Yummy Malaysiana: baked pumpkin and sour cream puddings

Sunday night, I emailed off 497 pages containing 80,392 words to my editor (846 photos had been sent over before the weekend), went to bed at 2 a.m., woke up at 6 a.m. and a few hours later came home to a completely empty apartment and two entire hours to myself two hours to nap or just stare slack-jawed at the ceiling fan and think about nothing for a while and decided instead that Id had enough of this pumpkin-free November Id been having and went back into the kitchen to make pudding. Thats normal right? Thats what normal people do, right? Wait, dont tell me.

So, a manuscript has officially been delivered, a whole 6 hours in advance of its deadline. I am the eternal college student, apparently, though if youd asked me 18 months ago when I was going to finish my book I could have probably told you right then Five minutes before it is due. Im classy like that. I would hardly say that the cookbook process is finished were still ironing out some kinks, theres copyediting (I cant be the only one who pities the copyeditor who must deal with the madness I pass off as grammar, right?), some reshoots, theyve been kind enough to offer me design input though theyll probably regret it when they see what bad taste I have I wont bore you with the details. But for the most part?! Im back ! Whee! And theres no place else Id rather be.