Jane Winstead About Me Page at Helium

My passion is ...

Anything I am interested in

I know too much about ...

Never too much

My parents always told me ...

Never to lie

My childhood ambition ...

To be a writer

My favorite memory ...

My childhood and my wonderful parents and grandparents

Why I write ...

Because I love it

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Bible, mysteries, true crime/Fox News and Hallmark channel/Rush Limbaugh

My first job ...

Clerk at a department store on Saturday in Little Rock, Arkansas when I was 16

My best moment ...

Too many to list; becoming a grandmother and now great-grandmother rate pretty high!

My inspiration ...

God

Food & Drink > Desserts Recipes: Carrot cake: 2 of 12

Old Fashion Carrot Cake This is not the traditional Carrot Cake with cream cheese icing it's just an"Old Fashion Carrot Cake." It was the tradition of my mother-in-law to bake Carrot Cakes every Christmas and give them as gifts. The Carrot Cake fragrance permeated her house during the Christmas season. It was wonderful. For some unknown reason our daughter called her Grandma Hody. The name stuck and forever after she was known as Hody by all the family. The cake eventually became known as Hody's Carrot Cake. Hody's granddaughter now bakes the Carrot Cakes at Christmas. Even now, the fragra...
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