Avocado sauce and joy in the blues and Blackness
Welcome to installment #37 of GetSomeJoy’s Daily Breakfast Situation, your morning check-in with recipes, joy-flavored stories, and wellness tools.
So far during Sauce Week, we’ve had something for smothering, and two options for drizzling (taddow and shazzam).
On today, I dip, you dip; we dip.
When I discussed my dip prospects with my homegirl Colah of the Black in the Garden podcast, I wondered aloud, “…spicy…syrup…maybe?” Nah.
We then debated whether the salsa we eat with crispy tortillas was a sauce or a dip. She maintains that it is a dip.
I argued that it may be chunky, but it’s a sauce that we dip. I still love her, though.
I landed on avocado sauce, because I couldn’t choose guacamole, and I only dip into syrup if I am leaving Burger King with French toast sticks.
With avocado sauce, I can go from dippable to drizzlable with just a bit more olive oil and citrus depending on how freaky I’m feeling.
This creamy avocado sauce by Laylita — with cilantro, lime juice, jalapeño, salt and cumin — would be good as fuck on breakfast and non-breakfast tacos and sammiches, omelets, toast, huevos rancheros, frittatas, salads, tostadas, burritos, rice bowls, or even drizzled atop a savory galette.
Mmmm.
A few things to moisturize your spirit:
- Good morning to Tabitha Brown, who’s opening a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles.
- Shalene Gupta spoke to community members about what it’s like to be Black and disabled and the specific challenges they face navigating this ho-ass world.
Black people with disabilities are especially likely to have issues with police officers, who can misinterpret their behavior — such as a deaf person who keeps walking when told to stop — as a threat.
- As part of her four-part “Bake It Up a Notch” series, Erin from Food52 broke down getting your fruit pie situation together: raw vs pre-cooked filling, using frozen fruit, knowing when it’s done, upside-down pies, embracing mistakes, and so forth.
- L’Oreal Thompson Payton explores what mental health how mental health practitioners can remove barriers to connecting with more Black patients.
- Poet and photographer Stacy Johnson blessed us with this gorgeous vignette capturing the joy in the blues, catfish, and watching Black women she loves.
Aunt Tee sips tall glasses of lemonade filled with ice, spiked with whiskey; homemade. She knows the Blues are only for her and the lyrics contain the answers to all of her problems. I sat motionless in the corner and watched. (via AfroSapiophile)
- On the latest episode of Ratchet and Respectable with Demetria L. Lucas, “Demi is outside (in LA): The Ebony Power 100, Brunch with Cori Bush, and Jazmine Sullivan’s SoHeaux Tales; Insecure and All-American are back; Kyrie Irving fans have lost their minds, and Diva Cups.”
Listen to Ratchet & Respectable wherever you do your podcasting.
Dassit. See you tomorrow.
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Alexander Hardy is a grits-powered writer, home cook, dancer, lupus survivor, and co-founder of GetSomeJoy, a creative wellness agency. He supports communities and organizations with joy-flavored wellness trainings, experiences, and campaigns as a wellness program facilitator. Alexander does not believe in snow or Delaware.
