Stacey Lynn is a food blogger and can’t get enough of southern food. Blessed to be working with Christy Jordan since early in 2020, and honored that Christy has passed her apron onto Stacey. Stacey Lynn has expanded Southern Plate recipe base while holding continuing the spread the Southern traditions passed down in the 2000+ recipes currently on the site.
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Hey Y’all,
Thanks for coming to meet me here on SouthernPlate.com. I am a southern food lover, blogger, and recipe maker who does my best to focus on the good in life. I have cared for people all my adult life and in my heart I know there isn’t anything more soul fulfilling than connecting with those you love over a feast of delicious food.
My love of southern food came from living in Texas, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida as well as spending time in Arkansas where my mama lives. I may not have been born in the South but I got here as fast as I could. Mama will tell you I wasn’t much of a cook growing up but as times change and life throws you lemons, you gotta make lemonade. So I got myself in the kitchen and learned how to cook good wholesome food for my son and fell in love with the process.
In each of the places I have lived I have always been welcomed into the homes of friends that became family with amazing food that harnessed good ole southern charm.
My goal with Southern Plate is when you come to southernplate.com you feel like you are visiting family. Come on over, step out of our sometimes crazy world, and just be yourself focusing on family, friends and good wholesome food.
Have a good look around and enjoy some good company and delicious recipes.
Gratefully,
Stacey Lynn
Christy Jordan is a food blogger, bestselling cookbook author, tv personality, former editor at large for Southern Living Magazine, former contributing editor to Taste of the South magazine, and someone who loves to feed people.
She holds a B.S. in Home Economics with a concentration in Foods and Nutrition. A ninth generation Alabamian, Christy lives just minutes from where she was born with her husband of 20 years, their two children, various cats, dogs, and a small flock of chickens.
SouthernPlate has been twice named one of the top 25 food websites in the country, and draws millions of visitors each month.
The Southern Plate family is made up of a wide variance of folks who value family, friends, faith, and strengthening connections over a home cooked meal.
Long Version:
Christy Jordan was the cornerstone of Southern Plate for twelve years. Her information will stay here on the site because you know what, where we come from is important. There wouldn’t be a Southern Plate without Christy Jordan so please take some time to set a spell and learn more about what went into creating this wonderful slice of the internet.
Gratefully,
Stacey Lynn
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Who is Christy Jordan?
For starters, my name is Christy Jordan and I want you to know right up front that I’m nobody special, but I come from some awfully good people, a long line of Southern cooks who were some of the poorest folks around but rich in every way that mattered. I was raised to appreciate the real wealth in life : Family, Friends, Faith, and Good Food. My Mother and Grandmothers used their talent in the kitchen to bring us all together at each meal. Most of the stories I know of my ancestors were passed down to me around that dinner table. Through our mealtime conversations we learned who we were, where we came from, and what was expected of us as we went out into the world.
Where do my recipes come from?
I’m often asked where my recipes come from. Well, the vast majority are from my mother and grandmothers, the food I was raised on. It’s in my heart to preserve these recipes and our Southern food heritage whenever I am able and Southern Plate has given me a great way to do just that. Every now and then I develop a recipe on my own. I am especially fond of meal-in-one recipes but you’ll quickly find that I have a real love for desserts as well. Either way, I tend to keep most of my cooking in line with the Southern style and seldom venture away from it.
The great thing about classic southern food is that it is, in it’s purest form, simple and inexpensive – because Southerners in the old days were poor and tired!
While I love the old ways of doing things I’m not one to shy away from using a mix or a shortcut, either. Sure Grandmother didn’t do it that way, but you also have to consider that cake mixes and such weren’t available in my grandmother’s time. She worked all day long in the cotton fields and then came in bone tired to cook a meal for her family. Boy howdee, if she could have made it with a shortcut I know that my wise great granny would have.
I want to make one thing as clear as possible : How your Mama made it is the right way. No one will ever cook for you like your Mama did and I’m surely not here to try. But when I bring you a recipe I’m going to bring it to you how My Mama made it, which is the only right way for me.
Chime in!
One of my greatest joys from Southern Plate is getting to hear from you in the comments section on the site. Hearing back from you is what makes this a conversation so I do hope you’ll take time to leave me a quick hello, let me know when you try a dish, or just introduce yourself. I read every single comment left and you’d be surprised at how well I get to know you through them! I also try to answer as many as I possibly can.
If I am ever fortunate enough to run into one of you while I’m out and about you should expect a hug because If you read Southern Plate, we’re family. The fact that we’ve never met is just a technicality.
Welcome to the family, you’re a grand addition.
