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
IN SEASON! Rhubarb, baby
Rhubarb only has a short season, but that just makes it more glorious!
It *does* require sweetening, so how do you measure what's the appropriate amount without killing the delicate, perfumed flavour?
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Versatile Workhorse Sauce
This episode is a game-changer for the time-poor home cook.
You've got some zucchini, broccoli stems, a few withered cherry tomatoes and an eggplant looking more wizened than Gandalf?
Use them up in th…
SEASONAL AVOCADOS - FUSSY KID SPECIAL
Avocados being as cheap as they are right now (May 2024) feels like a TREAT.
So what can we do with them and how do we get our kids to eat them?
Yumi has a couple of ways to get them into your body! An…
Recommendation: Can We Be Real?
Today we're taking a break from the old routine. I've got a recommendation for you that is NOT food related.
Check out the podcast "Can We Be Real?" hosted by two of my friends - Meshel Laurie and S…
Let's raise a toast... to Toast
From bolognese on toast for one, to a GLORIOUS tuna and tomato on toast for 2 - 4, today's episode is a chance to shed shame around picking the easy route to dinner. Toast is FINE. Toast is GOOD. And…
Share Plate Beef with Pomegranate
A share plate of steak is a great way to centre this nourishing ingredient while keeping it light - and dare I say - digestible?
Based on a recipe by the wonderful Sabrina Gahyour, this is a beautifu…
Winter Veg Fritters - with AMAZING HACK
I love VEG FRITTERS but the frying process is a drag.
Bee Wilson is an English food writer and author of the column Table Talk. Her cookbook THE SECRET OF COOKING is genuinely wonderful and from it Si…
Fudgy, luxe (Cost of Living) carrots
Once you let the sugars in a humble, rudimentary vegetable like the CARROT caramelise, they can really strut their main character energy in a dish like today's.
1 x 2kg bag of carrots, cut on the angl…
WARNING: Mother's Day LOOMS + sweet potato chips
A friendly reminder that in Australia, Mother's Day is REALLY SOON, ie., May 12. So don't be caught snoozing!
And since we're talking about nailing food that Mum actually likes... is it time to all co…
Need Protein? What about a Curried Egg Sandwich?
Body maintenance is all about getting enough protein! Boring, but also - real.
So how, in our busy lives, do we go about getting enough?
Simon and Yumi get excited over boiling a couple of eggs as you …
Tomato and olive rice
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES]
We’ve talked no-stir risottos before, but there’s a whole FAMILY of oven-baked rice dishes out there that do a great job of unchaining you from the stove and putting you back i…
REHEATED - TZATZIKI 🥒
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Simon *loves* a yoggurty sauce. So much so that he's turned me onto it and the humble Greek Yoggurt As Sauce has PERMANENTLY found a place in the Stynes household. So let's tal…
Slow cooked sausage pasta sauce
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"Incredibly easy" is Simon's promise here, but it also has the word "slow" in it, so this isn't the pasta sauce you make when in a rush. One thing I like about talking food wi…
Witlof and anchovy salad
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I hope you're a regular here because there are some in-jokes that might be baffling if this is your first time tuning in.
One in-joke is that Simon LOVES, ADORES and tends to U…
Killer corn salad
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES]
It's always a fun episode when Yumi gets indignant about something stupid she's seen in a restaurant. This is one of those episodes. Your food lovin hosts will also get enthus…
An internet way to do fried eggs
CONFESSION: I had brought something into the studio today to show Simon and Alyssa (our glorious producer). It was a food I'd cooked that had FAILED. And I'd been in a rush to get to the recording se…
FEAST-SIZED Chicken with olive and lemon Tagine (that doesn't need a Tagine)!
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Today, Simon talks me through a recipe that is a Moroccan tagine dish big enough to serve a whole celebration of your friends, and it does NOT require a tagine. (If you don't …
Yumi's Mum's miso soup HACK
Miso soup is so common as a takeaway food, but for a lot of people cooking it at home can feel tricky. It's not! (Here's another 5 Min Food Fix motto: "If Japanese housewives can do it, so can I!")
To…
SIMON'S SHAME FOOD: Tinned Tuna Pasta
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If your partner thinks tinned tuna is "cat food" and makes a 🤮face at the smell, then tuna may *also* be YOUR shame food.
But Simon and I are in agreement that tinned tuna is a…
SIDE DISH LIFE: FRENCH GREEN BEANS
[RECIPE IN SHOW NOTES]
Inspired by an old Jamie Oliver cookbook, this recipe gives permission to cook the hell out of the beans!
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