A great New Year’s Eve for less than €50
Michelin-starred chef Stéphanie Le Quellec does her best to make his party menus accessible and deliverable throughout France. “It’s not because prices are increasing that we’re going to stop enjoying ourselves during the holidays, and it’s our responsibility to show that you can do it without breaking the bank,” she confides to 20 minutes. His ambition: to please as many people as possible by offering fresh seasonal products, simmered in his kitchen – without ever lowering his quality requirements, but rather by calling on his creativity and his sensitivity as a cook. , to offer three complete menus, from €49 per person, creative and festive, at competitive prices.
In the cheapest box, at 49 euros, we already find something for an excellent meal: delicious parmesan arlettes, a beautiful open ravioli of winter vegetables and its warm butternut velouté flavored with coffee, a soft cushion poultry with mushrooms and apple purée with brown butter, without forgetting logs and logs with Indian vanilla, caramel and pecans by Pierre Chirac, the house’s pastry chef.
Offer available from December 18 to 31. 3 menus at 49, 69 and 89 euros. A la carte options also. Orders: www.mamparis.com.
Dishes from Japanese films included in recipes
Who has never delighted in the images of good food in Japanese films? Certainly not Sachiyo Harada, a food stylist based in France who publishes Japanese cuisine on screen, a beautiful book from Hoëbeke. “Since the recipes are easy to make at home, I wanted to share them. I’m a glutton! “, she explains with a laugh 20 minutes.
Chicken karaage (pronounced kara-a-gué) as in Makanaidorayaki Tokyo Delightsramen from Tampopochirashi sushi The Asada Familysteamed buns as in Spirited away… no more basic Japanese cuisine will hold any secrets for you.
Japanese cuisine on screen by Sachiyo Harada, ed. Hoëbeke, 28.50 euros.
Do you know how to plant cabbages?
For the second year in a row, the Foundation for Nature and Man returns with its #JagisJePlante event. The objective remains unchanged: to invite as many people as possible to take advantage of winter to plant hedgerows, green walls, fruit trees or mini-forests, recalling their role, both for the return of biodiversity.
The site jagisjeplante presents itself as a collaborative information platform on which you can find tutorials and gardening advice for winter but also where you can share photos of your plantings and interact with other activist gardeners.
All information is available on https://jagisjeplante.fnh.org
Fuller lips without surgery
You dream of having the lips of Angelina Jolie or Emily Ratajkowski but, plastic surgery no thanks? We may have found a super safe alternative that is clearly within the budget. The Spanish brand laCabine offers its LipUp Lift ampoule which promises to give volume, fight against aging and sustainably hydrate the lips to avoid the barcode effect caused in particular by the cold.
The effect is quite successful and the oily texture is also super pleasant to apply. If the bulb is intended to be single-use, you can still close it and keep it for 1 to 2 days to benefit from this glow effect.
Lip Up Lift laCabine, 2 ml ampoule, €2.45 in pharmacies, drugstores and perfumeries.
A huge Spa on the outskirts of Paris
Since it opened its doors to the public at the start of the school year, the immense center Calicéo Versailles – Saint-Cyr-l’École (Yvelines) of 5,000m2 is always full. After Lyon, Toulouse, Nantes, Bordeaux, Pau and Perpignan, the brand now offers the largest and most complete balneotherapy and spa offering in the Paris region.
The center has notably set up a space dedicated to the preservation of health capital, with activities that blow hot and cold: infrared sauna and sauna with salt walls, hot-cold leg circuit, ice cave 4°C with snow shower and ice fountain… In the case of saunas, you might think you are in Japan, in that of snow in Finland. Relaxation, well-being and a change of scenery guaranteed.
Information: https://saintcyrlecole.caliceo.com.