French toast casserole and Michaela Coel’s call for creative bravery
Welcome to installment #24 of GetSomeJoy’s The Daily Breakfast Situation, your morning check-in with recipes, joy-flavored stories, and wellness tools.
Welcome to French Toast Week, a moment to praise dance in our finest kente skort sets in honor of the supreme syrup sister.
For Waffle Week, we went on a fantastic voyage with sweet potato waffles, loaded potato waffles, waffle chicken sandwiches, cinnamon roll waffles, and all kinds of joy. And that was cute. But the Queen is here now.
Let’s start the week off with an easy French toast casserole by Island Vibe Cooking. *cue sexy saxophone moment*
This is made for sharing, buuuuuuut I’m not here to police your eating habits. The recipe includes apples, but feel free to use your preferred fruit. I bet peaches would be super phat in here. Experiment with bread choices and get freaky with an extract other than or in addition to vanilla.
It’s your world.
If there’s not a French-toast-as-a-snack movement, consider this our launch.
Get more ideas via my Pinterest breakfast board.
Here are a few things to moisturize your spirit:
- Good morning to these dancing-ass children.
- Derrel Jazz Johnson shares advice from therapists on coping with pandemic-flavored racial trauma.
- Kelis dropped a video for her new single “Midnight Snacks.”
- WandaVision’s Kathryn Hahn is starring in an Agatha-centered spin-off.
- Simone Keelah Brathwaite felt Michaela Coel’s recent call for introspection deep down in her soul.
- Pierre Bennu curated a playlist, songs in the key of crayons, to accompany his new vinyl-inspired coloring book, Coloring In the Crates
See you tomorrow.
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.
