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 And to contact the show: foodfixemail@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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SIMON'S BACK!
Yumi is veering wildly off her personal brand and getting deeply engaged with the Men's World Cup football (!) - and wants to talk with Simon about World Cup foods, catering when watching from home and just how food can get us into the spirit of a truly global sport. The restaurant they're raving about in Sydney? It has a strong instagram game.
Simon is pretty excited because even though coastal Vic is in its mo...
Yumi and Jen unpack some of the latest "trends" in butchering and abusing innocent dumplings.
If you want to order Jen's favourites?
Here's the Chinese words 潮州粉粿
Or at yum cha, you could ask for a "Chiu Chow Fun Gor"
More info here.
Thanks for listening and to see Jen live, check out her webpage for the most current info.
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Yumi is excited about the events she's going to be part of that includes a one-on-one chat with Adelaide food legend and the woman behind 'Pawana' restaurant, Durkhanai Ayubi.
In preparation, she cooked one of the truly delicious (but achievable!) recipes from the revered book, also called 'Pawana'.
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Yumi and Jen laugh uncontrollably as they try to convince each other of the veracity of adding various foods to a pot pie.
Lasagna?
Possibly.
In a pot pie?
Let's discuss.
To find the SBS recipe in question, try here.
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One of Yumi's friends went away with a group of friends for the weekend and what transpired in the kitchen and food planning has been cause for a pause for thought (and significant irritation).
What happens in your group of friends?
Any thoughts or feedback always welcome at foodfixemail@gmail.com
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Yumi and Jen are EXHAUSTED. Yumi is recording in her pyjamas (but only if you can see from the waist down), and decides to go rogue on today's episode.
Inspired by Tik Tok and Instagram account I Am Unique Daily, and wondering out loud whether Resting Bitch Face is a superpower or just ...unfortunate?
For events where you can see Jen live in person, go here.
To listen to Yumi when she's on Double J playing her fave tunes and being...
Fresh off their success at the Sydney Writers Festival, Yumi and Jen get the lols remembering the utter nonsense that was My Day on a Plate. There's a similar column which Jen recommends called The Grub Street Diet, and Yumi likes a hilarious podcast that debunks bad diet advice.
If you want to see Jen live and doing what she does best? She'll be at VIVID SYDNEY in a couple of week.
Yumi Stynes and Jennifer Wong make each other laugh and Yumi recounts a story of going grocery shopping with Jen and being feeling like she was with a mega-celebrity.
Jen also talks about her experience eating the Chinese vegetable Kang Kong, also known as Water Spinach - and how to make it really delicious with fermented tofu!
Catch Jennifer Wong live at one of her upcoming dates - including a special FOOD-RELATED lol-fest i...
Yumi Stynes and Jennifer Wong dig into ideas around the trouble with ethnic food shame as your origin story.
They also have a little yap about Onigiri and why it may be the GOAT of convenience store snacks.
Yumi and Jen can be seen ONSTAGE TOGETHER at the Sydney Writers Festival this week! (Week of 18 May 2026)
More info and for ALL of Jennifer's events, have a look here.
In today's episode, Yumi and Jen dig deep into where San Choi Bao gets it SO RIGHT as a weeknight dinner that everyone can make out of whatever they have in the fridge.
Jen also has an amazing revelation to share about just why RESTAURANT san choi bao is so delicious and crunchy - and it's a hack you can easily replicate at home.
FIND OUT where you can see Jennifer Wong live via this link...
"You've met me at a very Chinese time in my life..."
Americans are "China Maxxing" - discovering food, Chinese medicine, and other cultural habits that are life changing! Yumi and Jen unpack.
AND - if you want to see Jen live?
Check out this link for dates - especially check out a free show all about food here on May 23, her show as part of VIVID SYDNEY on June 5, 2026, and Yumi and Jennifer will be onstage together for Sydne...
