5 Minute Food Fix Yumi Stynes

YES, we do exist! Not just figments of your fever dream that is 2024!
And we'll be meeting you in person at the Sydney Writers Festival 2024 - Saturday 25 May, 11am with special guest foodies Alex Elliott-Howery (aka "Alex Cornersmith"), and Lucy 'Every Night of the Week' Tweed.
It's 11am so you have time to get to the shops, chuck on the slow cooker, grab a coffee and then come sit with us.
https://www.swf.org.au/program/season-2024/the-dinner-dilemma

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Okay, if you're part of a diasporic community in Australia, there's a strong chance you're all over Plantain as an ingredient! But this incredible, versatile and super delicious ingredient was previously it's not grown locally, was hard-to-find, and expensive. THAT'S ALL CHANGING. (Coming soon to a fancy restaurant near you!)
Plantain is Yumi's prediction for hitting the mainstream here in restaurants, cafes, cooking shows and at home - - so get onto it first!
TO MAKE SIMPLE PLANTAIN CHIPS YOU'LL NEED:
3 yellowish to black plantains
1 flat teaspoon cayenne pepper
generous pinch of salt
4mm sunflower oil for frying
ALSO - We are very excited to be coming to Sydney Writers Festival! Saturday 25th May, 11am at Carriageworks, Simon and I will be joined by Alex from Cornersmith, Lucy 'Every Night of the Week' Tweed and all our usual LoLs and obsessive food chat so please come along!
https://www.swf.org.au/program/season-2024/the-dinner-dilemma

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Don't forget you can come see us with Alex Cornersmith and Lucy 'Every Night of the Week' Tweed at the Sydney Writers Festival on Saturday 25 May, at the extremely farmer's-market-friendly time of 11am! Carriageworks!
On today's episode we're celebrating the rando gadgets you find in hotel kitchens, in this case, the legendary JAFFLE PRESS.
To make The Perfect Baked Bean Jaffle?
plug in the jaffle and get it going
2 slices of sandwich bread (wholemeal or white)
butter the outsides
swipe the insides with a little mustard if you're into that kinda spice
fill the sandwich with a few spoonfuls of drained Wattie's Baked Beans
topped with cracked pepper
generous Havarti cheese
Toast until the cheese is oozing
EAT IMMEDIATELY WHILE ALSO AVOIDING SCALDING THE INSIDE OF YOUR MOUTH



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Simon and Yumi go deep on the humble potato in this episode.
Can washing grotty old potatoes be worth the effort?
What's the difference in supermarket varieties?
NOTES: The word "yogghurt" is not used once in this effort.
WARNING: Curve ball about dishwashers saved til end of episode.
The Dinner Dilemma is going to be a hoot at this year's Sydney Writers Festival! For more info follow this link
https://www.swf.org.au/program/season-2024/the-dinner-dilemma
and to send a couple of photos of the contents of your fridge and pantry?
foodfixemail@gmail.com

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Rhubarb only has a short season, but that just makes it more glorious!
It *does* require sweetening, so how do you measure what's the appropriate amount without killing the delicate, perfumed flavour?
Yumi does have a terrific and doable RHUBARB COMPOTE recipe:
800g trimmed, washed and dried rhubarb, cut into finger-lengths
250 - 300g sugar
1 tsp vanilla (optional)
juice of 4 imperial mandarins
Juice the mandarins and cook down with the sugar until reduced by about half before adding all the rhubarb and stirring continuously for 12 minutes. Store in the fridge for 1 - 2 weeks. Eat on cereal with Greek yoghurt or top with crumble topping!
WE ARE AT SYDNEY WRITERS FESTIVAL 2024! Simon and I (Yumi) will be onstage on Saturday 24 May with Alex Elliot-Howery from Cornersmith and Every. Night. Of. The. Week. cookbook author Lucy Tweed. Come along! And if you want your fridge and pantry to be featured, discussed and "solved", email foodfixemail@gmail.com with photos of their contents!
https://www.swf.org.au/program/season-2024/the-dinner-dilemma

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This episode is a game-changer for the time-poor home cook.
You've got some zucchini, broccoli stems, a few withered cherry tomatoes and an eggplant looking more wizened than Gandalf?
Use them up in this amazing way to reduce waste and have food ready to go for when you need a pasta sauce, a soup base, or something to layer in a lasagna.

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