What’s your “posh” mid week meal?

[Grantery]

By posh I mean it feels elevated and fancy for a random Thursday evening.

Mine is always Gerlic chilli prawns in tomato sauce with crusty bread and salad. Sometimes I make the bread (using bread maker) and sometimes we pick up something from the supermarket bakery.

Or moules mariniere. Served similar to above and done in no time!

Or homemade pesto with spaghetti. Chuck the ingredients in a nutribullet and bobs your uncle.

What about yours?

And by mid week I mean 20-30 mins of cooking :)

“Sausage ragu” is another one of mine. Literally just fry some sausage meat with onion, garlic and chilli. Jar of Passata. And a grating of Parmesan. So easy.

Roasting Tin cookbook scallops and leeks. With frozen scallops it takes no time at all.

I don't really do posh meals in the week. I cook nice food on a Monday that does throughout the week. This week it's Broccoli and Stilton soup, a Christmas ham, potato salad, cauli cheese, roasted parsnips and onions: getting used up throughout the week.

Elevated might be when i do a steak dinner. Sometimes I'll do Sammy seabass (by Joe Wickes), or maybe baked camembert with crusty bread and crudités.

Not quick but elevated is my Monday fish tacos where I bread fish, fry it, make the shells and guacamole and salsa serve with salad and sour cream. Yum!

Taste the difference fish fingers

Pasta with a smoked salmon and prawn sauce

What is gerlic?

wondering if you mean garlic or of it’s something I haven’t heard of.

Mine would be baked potato with Spanish chicken - about as fancy as we get midweek!

I was going to say moules mariniere. I had some for lunch yesterday in fact.

Dh makes a lovely pasta dish with sausage, fennel and ricotta. If he uses a slightly more fancy pasta and mutti tomatoes it feels quite ‘posh’

Seabass pan fried with a caper butter. Hasselback potatoes. Asparagus and broad beans (spring): or broccoli and greens.

Moules mariniere is the DC's standard Saturday lunch - feels a bit different but is actually boil in the bag.
I do chicken breast wrapped in pancetta and stuffed with Stilton as my 'effort' midweek meal. Tasty with a jacket or new potatoes and some green beans.

Out at a bistro if possible!🤣

No, mostly salmon pan fried with a herby butter, soft frisée salad and baguette.

Mousse au chocolat (from supermarket).

That is literally the same meal i was going to say right down to the mutti tomato! It’s absolutely lovely, i first had it in an Italian restaurant and made my own version a week later. Lovely stuff.

Also this if I could get my hands on them!

Tesco Finest ready meals👌since I hate cooking.

Do you mind giving a very basic recipe. Sounds lovely.

Marry me chicken orzo in the slow cooker before I leave for work.

wuick pasta bake (roasting dish with a Boursin, tomatoes, sausages, spinach and a splash of olive oil. Cook for 20 mins, smash together/mash or blend and chop the sausages in then stir in cooked pasta)

i can’t say I love cooking (more the eating that motivates me) but in January making a bit of effort with food in the evening does seem to make me feel a bit perkier. We’ve kept some of Xmas candles and fairy lights up. And it makes me feel quite Nigella-y tbh!

Have made a few pasta dishes with Boursin (is it a TikTok thing? DD suggested it so I can only assume so) and it is heavenly. No effort whatsoever.

Crab, chilli and lemon soufflé with a green salad

Soufflé during the week is an incredible effort!

@BrendaThePoodle May I also trouble you for the recipe? Sounds delicious

I love this response. Did you write that in French to make chocolate mousse sound posh? 😍

Ribeye with a pepper sauce chips and asparagus

Thai prawn and mushroom noodle soup, if I can be bothered ill do the lemongrass etc, if not just chuck some Thai green paste in!

I've just realised that whenever I cook fish mid week it feels "more"

Prawn orzo pasta with feta
Spiced salmon with roasted veggies (sometimes cous cous)
Fried fish fillets with either a curry ish sauce and rice or with mash and sauce vierge

You’re the Liz (Motherland) of Mumsnet. Love it!