Gratefully,
Christy
I would like to join your Bible reading group but I don’t belong to Facebook. Do you have any other options?
Hey Cathy! I’m afraid that is the only option at this time. We go pretty deep in the notes each day and between researching and writing that and running this site I haven’t managed to have time to set up another website and figure out how to implement the Bible study there. Plus, the discussions work so well in the private Facebook group. Members share the most amazing insight each day! I would love for you to join us but if you prefer not to I understand. You can download the readings at the link below, but in the group we discuss the context, culture, and what was going on around each incident to really help it come to life. https://www.southernplate.com/fellowship
Christy, I enjoy your website, your recipes & the encouragement you bring by sharing your life. I have a question regarding your free printables. The Supper Planning Cheat Sheets has the all rights reserved, no redistribution without permission notice. Where do I go to ask for permission? I am part of a Bible study mentoring team which has a Bible study & a cooking segment. We will be including a session on meal planning & I would like to use this sheet. It is a small group with 5 students. I will be sharing your website with them
Thanks,
Kathy
hey! you go right here! 🙂 I happily give you permission to share copies of this with your group and any future groups like it. Thank you for asking!
Thank you, Christy
I can’t seem to find your latest Friday morning Chat – May 17th. I really cannot get up that early (maybe because I stay up reading until 2am!!) so I depend on the recorded version. What am I doing wrong that I can’t find it?
Hey! You’re not doing anything wrong at all. We were on vacation so I didn’t do one last Friday. I announced it on Facebook but didn’t really have a place to announce it here. I’ll be back this Friday though! Hope to see you then. 🙂
Hi there, I’ve been receiving your emails and reading your blog for years. Love the content and happy and kind culture you have created in your posts. Awhile back (around the holidays maybe?) I read about a post or video that you were going to tell us about your camper/motor home decision and why you switched gears on that at the last possible minute. I’ve looked and looked on the website but can’t find that post anywhere. If you have time, can you please let me know where to find that content? Thanks so much! 🙂
Hey Kelly! I have been trying to post that for a while now but we’ve had round after round of sickness and then when we feel better I order one more thing to decorate the RV before I do it! Today, I’m picking up a framed cross stitch piece that my mother made us for it and as soon as I get that hung up and get my voice back I hope to do a video tour 🙂
Yay! I thought I missed it or something. I’m glad I didn’t. I’m so curious to hear all about it. Keep up the good work. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. Feel better soon.
Christy: I so enjoy your website. The pictures are spectacular, very well done. And the recipes, where do I begin? Thank you for offering your wholesome values. You are a blessing to all of us.
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Lol! This one made me chuckle!! I just love your personality & positive attitude, Christy!!
Hi Christy! I have been enjoying your recipes for years. Your crock pot dressing has been making me look good for a long time, and learning to boil ground beef in large batches was life changing! (Now I do something similar with my instant pot) 🙂 I was so extremely happy to find that you are one of the sponsors of the Door Keepers Conference organized by Anne Elliot. Small world! I think we may have some things in common. Thank you for your your website/blog/recipes and for being “real” with your readers. I have enjoyed and hopefully will continue to enjoy your Southern Plate. Shalom Christy! Debbie Ingle, from Georgia
Hi Christy, I’m Denise; I was looking over your website at all your foods and desserts, as well as various other dishes, Your foods look so very fresh, my mouth was watering! Anyways, I wanted to know whether your Company accepts EBT, that’s for food stamps. I know some Online Companies that do have it …Such as Amazon, Schwan’s, Fresh Direct, there are some others. and you can buy your groceries at any time and for the month with your EBT debit card and Shipping is Free! The Trucks or UPS or USPS, etc. Delivers the products to your door. You know It would be a real blessing to those of us who cannot get out to the grocery market for whatever reasons, It would really be a big Help to others. Especially when your financial situation is strained. I’m not sure you would consider it. However, I know that it would come as a big blessing to those who are without. Besides, Your foods are Fresh and look Delicious! I’m sure you have a large Clientele of Customers now…But, the possibilities can be endless. I am also a gifted Writer/Poet, My God-given talents I can write Articles and Commercials, ads. God Bless You and Your Family Christy. May God continue to make You Prosperous! God Bless. Denise
Hey Denise! I’m so grateful for our EBT system that helps out so many. My great grandmother relied on it a great part of her life, despite how hard she worked, she just couldn’t make enough on her own to make ends meet. All of my recipes are free here on the site and I don’t offer anything beyond recipes so I don’t see how I would make use of EBT but I do hope folks of all walks find the recipes helpful to their meal planning.