Hot, fresh, cheesy and homemade in less than 30 min!! It just doesn’t get any easier, quicker or tastier, right?!
Okay guys. I’m back at it.
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This granola surpasses any you can buy at the store. It also doesn’t take a lot of effort, so making a weekly batch has become routine in our house.
I sometimes keep the granola plain, and other times, I add maple syrup and nuts. This holiday season, I’ve been making it cinnamon, ginger, and cloves for a subtle spiced flavor.
Give it as a gift or keep it all for yourself!
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These goat cheese pops are like your own personal cheese ball. Each bite is the perfect balance of soft cheese, crumbled bacon, and crushed nuts.
I’ve made these goat cheese lollipops for many different occasions over the years, from holiday gatherings to cocktail parties. Each time, people ask for the recipe.
It’s one of those appetizers that people always remember and request again and again. For me, that’s a sign of success.
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The number of firsts happening here is all a little mind-bendy.
This is my…
first: time writing a post while connected to the internet from an airplane – like literally from the sky. As in right at this very second I’m literally IN THE SKY. We’re so living in the future.
first: time writing a post from my iphone! WHAT! I feel so modern and sneaky. mobile all the way.
first: big trip where I’ve left both my laptop and my DSLR camera at home. 
You don’t even understand. My carry on feels like a dreamy soft pillow – light and free and yayyyy. Thank you iPhone 7 plus for being a phone, camera, and computer.
and most importantly, first: time traveling to Europe with my bae!
Bjork and I are taking the next two weeks to do one of the things we’ve always said we wanted to do but just never took the time to do because life: traveling through Europe.
That little thing called a DUE DATE? BB’s puttin some legit time pressure on those bucket list items. In, like, three seconds there is going to be a huge belly on the scene and then diapers and nurseries and books and school and OMG it’s going to be so great. ❤️
But let’s just go to Europe real quick first.
Our itinerary includes a Viking River Cruise through the southern part of France as well as some off-road adventuring through Switzerland and Germany. We’ll be back in business again in early December, which means we have exactly two weeks dedicated to travel and adventure and bucket-listing.
Since things will be pretty quiet around here for the next week or two, you can catch our Europe updates on my brand new personal Insta account creatively titled @lindsaymostrom. And I’m doing plenty of daily stories from my regular Pinch of Yum insta account.
I hope you all had a great long holiday (those who are in the US) and I’ll see you lovers in two weeks!
Also! if you have recommendations for things to eat and do in Lucerne or Munich or the places in between (we’ll have a rental car and a decent amount of flexibility), please share! The recs we’ve gotten on instagram for Lyon have been 100% fabulous. 
Europe or bust!
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Chicken, prunes, olives, carrots, onions, garlic and ginger are slow-cooked with Moroccan spices to create a flavorful and fragrant dish that you’ll want to make again and again. Serve it over whole-wheat couscous (or cauliflower rice for a low-carb option) with lemon wedges, fresh cilantro, or some chopped pistachios or almonds for a complete meal.
Making stuffed pork tenderloin is easier than you may think and it’s a terrific party dish, especially around the holidays.
Here’s my trick: Instead of tying the stuffed tenderloin together with twine, just wrap it in bacon instead. It’s less demanding, and the bacon makes this an especially rich and flavorful meal. Plus everything is better with bacon, right?
This bacon-wrapped tenderloin seems fancy-ish, but is actually quite quick and easy. Roast a tray of potatoes in the oven at the same time, and dinner is all set.
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A comfort classic that everyone will be fighting for! Crisp on the outside yet so soft, creamy and cheesy on the inside. YESSS!
Guys. I’m alive.
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When I think of the holidays, gingerbread is always the first thing that comes to mind. I can just close my eyes and smell the sweet aromas of spices and ginger swirling in my kitchen right now. Mmm…
I often start off the holidays with a loaf of gingerbread cake, but this year I thought I’d add a fun twist by making gingerbread waffles instead!
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Skinnytaste Dinner Plan (Week 52). I hope every enjoyed their Thanksgiving and spent time with their friends and family! Can you believe Christmas is only 30 days or so away?!? This year has flown by!
