I'm Samine Nossrat and I'm Rishikesh Hereway and we're home cooking. This is episode six of our

increasingly inaccurately named four-part mini-series where we help you figure out what to cook with what you've got at home.

Coming up later we're going to be joined by Nadia Hussein.

Woo! host of the new Netflix series Nadia's Time to Eat and the winner of season six of Great British Bake Off.

I'm so excited. Oh, me too, I can't wait.

Before we get to our conversation with Nadia though, Samine, what have you been cooking that's been making you happy?

I don't know how happy it's been making me.

Oh no.

But I've definitely been on a journey with chicken and rice and it started with a bottle of fish sauce.

With chicken? With chicken and rice. Yeah, well I said it's a journey, okay?

Like when I'm trying to figure out how to familiarize myself with new ingredients and a new cuisine

and find inspiration and all that kind of stuff, it's kind of this frustrating thing where you just have

to try and try and try again and know that you're going to fail. So I had to figure out a starting point

that was going to be interesting. So what happened was I ran out of fish sauce because I've been making

congee a lot throughout the stay-at-home times. Yeah.

And that gave me an opportunity to buy new fish sauce which was a chance to buy a brand that a

lot of people have told me over the years to buy. And I just had never gotten around to using up

my original bottle. Yeah. Because they're kind of big. And the brand that everyone, you know,

who knows about fish sauce tells you to buy is called Red Boat. Okay.

I got Red Boat and I have to tell you it's so much more delicious than other brands that I've

ever used. It's a much more full of umami, much more flavorful. And I will probably never buy

another brand of fish sauce. When you went and got the fish sauce, did you know specifically that

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