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
- 400
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
JAPANESE MISO EGGPLANT ("nasu no dengaku") 🍆🍆
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES]
Japanese cooking can be a little intimidating but Nasu no Dengaku is achievable! Trust me! Just remember: a timer is your FRIEND when you’re cooking your eggplants, use your p…
PANCAKES 101 🥞🥞
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This episode is a 101 of making really good pancakes!
And who doesn't love a pancake? Simon and I agree that eating pancakes leaves us feeling GOOD, which means that (scienti…
Hacks for getting your kids to try new things 🚸
One thing listeners constantly hit us up about is HOW TO FEED FUSSY KIDS.
Luckily, Simon and I *both* have fussy eating kids and - lucky or not, we both have immense experience in trying to feed them…
Use it up: Nut Butter Cookies 🥜🧈🍪
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES]
Need to rethink that jar of Almond Butter you bought in a fit of do-good resolve? I can relate to LOVING the look of an expensive jar of nut butter while in the shops but once…
Croissants 🥐
Listen to this pod because CROISSANTS are "having a moment"!
HOT TIP FROM YOUR HOSTS: Never, ever, try to make croissants yourself! Let the expert bakers do that!
As a well-seasoned cookbook editor …
ANCHOVY SOLDIERS 🐟🍞
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Your word-loving, food-adoring podcast hosts Yumi and Simon send themselves into paroxysms of delight by both talking about Basque food and Pintxos (!!), and finding for YOU, …
CONVERT A $1 BAG OF ROLLED OATS INTO A $18 GRANOLA 🤑🤑🤑
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Simon and I LOVE granola. But we don’t love paying $18 for what’s essentially a bag of OATS (and don’t get me started on café prices...) Luckily, I used to work in a café wher…
A Failure of Pumpkin 🎃🎃
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES] I had a massive fail with pumpkin, which I'll tell you about in this episode. And many of us have had fails with pumpkin, mostly because we're overwhelmed by the prospect of ta…
SALT AND PEPPER SQUID 🦑🧂🌶️
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A contender for the national dish of Australia is Salt and Pepper Squid. Dearly loved and actually affordable, this is a dish you *can* learn to cook at home.
Also, if you wo…
Black bean chili 🥑
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES] Got a few tins of beans in the cupboard? Chili is a weekly staple in Simon's house. He knows his stuff so I am keen to hear what he does in HIS house because it's guaranteed to…
SCHOOL LUNCHBOX MUFFINS 🧁
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES] Here's my amazing recipe for Banana and Coconut muffins!
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Ingredients
220g sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
4 mank…
FOOLPROOF SUPERMARKET SALMON 🐟
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES] Listen to this episode because it does have some game-changing info about how to get the most out of a piece of fish. Game changing! (Not exaggerating.)
If you have some salmon…
BERRY GLUT "FREEZER" JAM 🍓
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES] If you've stashed berries in the freezer or have an end-of-season glut, here's what to do with them!
Simon's tip: You can't eat them as they used to be, defrosted as the textur…
Revelation Ravioli Soup 🥣
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES] I have a revelation about pre-made, filled pasta! And I had to share it. (You can hear my irritation that Simon had not previously explained this absolute LIFE HACK to me.) But…
USE UP THOSE GREEN HERBS! 🌿🌿
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES] A life-changing tip Simon gives me in this episode is that you don't buy herbs to PLANT IN YOUR GARDEN from the supermarket! Those ones are farmed to be eaten, not replanted in…
HELP! SCHOOL LUNCHES 🥧
[RECIPE IN SHOWNOTES] Warning: I say something ridiculous at the end of this episode that might make you lol or need to lie down.
Okay, so feeding kids is a struggle and feedback we repeatedly get to…
Loaf tins and Madeira cake 🍞
Simon and I both LOVE a loaf tin for "everyday baking perfection".
It's LOW-PRESSURE, low-stakes, but high rewards, and Simon gets so excited in today's episode that he may even actually use a swear …
More SLOW COOKERS! 🥘
Okay so we talked about slow cookers already but this recipe is worth it! Cherry tomatoes are cheap and the stunning reminder that summer is just behind us, and with Simon’s Confit Tomatoes recipe, y…
Slow cookers are AWESOME 🍲
There's pretty much no way to burn food in a slow cooker, and it’s such a GIFT to get home from work and smell the dinner you got started that morning. If you have a slow-cooker gathering dust in you…
MANBABY’S CAKE 👶🍰
People talk about “love languages”? When my son wants to bond with me and hang out and spend time, he asks if we can cook a cake together ...and this is his absolute favourite. It actually is pretty …