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 enough to be cooked that night, AND you get laughs while learning more about the food you've been cooking every day.
Easy recipes and cooking hacks that will save you time and get you loving food again. For recipes, videos and laughs, check out: instagram.com/5minutefoodfix/?hl=en https://www.tiktok.com/@5minutefoodfix
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 399
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Zucchini and Lemon Bundt Cake
Why DO people cook sweets with vegetables?
Are they trying to use up a glut?
Trick the people they care about into eating more veg?
OR - does it genuinely work as a flavour add-in?
Today we dive into BUN…
Cookbook trial!
Yumi is drawn to a book called The Regional Italian Cookbook but hits some speed humps in trying to make the perfect Potato Cake.
Can you pronounce Spressa delle Giudicarie?
In this episode you can he…
White Pepper Chicken Congee
Simon is full of inspiration and new information about PEPPER.
So he's got a lovely recipe for a WHITE PEPPER CHICKEN CONGEE.
Rinse a cup of Jasmine rice.
Add it to a pot with 7 cups of chicken stock, 1…
Cacio e Pepe - beans
'Cacio e Pepe' is having a moment - but Simon has a fantastic spin on the idea that makes it a great dish for ONE (*side eye Yumi*) and cuts the amount of carbs.
Use one jar of fancy white beans, drai…
How to add interest (and spice) to a curry
What is a Tarka? Simon explains and there's a really good picture of what it looks like on top of a daal here.
CASHEW SPICE TARKA
1/4 cashews
1 tbs ginger
2 sprigs curry leaves
1/4 tsp nigella seeds
1/2 ts…
JATZ Crackers Chicken!
I won't name the restaurant because it's gorgeous and fantastic and deserves every success!
JATZ CRACKERS CHICKEN
Marinate chicken tenders or thigh fillets cut into strips in Greek yoghurt with a pinch…
One-Tray Baked Dinners
On this episode, Simon reveals just how much he listens to Yumi's work on Double J, and reminisces about when his kids were so little he had to make lots of tray-bakes, because they're very "set-and-…
TIRAMISU! BEST DESSERT IN THE WORLD?
Simon is very caffeinated and VERY stoked with his new coffee machine.
What could he possibly use coffee in - for cooking?
The obvious answer is TIRAMISU. Both your hosts have extensive experience maki…
Prawn Pasta Peace
Who DOESN'T adore a linguine or spaghetti - with prawns?
It's one of my favourites (Yumi) and it's been a goal of mine this year to figure out the best recipe for making it at home. For myself. Cos - …
Simon's "Freezer Girl" era
Apparently we’re in our Freezer Girl Era now – – and yes, I know I’m a boy. But this trend?
I’m fully on board. It’s about filling your freezer with little things that make weeknight cooking feel like…
Super-Cute Pasta Salad
It feels like Spring and Summer are around the corner, and Yumi is excited about a pasta salad that can be served warm and has a super-cute, mouth-pleasing texture that may well intern it into the FO…
LAUGHTER THERAPY - and Stew
Apologies in advance!
Your hosts completely lose it and start laughing like hyenas over the Netflix doco 'Poop Cruise' - which is not for the faint-hearted!
Listen along though - it's good for you to …
TOUM - A Lebanese Garlic Sauce that's beautifully fun to make
To make the Toum, blitz
6 garlic cloves
2 egg whites
2 tablespoons lemon juice in a food processor.
While it’s running, slowly drizzle in 1½ cups of vegetable oil until it thickens into a fluffy white…
Cooking DEVIL'S FOOD - with kids!
Yumi's son is the main budding chef in the brood, and he's obsessed with this book by Reece Hignell. It means Yumi and Manbaby have tried MANY recipes from the book, including this one for a giant De…
Making an "average" dinner better
Sometimes a dinner is SO BAD that it just has to go straight to compost.
Sorry, inner-tightass, but it's true.
Simon shares a recent take-away food experience that would get a less-busy man writing ang…
CODE CRACKED: Office Lunch!
It's with some amazement that your hosts reflect on the fact that they're both currently working in offices.
LIKE, HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
Yumi struggles with boredom in meetings, and has directed a lot …
2 Nasty Bananas!
Yumi has come up with a way to use up 2 really, really nasty bananas - in a way the kids won't even notice.
2 NASTY BANANAS -> CHOC CHIP MUFFINS
2 nasty, dead-looking bananas 180g
55g melted butter
1 egg
…
'UPGRADED' Greek Salad
Is it offensive to say you've "upgraded" an absolute classic?
In this case, it's not Simon making the claim - it's from an online recipe... But enough users are in the comments RAVING about the so-cal…
Cheese Board Minimalism
Your hosts explain the hows and whys of a perfect CHEESE BOARD - and I think you're gonna learn something today. It really is within reach to make a cheese board classy AND effortless - by stripping …
Sticky Coconut Chicken and Rice
Your favourite cooking nerds get EXCITED over an internet recipe that has the Comments Section going off.
You know how they say "you should never read the comments"?
Not in this case!
The recipe is here…