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.
Episodes
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 p...
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...
Yumi had a delightful dinner party experience over the weekend and urgently needs to talk about it!
And as a consequence, urgently needs to talk about this way to do potatoes with capers!
It's from a book called EASY WINS by Anna Jones which Simon has recommended many times over...
ANNA JONES'S BROWN BUTTER POTATOES WITH LIME TARTARE SAUCE
Add 1kg small potatoes to a large pot of boiling, salted water.
Bring it back to the b...
It's HOT CROSS BUNS SEASON and everyone has an opinion on What To Do (and what NOT to do) with this most raisiny of buns.
What are your thoughts on Simon's advice?
Send us an email FoodFixEmail@gmail.com
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Simon is BACK! And what a welcome return.
Yumi and Simon discuss what it was like to have comedian Jennifer Wong onboard as guest host, and Yumi has some tips about what to order - and what NOT to order - when going out for Yum Cha.
And if you want to make Gai Lan (Chinese Broccoli) at home? Here's Nagi's recipe. And to do it at home?
1 Bunch of Gai Lan. If you can't get this vegetable, try it with broccolini, it's very g...
Special Guest Host Jennifer Wong shares a couple of great ways to make instant ramen LESS GRIM.
And if you love Jen and want to see her in person, a good link to upcoming shows is here.
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Both Jennifer Wong and Yumi have had experience with going viral on social media - which they've decided is low-key pointless - but it doesn't mean they're not both dead keen on trying a great hack when other food influencers recommend one...
It might be as simple as using a fish weight when frying a good quality piece of fish...
Or it could be this little hack as tested by Nat's What I Reckon in this video which, at time of publishi...
What is the dumbest gadget you ever bought?
(you can email if you like: foodfixemail@gmail.com )
Yumi and guest-host Jennifer Wong share their thoughts
PLUS - Yumi has a gadget to help your fish fillets turn out AMAZING - that you probably can use tonight at home!
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