My friend Jana visited for a few
days from Michigan and
it was so good to see her. Jana is the kind of friend
who keeps you from too much crippling self-doubt about the progress
you're making on your life. My
requirements for friendship vary by person, because each of my
friends has different qualities for me to admire and draw upon. This means that--like with most people, I suspect--none of my friendships exhibit exactly the same characteristics. In the aggregate, my friends keep me sane,
grounded, focused, goofy, loved, connected, humble, social, and/or
creative.
As a current friend and former coworker and roommate, Jana
does many of these things, but what she really does is she keeps me
afloat. When I begin to wander into a hyperbolic fit
of melodrama over the state of my career/love life/education/future,
she reels me back in before I fall too far down the rabbit hole. I hate
giving her back to her husband and
cat, but I suppose I couldn't keep her forever. They deserve to have her in
their lives at least as much as I (this is me, being a good, unselfish, self-sacrificing friend :P).
While she visited, I made:
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| Homemade Nutella and cajeta (goat's milk caramel sauce) |
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| Baked eggs with kale and tomatoes |
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| Lemon blueberry donuts |
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| Tofu stir-fry with asparagus and carrots |
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| Coconut-almond-date-cranberry energy bars |
2 comments:
Melissa, visiting you was the best! And also the most delicious! I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite from all the wonderful things you made.--Jana
FYI, while I absolutely love the recipe I posted (with dates, almonds, and cranberries), variations on this recipe may yield unpleasant results. I tried pecans, cherries, raisins, and cocoa nibs. This was a, shall we say, less than stellar combination. I think it may be best to use just one kind of fruit (or not raisins?) and I might not add cocoa nibs again.
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