Skinnytaste Dinner Plan (Week 52)
Monday: Spinach Lasagna Rolls with salad
Tuesday: Crock Pot Chicken Taco Chili
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Thai Basil Chicken with rice
Friday: Spicy California Shrimp Stacks
Saturday: Dinner Out
Sunday: Sicilian Rice Ball Casserole
When it comes to planning a holiday feast, our family tends to have bigger eyes than stomachs, how about you? I don’t know how we manage to do this every year, but between my parents and I, we make twice as much food as we need!
The benefit of going overboard of course is days of light cooking duties because of all of the leftovers.
Here’s a quick and easy way to use up some of those turkey leftovers—a Turkey Waldorf Salad, with apples and celery like the classic Waldorf, but with roasted pecans instead of walnuts, and dried sweetened cranberries instead of grapes.
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Every Thanksgiving my mother takes what’s left of the turkey carcass and makes a delicious turkey soup that we enjoy for days.
The first step is to make the stock, which you can get started on right after dinner.
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Looking for a truly special gift for a food lover, baker, or pie eater in your life? Take a peek at this limited edition, letterpress printed 2017 Pie Calendar! Every month is a different pie, with a recipe from Simply Recipes, each illustrated by artist Rebekah Tennis, and letterpress printed at Rebekah’s Wild Ink Press studio in Chico, California.
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Did you eat too much stuffing and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving? Here’s a wonderful way to use up any of that leftover turkey if you’re looking for a meal that will be filling yet light.
Wonderfully rich and creamy with the best crisp/crusty topping! Plus, it’s WAY HEALTHIER than the traditional potato gratin!!
When it comes to Thanksgiving, you need to come prepared.
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Looking for a special holiday side? Here’s a festive dish that alternates the flavors and colors of vibrant sweet potatoes with buttery yukon gold potatoes, all sitting on a bed of caramelized onions.
I actually started out to make a gratin, more in the spirit of our gruyere potatoes, perhaps with a breadcrumb topping. But as I experimented with the recipe, the wonderful flavors of the sweet potatoes and potatoes seemed to get lost in the rich toppings.
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When it comes to holiday cooking, my father and I spend weeks deciding who is making the various side dishes. But when it comes to roasting the turkey, there’s no discussion. Of course that task falls to my mother.
Why? True, she has cooked our Thanksgiving turkey for over 50 years, so she knows what she’s doing.
But the real reason is that her roast turkey is always perfectly done, the breast never dried out, but tender and full of flavor.
How does she do it? She cooks the turkey breast-side down. While the turkey roasts, the juices fall down towards the breast, resulting in the most succulent meat. The breast is also more protected from the heat, which helps keep it getting too dried out.
She also uses a meat thermometer to take out any guess work of when the turkey is done.
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That ooey gooey marshmallow topping!!!! All made in a crockpot. So easy without taking any oven space. Double win!
Thanksgiving is in T-minus 48 hours.
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Leftover Thanksgiving turkey is transformed into quick and easy tacos! Just a few ingredients and less than 15 minutes, this is great for a quick lunch or dinner.
I know, I know. Who in the world has a problem with leftover whipped cream?
But let’s imagine a hypothetical situation wherein you have misjudged your guests’ enthusiasm for whipped cream-topped pie following a big holiday meal, and now you find yourself faced with a fairly large amount leftover.
Do you throw it away? Do you save it, knowing that it will likely lose its billowy magic over the next few days?
Let me offer a third option: Freeze your leftover whipped cream for later.
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WHOA! The week of Thanksgiving?
The week of CRAY HOLIDAY SHOPPING?!
Wowz. This season has gone especially fast for me, maybe because of that whole being pregnant thing, I don’t know. Does having an actual baby inside you make time go faster? It has to. But here we are, getting ready to celebrate the holidays with our friends and family, and dreaming of all the gifts we want to buy for ourselves our people.
For today’s post, rather than give you suggestions for Thanksgiving recipes (although, may I quickly recommend SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE and BRUSSELS SPROUT SALAD), I thought I would share with you some of my all-time favorite things just so happen to make for great gifts, whether you yourself are the Modern Girl or you are gifting to the Modern Girl or you have nothing to do with Modern Girls. It doesn’t really matter, okay? It was just a catchy title and it can be interpreted however you want – this is just a collection of things, by topic, that we love using in our life and that make for amazing holiday gifts.
