Menu of the week: recipe ideas from Monday 18 to Sunday 24 December

This week, to celebrate the long-awaited holiday season, let’s enjoy winter dishes. So, let’s get ready to pull out all the stops, since Sunday is the big day: Christmas Eve. At the dawn of this meal, let’s lighten the plate a little while enjoying ourselves. Creamy soups and fruity desserts will keep you waiting until Sunday, when scallop carpaccio, filet mignon with caramelized pears and rose, cardamom and lychee log will be there.

What menu for the week?

Monday

Carrot pancakes
Potatoes, parmesan sauce
Marbled creams with pear, honey and cocoa

Tuesday

Cauliflower and apple salad
Goan-style prawn curry
Pecan and spice cake

Wednesday

Butternut cream soup with coconut milk
Tarte tatin with shallots and Provence herbs
Clementine French toast

THURSDAY

Garlic and tomato butter beans
Beetroot gnocchi, hazelnuts, feta
Chocolate Pear Crumble

Friday

Potato cream with spices and crispy chives
Baked Lemon Chicken
Pear and chestnut cream tiramisu

SATURDAY

Shrimp with seaweed butter and combawa
Pasta, pumpkin sauce, sage, hazelnuts
Poached quinces with jurançon and spices, cardamom whipped cream

Sunday

Scallop carpaccio with passion fruit and lime
Filet mignon with caramelized pears, honey, spices and hazelnuts
Rose, cardamom and lychee log

Your shopping list for the week

Before preparing for the week, we check that we have olive oil, eggs, flour, butter, sugar, salt and pepper left.

First stop at the stall vegetables, where you buy some carrots, potatoes, cauliflower, lemon and kaffir lime, butternut squash, ginger, butter beans, beetroot and pumpkin. We obtain the essential cloves of garlic, onion and shallots and we buy some fruits : pears, blackberries, apples, clementines, quince, passion fruit and lychees.

We anticipate a good number ofaromatic herbs, to flavor our most beautiful winter recipes. You will need chervil, chives, parsley, spring onions, mint, Provence herbs, thyme, bay leaves and oregano. Side spices : Espelette pepper, turmeric, ground cinnamon, smoked paprika, star anise and cloves will be necessary.

At grocery department, we buy chickpea flour, garlic and ginger paste, soy sauce, cider vinegar and balsamic. We don’t leave the grocery store anytime soon, and we also buy: vegetable broth, veal stock, whole canned tomatoes, shortcrust or puff pastry, liquid vegetable cream, coconut milk, cardamom pods, nori sheets (in specialty grocery store), lychee juice, rose water, cornstarch and baking soda.

For desserts of the week, we turn to the pastry department to take acacia honey, white almond puree, bitter cocoa, crushed pecans, vanilla extract, coconut shavings, hazelnuts, 80% dark chocolate, raisins, chestnut cream, coffee and leaves gelatin.

At dairy products departmentliquid cream, milk, feta, Greek yogurt, mascarpone, Philadelphia and grated parmesan will be required.

At the butcherwe buy a few slices of smoked brisket and pancetta, chicken thighs and filet mignon.

Opposite, at fish departmentwe take raw shrimp and scallops.

Short stop at the bakery to take wholemeal sandwich bread with seeds and gingerbread.

Before returning home, you will have to make a detour to the wine merchantto buy a little Sherry and Jurançon.

Good week !