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...
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Pistachio Encrusted Chicken
Utterly thrilled with his work perk of a whole ton of beautiful, fresh pistachio nuts, Simon has gone nuts experimenting with this ingredient.
H...
Zenzai Adzuki Beans
Yumi is going back to her mother's country with this particular culinary love affair.
Zenzai is the name for Adzuki Beans when they're cooked an...
Yumi's Showstopping Spinach, Ricotta and Sweet Potato Pie
Borrowing heavily from Maggie Beer's famous recipe for SOUR CREAM PASTRY, Yumi gets super-inspired in the kitchen and devises a PIE RECIPE for the age...
One-man Tuna Rice Bowl
It's not brain surgery or rocket science, but heating up some leftover rice *can* be a sexy meal ticket. *cough*
Simon gets inspired with a meal...
Lemon Salsa Verde!
Simon is STOKED with the new season's lemons.
For this stunning (and achievable) spoon-on-everything sauce:
CHOP ONE LEMON very well, flic...
Potato Pie - Second Try!
Yumi can't let go of trying to perfect a recipe from The Regional Italian Cookbook. Even though it demands we use a cheese that is impossible to find...
Sheet-pan Cake for Beach Parties!
Yumi gets excited to be tasked with the responsibility of cooking a cake big enough to feed a crowd, that is stable enough to take to the beach.
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Simon's Super Coffee Rub
Unfortunately I missed the opportunity to interrogate Simon on him putting a shot of coffee into his BOLOGNESE - please feel free to email your horror...
Number 1 Cookbook in Australia
One of Simon's cookbooks has gone to #1 in Australia for the past fortnight.
It's called The Weekly Grocery Shop and you can buy it here.
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Simon's WINNING Chicken Soup
Simon's amazingly healthful and generous Chicken Soup *IS* pretty winning. He tries to massage my competitive gland by telling me Kate Brown (from my...
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?
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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 pronou...
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...
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 amoun...
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 cash...
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...
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 l...
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 ans...
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 t...
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...
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-ple...
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 f...
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, slo...
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...
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-...
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?
Y...
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...
'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...
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 c...
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 neve...
The Air Fryer Diaries - Part 3 - aka The Pros and Cons of a Coffee Machine
On this Final Instalment of Simon Davis's shameful Air-Fryer Diaries, you'll discover what's still sitting in the hallway of Simon's house, in its box...
The Air Fryer Diaries - Part 2
Simon is sheepishly confessing to two cooking FAILURES - and one win.
What on earth are they?
And what delicious food can we possibly eat...
The Air Fryer Diaries - Part 1
Both your hosts Yumi and Simon have so far resisted the allure/hype of the AIR FRYER.
Neither has one - til now!
But why have they resiste...
CARAMELIZED ONIONS - The myths and lies!
Finely slice your onion, pre-heat your fry pan then add 3 tbs good olive oil.
Gently sautee your onions for ...wait.
TWENTY MINUTES??
BEST (turning 40) VANILLA CAKE
On this episode, Yumi floats her theory about why 40th birthdays are often a big, fat non-event.
Then we go all-in on Yumi's son's newest favour...
NOT-SO AWFUL OFFAL !
2025 might be the year that we begin to RE-appreciate the offcuts that used to populate the supermarket meat section back in our parents' day...
Fish in Crazy Water!
Sometimes a terrific NAME can get you racing to the kitchen to attack a recipe.
Who doesn't love 'Crunchy Fish', for instance?
And what a...
Fennel and Snow Pea Salad
Your hosts go ALL IN for that great winter vegetable, FENNEL, which has the annoying habit of refusing to go off while taking up space in your fridge!...
Beautiful Baked Meatballs
Inspired by the chef Michael Moore who wrote a great book full of delicious and healthy recipes called BLOOD SUGAR - and also inspired by the need to...
PERSIMMON Season MUST be embraced!
On your favourite food podcast, Yumi Stynes explains how food, in this case persimmons, connects her to her mother's culture.
Persimmons are, li...