5 Minute Food Fix
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5 Minute Food Fix
Does the question “What’s for dinner?” make you groan with despair?Are you lacking both time AND inspiration?Author Yumi Stynes and cookbook publisher Simon Davis are both busy, love food, and here to help.In a podcast you can whack on for the drive home from work, you get meal ideas realistic enoug...
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Friendship-building cheese biscuits
Impressing friends with one's cooking skills is truly one of life's joys. Yumi has found a new way that is super easy and you probably have 90% of the...
A beautiful, hand-made Gnocchi that's easy
Yumi organised an adult playdate for HERSELF with a friend for some cooking fun.
It didn't work out exactly to plan but they *did* get to make t...
Ottolenghi's 'Bridget Jones's' Salmon
It's time to fancy up your humble piece of fried salmon with a recipe from a cookbook that's a couple of years old but Yumi dusted it off and has been...
Self-Saucing Marmalade Pudding
Yumi is threatening to host a dog re-naming ceremony to honor Norweigan striker, community boyfriend and everyone's emotional support Viking, Erling H...
Bitter, Bitter Salad
Yumi and Simon have been watching the World Cup football and it's been both fun and heartbreaking. If you're feeling bitter about Australia (or Japan,...
New Burnt Basque Cheesecake
ARE ALL RICOTTAS CREATED EQUAL?
It's a question to kick off today's episode.
Yumi has also been entertaining one of her besties, and whene...
Orzo Tray Bake
ORZO TRAY BAKE WITH FETTA AND PEPPERS
Turn oven on to 220C.
Quarter 4 peeled red onions, one whole chilli, one roughly chopped red pepper,...
Birthday? How about Helen Goh's recipe for Chocolate Cake
Simon and Yumi belly-laugh over some food-related nonsense and it's contagious, so listen if you need to get some sunshine today. Yumi also shares a b...
A Use for that Leftover Chilli Oil
Yumi and Simon haven't seen much of each other recently so have much to catch up on, including what's going on with Yumi's extremely adoring foster do...
Pasta al Limone
There's no need to feel sad and scurvyish this winter with this pasta that Simon has been regularly making that bursts with lemony flavour and sunshin...
WORLD CUP WINTER DAAL
SIMON'S BACK!
Yumi is veering wildly off her personal brand and getting deeply engaged with the Men's World Cup football (!) - and wants to talk...
Dumplings? YES.
Yumi and Jen unpack some of the latest "trends" in butchering and abusing innocent dumplings.
If you want to order Jen's favourites?
Here...
Adelaide food royalty 'Pawana'
Yumi is excited about the events she's going to be part of that includes a one-on-one chat with Adelaide food legend and the woman behind 'Pawana' res...
VIRAL Congee Pot Pie
Yumi and Jen laugh uncontrollably as they try to convince each other of the veracity of adding various foods to a pot pie.
Lasagna?
Possib...
The Kitchen Gender Divide
One of Yumi's friends went away with a group of friends for the weekend and what transpired in the kitchen and food planning has been cause for a paus...
Resting Bitch Face
Yumi and Jen are EXHAUSTED. Yumi is recording in her pyjamas (but only if you can see from the waist down), and decides to go rogue on today's episode...
My Day on a Plate...
Fresh off their success at the Sydney Writers Festival, Yumi and Jen get the lols remembering the utter nonsense that was My Day on a Plate. There's a...
Water Spinach and a priceless insight into why people slather on Chilli Crisp Oil!
Yumi Stynes and Jennifer Wong make each other laugh and Yumi recounts a story of going grocery shopping with Jen and being feeling like she was with a...
The end of (school) ethnic food shame
Yumi Stynes and Jennifer Wong dig into ideas around the trouble with ethnic food shame as your origin story.
They also have a little yap about O...
Optimizing San Choi Bao
In today's episode, Yumi and Jen dig deep into where San Choi Bao gets it SO RIGHT as a weeknight dinner that everyone can make out of whatever they h...
What is "China Maxxing"?
"You've met me at a very Chinese time in my life..."
Americans are "China Maxxing" - discovering food, Chinese medicine, and other cultural hab...
Prepper Bread
Yumi and guest-host Jennifer Wong share their anxieties about what useful skills they'd have in a post-apocalyptic wasteland...
...And Yumi com...
"Fake" Chinese Food VS Real...
Yumi gets Jennifer Wong to explain how every regional Chinese restaurant in Australia ...somehow, mysteriously, shares the same menu?
You can fi...
Dips and Guac
Jennifer Wong joins Yumi again to talk about DIP - and whether supermarket dip is any good!
EDAMAME GUAC
400g good quality, ripe avocado<...
Yumi and Jen Wong - talk Inheritance in Cooking...
Special guest host Jennifer Wong is going to be onstage with Yumi at this year's Sydney Writers Festival's GREAT DEBATE. It's always an absolute hoot...
Japanese Fine Omelette
Throwing together a Poké Bowl or Donburi (or "Buddha Bowl" if we must) is a fantastic exercise in customising a dish to suit both individual taste and...
Nigella (and Simon's) REAL LIFE Chicken
Simon's half-arsed sell on this dish is hilarious and worth the price of admission - but the meal itself is a keeper.
It's his riff on a Nigella...
Tuna Crudo with Fingerlime Dressing
FEEDING KIDS can be one of the most thankless elements of parenting.
They don't like your stuff!
The want the same thing over and over aga...
Superstar Salad
YUMI has 3 questions for Simon:
PLUS: we go deep into fandom for Anna Jones's WEDGE SALAD WITH RANCH DRESSING recipe from her amaz...
Old Fashioned Treacle Tart!
The change in weather has made Simon crave flavours of home... He is particularly inspired by a memoir by food writer Nigel Slater.
It's a nosta...
"Pretentious" Potatoes
Yumi had a delightful dinner party experience over the weekend and urgently needs to talk about it!
And as a consequence, urgently needs to talk...
THE GOSPEL OF HOT CROSS BUNS
It's HOT CROSS BUNS SEASON and everyone has an opinion on What To Do (and what NOT to do) with this most raisiny of buns.
What are your thoughts...
How to nail Yum Cha
Simon is BACK! And what a welcome return.
Yumi and Simon discuss what it was like to have comedian Jennifer Wong onboard as guest host, and Yum...
A Budget Instant Ramen - hack!
Special Guest Host Jennifer Wong shares a couple of great ways to make instant ramen LESS GRIM.
And if you love Jen and want to see her in perso...
INFLUENCER HACKS
Both Jennifer Wong and Yumi have had experience with going viral on social media - which they've decided is low-key pointless - but it doesn't mean th...
GADGETS - good and bad!
What is the dumbest gadget you ever bought?
(you can email if you like: foodfixemail@gmail.com )
Yumi and guest-host Jennifer Wong share t...
Betty/Ruth Reichl's Frugal Roast Chicken
In these terrible times Yumi is self-soothing by re-watching her favourite TV show and Jennifer Wong is re-reading a tried, tested and quite wonderful...
Every cookbook has buried treasure
JENNIFER WONG joins me as guest host again (don't worry Simon, we miss you!) - and we talk about her amazing book 'Chopsticks or Fork?' - discovering...
A bad food trend...and a REALLY GOOD curry oil
Simon takes a break from Food Fixing and so I rope in Jennifer Wong, host of 'Chopsticks or Fork?' on ABC, a show about food, that is also a book.
Eat, Sleep, Bean, Repeat
Simon's Creamy Bean Gratin
METHOD:
2 tins of white beans, drained well, or 300g flageolet beans soaked overnight then cooked for 30-40 min...