Apple butter eggnog cinnamon rolls and Black queer and trans chosen families
Welcome to installment #53 of GetSomeJoy’s Daily Breakfast Situation, your weekday check-in with recipes, joy-flavored stories, and wellness tools.
We’re back from a pause for the restoration cause with sweet, swirly inspiration for the best meal and a non-judgmental yet concerned glance at you and those unfrozen Thanksgiving leftovers.
May the spirit of discernment and self-preservation be with you.
On today, a recipe featuring a bunch of words I’d never seen together: overnight apple butter eggnog cinnamon rolls by Orchids + Sweet Tea.
Whew.
Here’s how Shanika describes them:
Not only are they super thick, fluffy, tender, brioche-like rolls, but they come completely bursting with apple butter flavor and smothered in a rich, but light eggnog cream cheese glaze.
Having attempted a batch of overstuffed, too-wet sweet potato cinnamon rolls, I appreciate Shanika’s guidance on improving your technique (less filling, ample mixing, rapid vs active dry yeast, etc.) and achieving fluffier results. She also makes the case for letting your cinnamon rolls rise and percolate overnight for maximum enjoyment, because ain’t nobody got time to be stressed about dessert.
Tis the season for test batch deliveries, so I see these in my future.
And homemade apple butter?
Sign me the fuck up.
(The Kitchn has ideas for exploring the world of fruit butters.)
A few things to moisturize your spirit:
- Chile, look at these vegans tasting each other’s vegan macaroni and “cheese.”
- Aunjanue Ellis gave a stellar and captivating performance as Oracene the Great, tennis coach and mother of world champions Venus and Serena Williams, in King Richard. She spoke to Cassius Life about Oracene’s importance, how she prepared to bring this character to life, and her favorite moments in the film.
I think that the filmmakers wanted to be honest about who she was. And to honestly tell the story of the Williams family, they had to tell the truth of who Miss Oracene was.
- Shoutout to efficiency: At the Black woman-owned Girls Auto Clinic in Upper Darby, PA, you can get your nails and eyebrows did at their Clutch Beauty Bar while you get your car serviced. Or you can go straight to the waxing and cuticle bustdown.
If you can’t visit the Girls Auto Clinic in person, owner Patrice Banks has library of auto care videos, the Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide, and a whole shecanic community for women drivers and mechanics.
And they’re hiring auto technicians, service advisors, customer service representatives, and nail techs. Get info here.
- The Let’s Get Back To Queer podcast is back.
In this episode, five producers explore what community means to them, in whatever ways that we as Black queer and trans people experience it. From a fellatio-fanclub turned familia to a good Godly Sunday word, and everything in between. This episode is a celebration of Black LGBTQ communities from the minds of Ja’Mel A. Ware, Ny’Omi “JUICY” Stewart, Glenn Quentin George, Shannon Joy, and host Brandon Nick.
Dassit. See you tomorrow.