Also worth noting that 95% of these are gifts you can buy on Amazon, which means, if you have Prime, that you will get them shipped to you in a speedy 48-hours and you can spend the rest of your most wonderful time of the year eating saltine toffee and sipping away on your eggnog.
I used to be a traditionalist must-go-to-the-mall Christmas shopper, but in the last few years I think Bjork has really made me into a person who can appreciate the beauty of online shopping: just me, at home, in my jammies, with Amy Grant Christmas playing on the Jambox and minty hot chocolate in my copper mug.
Seriously just try it and you will never-ever go back.
Wishing the best to your crew in the next few days as you gather for what I hope is a feeeeeast of epic proportions!
Nordicware Crown Bundt | Dutch Oven | Salt Box | Kitchen Aid Mixer (Mini) | Truffle Oil | Whirly Pop | Salted Caramel Chocolate Bars | Blendtec or Vitamix | Instant Pot | Toaster | Hammered Copper Mug Set | Marble Mortar and Pestle | Cookie Mix | Egg Poacher | Inspiralizer | Food Processor | Cast Iron Oil | Nespresso Coffee and Espresso Maker | Silpat Nonstick Baking Mat | Cast Iron Pan
Inspiralizer: Healthy eaters? Veg heads? People who like to get their vegetable on? This is one of THE MOST fun toys a person could have in the kitchen. I use mine all the time. Modern, practical, and very fitspo.
Instant Pot: An all-around amazing contraption. It is like an upscale, super cool, modern version of a crockpot. I’ve been playing around with it for the last few months and we’ve made a million and one soups – like lentil soup, chicken soup, veggie soup – all in 30 MINUTES. Wait, though – we’re talking about soups that normally take 6+ hours in the crockpot. Done in 30 minutes. Boom. Instant Pot doesn’t mess around. Rice cooks in 5 MINUTES, and a whole roast? 1-2 hours, no problem. Also fun for people who like to make their own yogurt and goofy/clever things like that.
Dutch Oven: Let me just direct you back here for the ultimate list of reasons why I love this beauty. At $50, it makes a perfect, classy holiday gift for your favorite food lover. Whoever the recipient is: they need to know about the miracle no knead bread because that should absolutely be the first recipe made in this pan. ♡
Nespresso Coffee and Espresso Maker: Bjork and I and our whole POY team have all used this magical machine for the last few years, and it makes HANDS DOWN the best coffee and espresso of any single serve machine out there. I don’t know how to say this without sounding snobby, so maybe I just need to embrace the coffee snobbery here – the Nespresso is just miles ahead of the traditional Keurig or single serve coffee maker. The pods are recyclable, the coffee is high quality, and the price is spot-on considering you can get this instead of those espresso makers that cost, what, like, $1,000? No way, man. This is your winner.
Hammered Copper Mug Set: Just way too cute. Also, the entire set is less than $50. Hello NYE!
Sweatpants | Makeup Brush Kit | Rose Water Spray | Essential Oil Diffuser | Kelly Moore Bag (casual) | Minimalist Necklace | Fairbault Wool Throw | Hair Dryer | Kelly Moore Bag (leather) | Straightener Brush | Sea Salt Spray | Plaid Infinity Scarf | Stacking Rings | Soy Candle | Leila Lou Natural Perfume | Water Bottle
Sweatpants: I may have mentioned these 500 times before, but it’s worth mentioning again – these are sweatpants that I would live my entire life in. They are SO COMFY – not in the way your old ratty sweatpants are comfy, but in the way of luxurious, cute, stylish sweatpants, which makes them awesome for gifting. I normally don’t love buying clothes as gifts, but this little number is a real treat that I am confident anyone and everyone, regardless of style, would love to chill out in.
Fairbault Wool Throw: It’s Christmasy, it’s cozy and adorable, it looks good in anyone’s house. Win.
Kelly Moore Bag (casual): I have had this for two years and I have taken it evvvvvverywhere. It’s a camera bag meets travel bag meets computer bag meets diaper bag meets any kind of bag you need. With tons of adjustable built-in storage compartments, it is a bag lover’s dream. The casual olive green canvas version (which I have) is nice because it can be unisex – and sometimes I just need Bjork to carry it around for a second, know what I mean? #pregnant The leather version is more feminine and it’s on my own personal Christmas wish list. Future baby bag goals!
