5 Minute Food Fix

Simon has been booked to be a guest on a cooking show, shooting soon.
So... what to cook?

It can be agony to decide, but Simon's first impulse is to make his famous and delicious FISH FINGER SANDWICH.

The legendary sando is easy AND supremely yummy, so is there a problem?
POSSIBLY! Warning! This episode contains contagious LoLs! Stay til the end!

FISH FINGER SANDWICH - serves 2
Pre-heat the oven to 220C
Spread out 10 fish fingers on a baking tray and cook for 15-20 mins, turning halfway through.
Meanwhile, prepare your cheat's tartare by combining 8-10 chopped cornichons with 130g Greek yoghurt, juice of 1/2 lemon and a pinch of salt.
Lightly toast your humble sliced bread *nothing fancy.
Slather each slice with a generous amount of your tartare.
Top with 4 fish fingers and leave a bonus one to the side.
Add on top - lettuce leaves, cherry tomatoes and quick pickled onions, the recipe for which can be found in Simon and Yumi's cookbook.
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Yumi and Simon ask some age old questions about why some cooks are hectic and they come up with some theories...
A chef who is completely NOT hectic but calm and delightful is Marion Grasby and Yumi has been fun cooking a few recipes from her website, including today's Chicken Lemon and Orzo, that you can whip up in a LEGIT 30 mins.
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There's no convincing Yumi that garlic deserves to be eaten.
HOWEVER, she does have memories of loving garlic bread and that is because it is, in fact, Very Yummy (if you are not a vampire or FODMAP).

Simon's ULTIMATE Garlic Bread:
Pre-heat the oven to 180C.
Get a good-looking baguette and slice it but not all the way to the bottom, leaving the base intact.
100g softened butter and 4-5 garlic cloves grated on the side of a box grater
Wrap the baguette in al foil.
Pop in the oven for 12-15 mins.
Semi-undress the garlic bread from its foil.
Return it to the oven for another 8-9 mins.
Serve IMMEDIATELY. NO LEFTOVERS.

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COME TO YUMI'S 'WELCOME TO FRIENDSHIP' book launch!
Saturday 8 August, 2026. 2pm at Gleebooks in Sydney.

On today's episode, Simon is excited and psyched about a book called 'SMOKE, RICE, WATER' by Kishwar Chowdhury.

From it, he's recommending as a starter dish, the Pumpkin with Nigella Seeds.

METHOD:
Prepare 500g butternut pumpkin by peeling and cutting into cubes
heat 3tbs oil over a medium heat
then add in 1tsp Nigella Seeds until they crackle
add in a diced onion and 2 finely chopped cloves of garlic and cook over that medium heat
Once it's softened and translucent, add in the pumpkin with a teaspoon of ground turmeric and a generous pinch of salt.
Toss and then cover the pan with a lid.
Once it's tender remove the lid, taste and ramp up the heat, adjust the seasoning. Serve with a sprinkling of chopped spring onion. Serve. Delicious as a side, fantastic on rice.

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Why do some recipes fall out of rotation?
And how good is it when they come back, like a beloved friend?

OTTOLENGHI'S PRAWN, ORZO and MARINATED FETTA recipe can be found here.
(Yumi leaves out the garlic and uses a whole 500g bag of frozen prawns, defrosted in a sieve over a bowl overnight in the fridge, and it's perfectly great.)

The whole cookbook SIMPLE by OTTOLENGHI can be found everywhere, including here.

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