Yumi and guest-host Jennifer Wong share their anxieties about what useful skills they'd have in a post-apocalyptic wasteland...
...And Yumi comes through with a really good Yoghurt Flatbread - which is good for right now - tonight even? But may also come in handy if we run out of bread but can still use a frypan.
A very good recipe here, and here, and this is the one Yumi uses which is 3/4 cup Greek yoghurt + 1 cup SR flour....
Yumi gets Jennifer Wong to explain how every regional Chinese restaurant in Australia ...somehow, mysteriously, shares the same menu?
You can find out more about how Jen knows so much about the Chinese restaurants of regional Australia by checking out her book Chopsticks or Fork? - available everywhere. She also has a bunch of shows on in coming months, including Sydney Writers Festival (Yumi also doing a bunch of events), and V...
Jennifer Wong joins Yumi again to talk about DIP - and whether supermarket dip is any good!
EDAMAME GUAC
400g good quality, ripe avocado
150g shelled edamame, boiled gently for 3 mins, drained well
1 bunch coriander, washed well of dirt, then dried in a clean tea towel
spring onions or chives, half bunch
1/2tsp salt, or more to taste
juice of 1 or 2 limes
BLEND EVERYTHING - then taste for seasoning. OPTIONAL - add fresh chopped re...
Special guest host Jennifer Wong is going to be onstage with Yumi at this year's Sydney Writers Festival's GREAT DEBATE. It's always an absolute hoot and you can find out more here...
But the two foodie loving ladies get to hang out on today's episode and talk about their mothers, Mum cooking tips, and an incredible slice that Yumi has since made several times from Aussie food teacher and author, Belinda Jeffery. Belinda very ge...
Throwing together a Poké Bowl or Donburi (or "Buddha Bowl" if we must) is a fantastic exercise in customising a dish to suit both individual taste and making use of what's sitting in your fridge!
Having some stand-by ingredients like seaweed salad, a sprinkling of furikake, crunchy fried onions, and the classic Kim-Chi - will set you up to succeed with a bowl that is really tasty but also healthy and colourful. FANTASTIC!
Yum...
Simon's half-arsed sell on this dish is hilarious and worth the price of admission - but the meal itself is a keeper.
It's his riff on a Nigella recipe: SIMON'S REAL LIFE CHICKEN
Find a wide fry pan with a good-fitting lid, then get
8 chicken thighs, skin on
and you fry them in 2-3tbs garlic oil with zest of a lemon added in, skin-side down, until browned.
Set the chicken aside... and then to the still sizzling pan, add in 500g...
FEEDING KIDS can be one of the most thankless elements of parenting.
They don't like your stuff!
The want the same thing over and over again!
So annoying!
Yumi faces this down on repeat but is excited to get to this extremely fancy - but extremely achievable recipe from this book by Neil Perry. YEP, IN THIS ECONOMY.
Neil Perry's TUNA CRUDO with FINGERLIME DRESSING
INGREDIENTS
400g Sashimi-grade albacore tuna fillet, bloodlines removed
...YUMI has 3 questions for Simon:
- Is Ranch Dressing trash?
- Are we meant to "season" our lettuce when making salad?
- Does it really matter if your lemon is waxed or unwaxed?
PLUS: we go deep into fandom for Anna Jones's WEDGE SALAD WITH RANCH DRESSING recipe from her amazing and highly recommended book Easy Wins.
ANNA JONES'S WEDGE SALAD WITH TAHINI RANCH DRESSING:
CRUMB
Smash 1 clove of garlic and put it in a frying pan w...
The change in weather has made Simon crave flavours of home... He is particularly inspired by a memoir by food writer Nigel Slater.
It's a nostalgic one as it gets cold, the palate craves comfort. Not unlike Yumi's foster dog, who craves ATTENTION and tries to get it during the recording of today's episode! LOL.
Blind bake some pre-bought shortcrust pastry that you've rolled out in a 23cm tart tin until golden.
All...
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