Sea Salt Spray: Just learned about this miracle on my trip to San Diego – who knew that such a basic, minimalist, natural spray could be so awesome for texturizing hair? I’m obsessed.
Leila Lou Natural Perfume: Super nice, light, good-for-everyone scent that is made with essential oils so you can be yummy-smelling and CLEAN clean. The roller is super convenient and the price point is awesome for gifting.
50mm 1.8 lens | Natural Light Sunrise Alarm Clock | Amazon Echo | Beats | Canon 6d | Jambox Mini | Pebble Smartwatch | Instant Polaroid Mini Camera | iPhone 7 Plus | Mobile Printer for iPhone and Android | Book case | Amazon Fire Stick | Q Bracelet iPhone Charger | Charging Station | FitBit | iPhone case
50mm 1.8 lens: If you have a photography lover in the family, this lens is an awesome upgrade from the basic lenses that come with most camera kits. I have a lens that is very close to this one – just a tad more expensive (50mm 1.4) and it is my one lens that I would literally use for everything if I could only pick one. This lens is super similar to that but just at a more approachable and giftable price point.
Beats: This is the kind of technology most people would love, and feel cool getting, and enjoy using regularly… but wouldn’t necessarily buy for themselves. Making it the perfect gift, amiright?
Instant Polaroid Mini Camera: We don’t have this exact version, but we have a very similar Polaroid and it’s so super fun to snap pictures when people come over to our house. This would be the ideal gift for someone who likes photography and loves being social. Also IT’S BLUE AND IT’S MINI. So, obviously.
Mobile Printer for iPhone and Android: Yes, we have a Polaroid AND this. But this is different – it connects to your smartphone and allows you to print mini pictures of your smartphone photos. We use this as a daily photo journaling tool. Great for techie moms and dads… or, um, dog lovers.
iPhone case: I have this basic Apple silicon case, which I actually love and highly recommend for any minimalist tech lovers in your circle. But just the general idea here is that phone cases make great gifts. Usually they’re anywhere from $20-$100 and you can pick something that speaks to that person’s personality. I often shop for unique phone cases on Etsy!
100 Days of Real Food | Small Great Things | A Man Called Ove | Cooking for Jeffrey | The Nightingale | The Nightingale | Saveur Cookbook | The Magnolia Story | Present Over Perfect | Kindle Paperwhite | Skinnytaste Cookbook
Small Great Things: I just started this one so I can’t vouch for it as a whole book, but so far – amazing concept. This is a book for thinkers who like to process big issues (think racism, privilege, and power) through complex characters and emotionally gripping drama. Love u, Jodi.
The Nightingale: Another drama, and this one has characters that I am still, to this day, totally in love with, along with themes of family, love, grief, and forgiveness. For your book lovers who don’t mind a good book-cry now and then – this is probably the one.
Saveur Cookbook: Hands down, my favorite cookbook. It’s got some recipes that are a little out there for the regular cooks of the world, but most of them are approachable, unique, fun, and all-around reliable. I get so much blog inspiration from this cookbook.
Kindle Paperwhite: Honestly, JUST SKIP THE BOOKS and get this gem for your bookworm. Even for a me, a self-proclaimed have-to-hold-a-physical-book-in-my-hands type of reader, it’s so amazing to be able to download books and take them on the go with me, all in one sleek device. The Paperwhite version features a beautiful screen that is not really a screen at all, which is why I love it. No glare, with just-right backlighting. This is the modern girl’s guide to gifts, after all.
One final quick Thanksgiving note: I’m so thankful for you. Yes, you there, reading this slash holiday shopping at work (I won’t tell), or you there, on your phone at the gym, or you there, checking your email from a coffee shop. I love having you reading the blog, following along on Instagram, and just generally being people who make what I do fun and worthwhile. It wouldn’t be what it is with you, so thank you for everything that you bring to my life. I am insanely grateful.
Happy early Thanksgiving – whether you stay close to home or travel to be with family or share a meal with friends or decide to hit the malls for the chaos of Black Friday – I hope you have so much fun and I hope your next few days are filled with gratitude and love. ♡
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