{"id":69,"date":"2014-11-26T14:13:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aliciadaniel.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2014-11-26T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:13:38","slug":"let-the-cooking-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/2014\/11\/26\/let-the-cooking-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the cooking begin!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2952\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aliciadaniel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/carrot-cake-free-clip-art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/aliciadaniel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/carrot-cake-free-clip-art.jpg\" alt=\"carrot cake (free clip art)\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2952\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">carrot cake (free clip art)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.&nbsp; We&#8217;re all getting together at my mother&#8217;s house for dinner.&nbsp;Well we&#8217;re supposed to meet around 2:00 but I&#8217;m sure some won&#8217;t be there until around 3:30. My family has a habit of being late. It&#8217;s almost a family tradition!!<\/p>\n<p>Yes we are even inviting my childrens new &#8216;adoptive grandfather&#8217; Charlie too.&nbsp;He&#8217;s bringing the turkey. I&#8217;m making a carrot cake and everyone else has a dish they are too bring. I love carrot cake and have a recipe my great-grandmother gave me a long time ago.&nbsp;It&#8217;s the best carrot cake ever.&nbsp;In fact, here&#8217;s the recipe:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Carrot Cake<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">2 cups grated carrots<br \/>\n1 small can  of crushed pineapple not drained<br \/>\n1 1\/2 cups Wesson oil (doesn&#8217;t have to be  Wesson oil)<br \/>\n2 cups sugar<br \/>\n2 cups flour<br \/>\n1 teaspoon salt<br \/>\n1 teaspoon  cinnamon (may use 2 if desired but I use 1)<br \/>\n2 teaspoons baking soda<br \/>\n4  eggs<br \/>\n1\/2 cup chopped pecans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Cream oil and sugar together.&nbsp; Add  Carrots, pineapple and nuts.&nbsp; Add eggs one<br \/>\nat a time and beat well.&nbsp; Add dry  ingredients sifted together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Bake in 3 layers at 350 degrees  approximately 45 minutes or until done by<br \/>\nsticking a toothpick in the middle  and it comes out clean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Frosting for Carrot  Cake<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">1 8 ounce package of creamed cheese<br \/>\n1 stick of  margarine<br \/>\n1 box of powdered sugar<br \/>\n1 teaspoon vanilla<br \/>\n1 cup of chopped  pecans<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Have cheese and margarine soft.&nbsp; Set out of refrigerator a few  hours.<br \/>\nUse electric mixer to mix in powdered sugar, vanilla and  nuts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Put in refrigerator after you frost it to make it set better after  frosting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Enjoy!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.&nbsp; We&#8217;re all getting together at my mother&#8217;s house for dinner.&nbsp;Well we&#8217;re supposed to meet around 2:00 but I&#8217;m sure some won&#8217;t be there until around 3:30. My family has a habit of being late. It&#8217;s almost a family tradition!! Yes we are even inviting my childrens new &#8216;adoptive grandfather&#8217; Charlie too.&nbsp;He&#8217;s bringing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/2014\/11\/26\/let-the-cooking-begin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let the cooking begin!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,20,25,28],"tags":[63,523],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communitycharity","category-family","category-life","category-parenting","category-rants-raves","tag-alicia-daniel","tag-life-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}