5 Minute Food Fix

Recent news stories covered world-wide shortages of CUCUMBERS, in part because of the influence of food tik tokkers!

How much can tik tok influence what we eat?

And speaking of, do you want to try out …

Simon’s recent love affair with miso continues…. This time with a really simple but super delicious Miso, lime and sweet potato bake. It’s super easy - there’s only about a half dozen ingredients tha…

It's not a "humble brag" at all to come all up in our show notes and mention that my OTHER podcast - Ladies, We Need to Talk - won 2 awards in November. One for Best Podcast Sex and Relationships - a…

It's not every day you make a slice that's so yummy you should retire and just become a permanent cake maker, obviously growing EXTREMELY RICH in the process! Lol!

Have you also noticed your fruit n v…

If it's not Moving House season, it's Gift Wrap season (*HELP!*), and Simon is getting amongst it by creating a really impressive but rather easy fish meal.

Pre-heat the oven to 200C

Trim and chop bok…

I sometimes forget that Simon's day job is commissioning and editing cookbooks. The man lives and breathes it.

So we find out what he's been working on (Spoiler: Adam Liaw's latest) - - and then devia…

Fulfilling our remit to make delicious food achievable - THIS EPISODE DELIVERS!

Yes, it is a tiring time to be alive in the world. Politics and world events are GRIM. And yet, one must eat. One must f…

Hetty McKinnon's cookbook 'Community' is an Aussie classic. I remember when women used to give this to each other as a cult gift - so good! Everything from this book is amazing and you can buy it via…

Having a food failure ISN'T unusual. It's part of being a cook.

But there's something particularly painful when it's a whole cake that's ruined.

I relive a recent Pear Cake fail and we talk through wha…

Dinosaur Spaghetti! - AKA Hipster Kale Pasta

1 bunch of kale, leaves torn off the ribs, (ribs composted)

Pop the leaves into a large pot of boiling, salted water.

Cook 30 seconds then drain on a dry, cl…

Yumi has some reflections after she cooked a bit of food for a friend's son's birthday bash.

In short?

There might always be a vomit or 2 if it's an 18th...

Also -? Food that is good at 6pm needs to als…

How do you line the stomachs of the guests celebrating an 18th?

Yumi and Simon both have ideas and experience with this! WHOSE WILL WIN OUT?

If you want to know more about the inari Yumi mentioned, the…

Our second special episode with RecipeTinEats's Nagi Maehashi!

Her new book can be found here.

On this episode, we talk cooking for your dog, where Nagi gets her cooking inspiration, excessive sweetne…

The legendary brains behind Recipe Tin Eats (- one of the world's most widely used cooking and recipe websites -) NAGI MAEHASHI - joins Yumi on today's 5 Minute Food Fix!

They talk about recipe testin…

Not everyone listens to each episode as they drop but if you're here in October, now is the time to start thinking about Christmas. Sorry!

One of my favourite pudding recipes comes from Dan Lepard. I …

In our cookbook, which you can buy here, I have a recipe for 'Wedding Guest Croutons' - theory being that the perfect crouton should be like the perfect wedding guest: Immaculately behaved and never …

Asparagus really is the KING of Vegetable. It has such a short season, is so flavourful and healthy, and best of all, requires the very barest of intervention to make it taste good.

If you're interest…

We've talked about Simon's 'Fully Loaded Banana Bread' on this podcast before... but today Yumi arrives in studio with a massive fail of this tried-and-tested recipe.

Here, we try to unpack what went …

Amazingly, Simon and I are up to 299 episodes of the 5 Minute Food Fix!

Here's what to do with an excess of blueberries.

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