Pinch of Yum is Hiring: Shoot Assistant

Well hello there! It’s a bright and sunny day here in Minneapolis and – SURPRISE! – we are hiring again!

PS. Triple exclamation point in the first line! you’re so welcome!!!

Over the last 6-9 months, Bjork and I have had the opportunity to build our little Pinch of Yum team and it’s been awesome. That’s putting it lightly. We love our team so very much. Here’s who we’ve currently got working on POY behind the scenes:

• Lindsay – me! hello again. I’m the blog content creator / day to day manager of things.
• Bjork – my husband. ♡ He acts as tech consultant / business advisor / taste tester.
• Jenna – our office manager. She is email / social media / organizer of everything.
• Alana – our video intern. She does planning / filming / all things video.
• Stephanie – my sister! She’s our grocery shopper / cleaner upper / hands in the videos.
• Sage – mascot.

And now we are looking to add to the team again – sort of. We won’t be adding a new position necessarily, but since my sister Stephanie is off to new exciting academia-type things this fall (u go girl), we need someone to fill her position of Shoot Assistant.

We fully believe that the best candidate for this job is going to be someone who is already in this little online community in some way, shape, or form – maybe a reader, maybe a commenter, maybe just an occasional stalker or Instagram liker. Someone who already has a sense of what we’re all about and who wants to be a part of an ever-changing, fast-moving, fun and light-hearted team atmosphere with us as we continue to develop Pinch of Yum.

Read the description below, and if this position sounds like the right fit for you, SCORE! Please apply.

And if not, I have a huge favor to ask you in exchange for many more yummy recipes in the days and months ahead: will you share this job opportunity with your friends who are of the friendly, adaptable, likes-to-cook variety? The ones that would love a part-time job working around food all day (so basically, all of them)? The ones who would just so totally thrive in a part-time job like this?

job description

Position Title: Shoot Assistant

Main Thing You’ll Do: Make the photography and cooking process for Pinch of Yum more efficient.

Other Important Thing You’ll Do: Assist our tiny video team in creating recipe videos. So what I’m saying right now is YOU’LL BE THE HANDS. This could be the start of the story you’ll tell when people ask how you started your career as a food video hand model.

Hours: 15-20 hours/week

Schedule: We are very open to developing a schedule that works for you – ideally it would be a set consistent schedule of 2-3 days each week.

Location: Minneapolis, MN – all videos and photos are done in our studio in the North Loop

Compensation: Dependent on the qualifications of the applicant

Starting Date: August 2016

Examples of Daily Responsibilities:

• FOOD PREP: think chopping, sautéing, mixing, and making hundreds of delicious sauces in the food processor.
• GROCERY SHOPPING: I’m just telling you now, there will be some epically large grocery trips.
• FOOD STYLING: if you have any artistic inclinations, I might ask you to help set up a shot or hold something or consult with the best way to photograph a recipe. Two brains are better than one!
• CONTENT IDEATION: see note about two brains.
• CLEAN UP: dishes? Ain’t no thing for you cause you are the cleaning BOSS and we already love you for it.
• VIDEOS: involving co-planning and co-executing the recording of our recipe videos. It’s a real good time.
• COMMUNICATING WITH A TEAM: we love to (and need to) Slack / message / chat on a regular basis, and we also communicate strictly in GIFs so please start preparing your GIF collection asap. (That was a joke-lie. We use actual words sometimes.)

Looking for a Person Who Is:

• Super excited about food
• Confident and comfortable in the kitchen
• Highly organized
• Able to follow directions
• Able to take initiative without direct supervision
• Able to get work done quickly
• Fun to be around

The application deadline is Sunday, July 17th at 11:59pm CST.

You guys are amazing. Thank you so much for reading the blog and supporting it by bringing us the best people. (Because people who love food are ALWAYS the best people.)

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Raw-mazing Salted Chocolate Snack Bars

 

Just gonna warn you, I’m a hot happy mess today.

• Hot as in it’s actually hot here. Needs-air-conditioning type weather. This is a strange and wonderful feeling that I have missed for the last 364 days and I am fully prepared to enjoy every hot Minnesota second of it.
• Happy as in pep in my step cause it’s a sunny Monday and summer is rocking my world. This weekend was all about outdoor time and life is good and imma bouta celebrate the sun with RAWMAZING CHOCOLATE SNACK BARS. Can’t even hold me down. It might get obnoxious.
• Mess as in covered with chocolate sauce and raw oat-pecan-date crumble from these bars. Literal chocolate sauce explosion on my face. Which I guess is fitting, since it just brings us back to happy?

