Make-ahead Mother's Day menu

This shopping list includes the following recipes:

• Light meals & snacks: Butternut squash soup with parsley purée
• Main course: Salmon with green butter
• Side dishes: Potato salad
• Desserts: Rhubarb fool with lemongrass

Shopping list

• Fruit and vegetables

  • 1.8kg/4lb wedges of butternut squash
  • 6 cloves garlic, 4 whole, unpeeled and 2 finely chopped
  • 2 sprigs of thyme
  • 2 onions, finely chopped
  • 2 carrots, finely sliced
  • 2 sticks celery, finely sliced
  • 1 tbsp freshly chopped sage
  • 1 bunch flatleaf parsley, roughly chopped
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • Lemon juice, to taste
  • small handful fresh parsley
  • small handful fresh chives
  • large handful fresh sorrel leaves (if you can't get sorrel you can use extra parsley and chives or tarragon or basil and add a squeeze or two of lemon juice)
  • lemon wedges
  • a few sprigs of parsley and lengths of chive
  • 1 tbsp tarragon or cider vinegar
  • 900g/2lb new potatoes, such as Jersey Royals or Charlotte, washed or scrubbed
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh tarragon leaves
  • 1 large shallot, finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp chopped cornichons or gherkins (optional)
  • 700g/1½lb rhubarb
  • 2 lemongrass stalks very finely chopped to almost a powder
  • 1 lemon, juice only

• Tins, packets and jars

  • 2 tsp Dijon mustard

• Cooking ingredients

  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 litres/3½ pints hot vegetable stock
  • 100ml/3½fl oz extra virgin olive oil
  • a drizzle of olive oil
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 tbsp walnut pieces (optional)
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp walnut oil
  • 1 tsp honey
  • flaked sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 140g/5oz unrefined organic sugar
  • 110g/4oz icing sugar

• Biscuits, snacks and sweets

  • 4 tbsp white chocolate, grated or peeled into shavings

• Drinks

  • 1 small glass sweet wine, optional

• Dairy, eggs and chilled

  • 30g/1oz parmesan, finely grated
  • 225g/7oz unsalted butter, softened
  • 150ml/¼ pint crème fraîche (preferably organic) or 1 small carton
  • 150ml/¼ pint mascarpone cream

• Meat, fish and poultry

  • 4 portions salmon fillet, skin-on, about 170g/6oz each

• Other

  • 100ml/3½fl oz water

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