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...
Recent Episodes
482 episodes
Dumplings? YES.
Yumi and Jen unpack some of the latest "trends" in butchering and abusing innocent dumplings.
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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...
Confit Garlic - a magical multi-use potion
Simon has taken the news that Yumi started introducing a tiny bit of her digestive nemesis - GARLIC - into her diet, and he's run with it.
Inspi...
Nuts and Seeds to ENHANCE YOUR SALAD
What do Ottolenghi and Hetty McKinnon have in common?
(Besides best-selling cookbooks?)
They both embrace fancying up seeds and nuts to de...
HEATED RIVALRY TUNA MELT
There's a cult TV show that half the world knows about and is OBSESSED by, and the other half has no idea whatsoever.
That show is Heated Rivalr...
Sour Lentil Soup - Adas bil hamod
Much to Yumi's jealousy... Simon has discovered that his kids actually quite like soup - and a sophisticated one at that!
On this episode you'll...
2-Speed Pilaf!
More genius ideas about how to feed the whole family from the legendary Simon Davis.
In this episode Yumi has a story about how her two younger...
Sami Tamimi's Cauliflower and Yoghurt Rice
This is an incredible recipe from one of my most treasured cookbooks of the past year!
If you love feeling nurtured and nourished by food that i...
Have you seen that viral "cheesecake" recipe?
SIMON'S SPIN ON THIS SILLY INTERNET FAD!
Take 500g of Greek yoghurt
Mix in 2+tbs of honey, 1/2tsp vanilla, zest of one lemon and a pinch o...
NEW EPISODE: The Perfect Piece of Salmon
Yumi shares a bad experience she had with being married.
(It's food-related, trust me.)
And Simon brings in the New Year with a perfect, e...
NEW EPISODES ARE BACK for 2026! 12-hour Greek Lamb Shoulder
There's nothing Yumi loves more than being set on a food adventure!
In this case, it's a friend's new baby that triggers a trip to the butcher a...
Part 2: Nagi, with an amazing DRIZZLE SAUCE
This is the second episode of 5 Minute Food Fix where Nagi and I celebrate yummy things that can make your regular (food) programming pop!
I fin...
LEGENDARY NAGI from RECIPETIN EATS
Yumi was so stoked to speak with fellow Japanese-Australian, the utterly legendary Nagi from Recipe Tin Eats. She has so many great suggestions for wh...