Every time it’s summer here in Minnesota and I start to come alive a little bit (a lot) after many months of sad weather, I ask myself: WHY DO I LIVE HERE.

There are places all around the world that have Minnesota-summer-like weather every single day and hour and minute of the year. What is the deal with us and our obsession with Minnesota. Like, get over it already. But then every time I think about things like a non-white Christmas, my heart feels sad. And also… um… no, that’s probably it. I officially live here solely for white Christmases.

 

 

Okay, and friends and family and not being loners. I guess there’s that, too. Sometimes Bjork and I talk – just for fun, mom! don’t panic – about moving somewhere warm. I mean, we have total location independence with our jobs (s/o to the internet) so tell me: where should we be headed? California? Arizona? Too crowded and earthquakey? Too much hot desert wasteland? I would be lying if I said I hadn’t thought about the move to either of these paradise places.

I just feel like I would be a better version of myself if I lived in warm weather all the time and could look out my window at palm trees and stuff. I’m not talking about HOT warm weather. Our year in the HOT warm Philippines was a beautiful, rich, so-glad-we-did-it experience. Also generally not my best year as a person in life. I basically wilted the minute we got off the plane and did not recover until we landed back in the US. So is Arizona too hot then? Would California kill me? From a distance, both are looking pretty palm-tree-heavy, warm-weather-loving amazing.

Hey you guys, do you love reading a food blog where we mostly talk about the weather?

Let’s regroup.

This can tie together, I think, because whether you live in lovely warm Minnesota and are currently experiencing THE BEST WARM WEATHER OF YOUR LIFE or you live in the smothering heat of the Philippines or or the outdoor sauna that is the entire state of Florida, these no-bake rawmazing chocolate snack bars are for you.

They are RAW(mazing) and no-bake and cold and naturally sweet and extremely simple and just everything good, tucked away in your freezer waiting for you at a moment’s hungry notice. They remind me of these epic bars my mom used to make growing up = Chocolate Revel Bars? anyone? = but with a little modern wannabe-hipster flair.

To start us off: oats, pecans, dates, coconut oil, and sea salt are going to make you a lovely glow-worthy crust.

Then: coconut oil, maple syrup (or whatever other natural liquid sweetener you like such as honey or agave or brown rice syrup FANSAY), and cocoa powder are going to make your chocolate layer which shall remind you of a chocolate frosting but more simple and more clean and more likely to end up all over your face.

And then finally, we add a little crumble on top and refrigerate or freeze, and LUCKY US!

We are #blessed with these rawmazing chocolate snack bars for all the happy summer times.

If anyone else is contemplating a move, I’ll just say this: winters can be just a tiny bit of a thing, but Minnesota in the summer – around a lake, with a dog AND with friends obviously meant to say that first, and eating good food such as World Street Kitchen’s bangkok burritos and homemade Sebastian Joe’s ice cream – it is possibly the best thing a person could ever experience in a lifetime.

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Raw-mazing Salted Chocolate Snack Bars

Author: Pinch of Yum, inspired by Everyday Detox Cookbook

Serves: 12-14

 

Ingredients

Crust:

• 1½ cups pecan halves
• 1½ cups rolled oats
• 8 whole medjool dates, pitted
• ½ cup coconut oil, melted
• a pinch of coarse sea salt

Chocolate Filling Layer:

• ½ cup cocoa powder
• ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
• ¼ cup liquid sweetener - agave, maple syrup, or honey (more or less to taste)

Instructions

1. Crust: Pulse all ingredients for the crust in a food processor until a sticky dough mixture forms. Set aside about ¾ cup crust mixture. Press the remaining crust mixture into a 9x5 loaf pan lined with parchment paper.
2. Chocolate: Whisk the chocolate filling ingredients in a small mixing bowl until smooth. Pour over crust.
3. Topping: Sprinkle remaining crust on top and press gently to get it to stay put in the chocolate mixture. Sprinkle with extra sea salt if you're obsessed with sea salt not that I know a-ny-thing about that. ;)
4. Chill: Place the whole thing in the freezer and chill for 2 hours. Cut into bars and serve!

