5 Minute Food Fix

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! And your kids!

And Simon knows about what the different varieties mean and how much a local cafe can charge for Smashed Avo these days.

JAPANESE ABSORPTION METHOD RICE

You need a relatively small, good quality saucepan with a lid that fi...

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 Simon Baggs. We've known each other for years, I love them both dearly, but more important than that, they're fantastic broadcasters.

Can We Be Real is a weekly show that delivers laughs. If you like it, it's available on all major podcas...

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 if you want to elevate your dinner toast? Listen up.

5 good tomatoes

1 medium tin of tuna in springwater

1/4 cup olive oil

salt and pepper

1/4 - 1/2 tsp dried oregano

fresh basil

4 slices of excellent sourdough

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 beautiful platter that gets one steak in front of the whole family!

Using a dressing of 200ml pomegranate molasses, 75ml balsamic vinegar, 1tbs olive oil and 2tsp Dijon mustard.

Cook the steak (whichever you like, eg., sirloin) hot and fast for ...

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 Simon and I have both drawn huge amounts of inspiration.

400g potatoes, grated

500g zucchini, grated

1 small onion, finely diced

1/2 clove garlic, finely grated

salt, pepper and a soft herb like mint, chopped

3 eggs

75g self-raising flour (glute...

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 angle about 1 inch thick

1 - 1.5 tbs cumin seeds

salt

olive oil

Rub the oil, cumin and salt into your chopped carrots while your oven warms. Roast the carrots at 200C for about 25 mins until fudgy and sweet. Meanwhile whisk the juice of a lemon...

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 collectively admit that filled chocolates ...are trash?

METHOD

Cut your peeled sweet potato into fries.

Soak the potato in cold water for at least half an hour.

Pre-heat the oven to 220C.

Drain off thoroughly on a clean tea towel.

Dust with 1 t...

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 make breakfast, and having them in the bank for the day ahead.

What if you go one better and prepare a curried egg sandwich for Later Today Me?

3-4 boiled eggs

1 - 1.5tsp of Keen's Curry Powder

pinch salt

3 tbs mayonnaise (I use Kewpie)

anyth...

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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 into where you need to be! This one is a sort of riff on all things summer salad, in rice form. Bit weird, but it kind of works. It makes use of short-grain rice here – the squat, stubby, starchier cousin of the rice family that’s great ...

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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 talk about how to make the classic (and delicious) Tzatziki!

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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 with Simon is that he knows the origins of foods and food ideas. This particular recipe came from a game-changing Italian restaurant from England way back and let's be real, this sounds freakin delicious. Get it in your ears now, and mayb...

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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 USE ALL THE TIME, Greek "Yoggurt" as an ingredient, to the point where we started doing a count-o-meter of every time he said the word "yoggurt", (hard 'G' emphasis = deliberate). 

This ep does have actual food chat in it though. Like, do...

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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 enthused about what you can do with some BBQ roasted corn!

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Recipe

1/2 cup toasted nuts

6 X corn cobs, BBQd in their husks for 10 mins until blackened all over, peeled, kernels re...

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 session that I didn't think it through but the gross food fail really triggered poor Simon's gag reflex! The situation was worsened by the fact that he'd had a yeehah driver on his way into work and had spent the wild ride looking down at...

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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 know what a tagine is, don't worry, we explain in the show.) TRIGGER WARNING: You may drool!

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Recipe

Serves 8
juice of 2 lemons  
6 tbsp olive oil  
1½ tsp ground t...

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 make miso soup, you need to buy "white" miso. Tricky detail: in the tub, it doesn't look white, it looks honey-coloured, like a Cliff Richard leather jacket.
To share my Mum's miso soup hack, I absolutely had to study her while ...

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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 an EXCELLENT ingredient. Inspired by Antonio Carluccio, this recipe is completely nothing to be ashamed of!
CONTENT WARNING: Yumi uses the word "swol" in this episode.

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Inspired by an old Jamie Oliver cookbook, this recipe gives permission to cook the hell out of the beans!

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Recipe

500g French beans, woody ends removed and composted
3tsp French mustard
2tbs white wine vinegar
7tbs olive oil
1 tbs chopped capers
lots of freshly ground pepper
salt, to taste
optional: 1/2 clove finely grated ga...

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Not the Enid Blyton type of brownies...! No! Today on the show we're talking those chocolatey, delicious pan baked treats... and Simon - a bona fide food EXPERT - reckons they can be over-complicated. So let's keep it SIMPLE but mystically good.
("What the hell is she talking about?" - - you'll need to listen to understand.)

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Recipe

Line a 20c...