead of time and freeze them to use in a jiffy at [...]
Nowadays, families are spending less time eating out and more time at the dinner table. With our busy schedules, we’re looking for no hassle recipes that our families will love. That’s why the makers of VELVEETA are encouraging families to VELVEETA it!-to create a dish that is quick and easy but a guaranteed home run [...]
If you give a Belle an eggplant She’ll probably look at you funny. But she’ll take it just the same because a Belle hates to be rude. She’ll turn it around and admire it’s color and shape…until you tell her it is a vegetable. Once she realizes it is a vegetable..she’ll ooh and ahh… Then, [...]
Macaroni Salad is one of my mother’s favorite summertime dishes but I have to be honest here, until a few weeks ago, I had never tried it. ~waits for the collective gasp~ I know, I know, I’m a horrible person who has lived a wasted life. Thanks to my sister in law, Tina, I can [...]
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Congealed Salad Ingredients1 can (20 ounces) crushed pineapple 1/2 C water 2 packages (3 ounces each) cherry gelatin 1 can (21 ounces) cherry pie filling 3/4 C Diet Dr Pepper (or favorite coke)InstructionsDrain pineapple, reserving the juice. Set aside. In a saucepan, bring pineapple juice and water to a boil. Add gelatin and stir [...]
My friend, Heather, called me yesterday to get this recipe. I had given it to her a few years back and she had misplaced it and wanted to make it for her upcoming fourth of July gathering. Fortunately, I remembered seeing it on my blogging buddy Rhoda’s site and just sent her there to get [...]
This is one of those recipes that was told to me over the phone, beginning with “You fry you up some bacon…”. Now in my experience, any recipe that begins with those instructions is gonna be good. I’ve never actually written this one down until now and I’ve never seen it written down so the [...]
This is a staple at barbecues, family gatherings, and reunions. During our Southern Summers, we love the juicy and refreshing experience of eating this salad! Although I had seen it plenty as a child, the first time I actually tasted fire and ice salad was when I was pregnant with my daughter. My husband’s [...]
My great grandmother, Mama Reed, always had a relish tray at every meal. My mother remembers it being filled with homemade pickles, pickled beats, and fresh vegetables from her own garden according to season. It was the perfect accompaniment to every meal. Folks could pass it around and use the contents to add variety and [...]
Lay out a table with every dish imaginable, absolutely everything under the sun, and if there is fresh fried corn on that table, you’ll know where to find me. There is nothing in this world like the flavor of fresh corn, shucked and cut off the cob and cooked up in a skillet. No matter [...]
While I’m packing and cleaning and tossing, Mama took some pics of her Corn Casserole the other day for me to use (She doesn’t want me dirtying up my kitchen while I’m getting ready to move!). If you’ve never had corn casserole and you have even the smallest inkling of a liking for corn or [...]
Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and an amazing Easter filled with family, friends, and FOOD! Hey, you know I was thinking it! I was on the Darla Shine show this past Saturday and I have never been so nervous in my life! Okay, the time I won first place in [...]
Every self respecting Southerner has a deviled egg plate, usually two. We have one for “fancy” company and a travel one which has a handy little lid (in the interest of disclosure, I have three fancy ones and one travel one). Deviled eggs are standard fare at all family reunions, church gatherings, and holidays but [...]
For Recipes Especially For Valentine’s Day Click Here Mashed potatoes are the perfect comfort food dish and our entire family insists that my grandmother make them whenever we have a big dinner. The reason these are “MeMe’s Mashed Potatoes” is because that is what all of the great grandkids (my children and numerous nephews) call [...]
I’m going to tell y’all something today and I need this to stay just between us. You see, I love Alabama. I have lived in Alabama all of my life (except for a three month sabbatical to Georgia) and I plan on spending the rest of my days residing in this great state. If this [...]
Back when I first started Southern Plate, I had an email from a reader asking if I could do a tutorial on fried okra. Well, y’all know I’ll eventually get to everything and here it is, the long awaited fried okra tutorial! Fried okra is a truly delicious side dish. It seems no matter the [...]
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