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15 Minute Lo Mein

Hel-lo-lo-mein! This 15-minute wonder is absolutely my new go-to for a quick summer Asian noodle stir fry. Lo Mein FTW!

Glowing Grilled Summer Detox Salad

The get-out-the-grill, stock-up-on-summer-produce, Detox Salad days are upon us! With tons of fresh tomatoes, grilled romaine, shrimp, avocado and cilantro and lime, and I couldn’t love it more.

Avocados and cucumbers! tomatoes and bell peppers!

Grilled corn and romaine and little skewers of shrimp!

Herbs and salt and citrus!

AHHHHH!

Gang’s all there, like all of it together in a bowl making dreams come true. It’s too good to be real life, almost. Especially considering that not only is this a flavor-texture-color rainbow of delight, but it is healthy healthy healthy and will bring on your summer glow.

You know how summer is. Repeat nights of patio-lounging too late with friends, or the week-long trip up to the cabin, or any other warm weather situation wherein drinks, chips, and dips were all you ever really needed… until the moment you started to feel a little overdone on the salt and carbs, and then suddenly they weren’t all you needed anymore.

One thing though: even when you were ready to graduate from the Chips And Dip Lifestyle, you still needed food that tasted good. Always, guys. It always needs to taste good because we do not compromise on our core values. Promise me right now that you will not compromise.

So then you bought some good strong romaine hearts, and maybe shrimp or maybe chicken or maybe neither, and a bunch of other colorful veggies from the farmers market, and you opened up the grill.

Creamy avocado cilantro dressing with a jalapeño thrown in for good measure, a blend of grilled chopped food and raw chopped food, and you soaking in the glow of summer. This is June’s finest hour.

Can we talk briefly about how uninspiring romaine lettuce is –> UNLESS GRILLED? I could literally just eat salted grilled lettuce straight for a meal. This sounds so shady, I know it, but my friends Alex and Sonja taught me the ways of grilled romaine a few summers ago and I haven’t gone back since.

Also, just in case we needed another reason to make large vats of avocado cilantro dressing in the months of June, July, and August, we have it right here. Brushed on top of those little skewers of shrimp? UGH too perfect.

Truth, guys – we eat this on the reg for a good summer reset. And also for a chance for me to sit on the patio and have a white wine spritzer while supervising the grill situation. S/o to bae for his grill mastery.

Detox salad for the win!

Say hello to Happy Glow Food for the skin, body, and summer soul! Mwah, mwah, mwah.

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Best Detox Grilled Chopped Salad

Author: Pinch of Yum

Serves: 4-6

 

Ingredients

For The Grill:

• 3 ears fresh sweet corn, husked
• 4 hearts Romaine lettuce
• 1 lb. jumbo tail on shrimp
• olive oil and salt

Other Salad Stuff:

• 2 cups chopped tomatoes
• 2 cups chopped cucumbers
• 2 cups chopped yellow bell pepper
• cilantro avocado dressing

Instructions

1. Salad Prep: Make the dressing. Chop the tomatoes, cucumbers, and bell peppers. Set aside about ⅓ cup dressing to brush on the shrimp while grilling.
2. Grilling: Heat the grill to medium high heat. Brush the corn with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Wrap in foil. Wash and dry the romaine, cut in half lengthwise keeping the stem intact, and brush with olive oil and salt. Thread the shrimp onto skewers for easy grilling. Brush with olive oil and salt. Grill times: corn (wrapped in foil) for 20-25 minutes, turning every 5 minutes // lettuce (directly on the grill) for about 5 minutes // shrimp (directly on the grill) for about 5 minutes. Brush the reserved dressing onto the shrimp as it grills for extra yummy flavor.
3. Assembly: Cut the stem off the romaine and loosely chop it up. Cut the corn off the cob. Toss everything together with dressing.

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MORE TASTY SALADS:

Super Clean Broccoli Salad

Winter Spa Salad with Lemon Chicken

Spicy Southwestern Salad with Avocado Dressing

Green Goddess Quinoa Summer Salad

Toasted Bread and Parmesan Kale Salad

Chopped Thai Salad with Sesame Garlic Dressing

Shrimp and Avocado Salad with Miso Dressing

Rainbow Chicken Salad with Almond Honey Mustard Dressing

Vietnamese Chicken Salad with Rice Noodles

 

 

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