Waltzing with Bourbon

I have the kind of silly brag I would have sat on two years ago, but now that I have a forum for such things, I can tell the world: I won second place at a bake-off party last night! The theme was bourbon and chocolate, and I waltzed in late with a chocolate-bourbon bread pudding and bourbon caramel sauce and everyone was talking about it! And it wasn't even that hard to make!

After spending literally day of the last month wrestling with NICE AND MEAN, I can't tell you how good it feels to give very little effort and forethought to something and then have it turn out absolutely delicious and universally lauded. If only writing a novel were that easy. Maybe I should stick mine in a water-bath...