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🇫🇷 Your insider’s guide to the real France

🐸 Bringing you traditional French recipes
🧀 French culture & lifestyle inspiration
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Recipe Spotlight: Mushroom Bourguignon

As we’re both pescatarians, we enjoy the famous Boeuf Bourguignon, but without the beef. Meaty mushrooms braised in red wine with pearl onions, carrots, and herbs until everything's rich and deeply savoury.

#mushroombourguignon #vegetarian #frenchfood
January 22, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Signs you're a frog. Or have become one without realising.

How many boxes do you tick? Drop your number in the comments.
(5 or more = you're basically French now. No going back.)

#TellMeWithoutTellingMe #FrenchLife #ilovefrance #frenchculture #frenchielovers #frenchiegram #ilovefrance🇫🇷
January 20, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Recipe Spotlight: Clafoutis with Blueberries

Clafoutis is what happens when the French can't decide if they want cake or custard, so they just make both at once. This recipe comes from our French neighbour Michèle but this is the blueberries version 🫐

#clafoutis #frenchdessert #frenchbaking
January 17, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Recipe Spotlight: Tartiflette

The key is finding proper Reblochon cheese, that's what makes tartiflette taste like tartiflette. Without it, you're basically making cheesy potatoes. With it, you're making the French Alps in a dish.

#frenchfood #reblochon #comfortfood #cheeserecipe #frenchrecipe
January 15, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Recipe Spotlight: Criques Ardéchoises

I make these far too often, but they're just so easy and work with literally everything, fish, vegetables, even just on their own! The French call them criques in the Ardèche region, where they've been making them for centuries.

#potatopancakes #frenchfood
January 10, 2026 at 11:34 AM
French Life: The Baguette

We take baguettes very seriously. A baguette from yesterday should be used for breadcrumbs, be toasted or make “pain perdu” with. The only way to eat a baguette is fresh. Raise your hand if you know what we’re talking about 🙌

#baguette #frenchbread #frenchculture
January 8, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Recipe Spotlight: Turbot with Morel Sauce 🍄🟫

This is what the French pull out when they're trying to impress someone. Morels are a bit mad. They look like tiny sponges and taste like the forest in the best possible way. Foragers in France guard their picking spots like state secrets!

#finedining
January 6, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Recipe Spotlight: Galette des Rois

A tradition I look forward to every year, because it tastes delicious and it's a chance to be queen (or king) for a moment! Even as an adult, I love the anticipation of finding the "fève"... I know, I'm such a child 🫣

#bakingtherapy #kingscake #bakersgonnabake
January 3, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Happy New Year to you all! 🍾🥂

And just to make sure, in the name of luck, love, and prosperity, I'm following French New Year superstitions. Will it work? No idea. But I'll be wearing red and eating lentils just in case 😂

#bonneannee #happynewyear #celebrations #newyearseve #newyearcelebration
December 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Recipe Spotlight: Mini Quiches with Salmon and Courgettes

These are proper crowd-pleasers and they work for everything, apéro with friends, Boxing Day buffet, or just "I want something nice for lunch." What's your go-to mini quiche filling?

#miniquiche #miniquiches #frenchrecipe #appetizer
December 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Recipe Spotlight: Financiers
These little French cakes started as almond cakes made by nuns. Then a pastry chef saw a gap in the market and shaped them like gold bars for the trading stockbrokers! The go-to snack for busy bankers who wanted something elegant, tasty, and mess-free

#frenchcakes
December 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
French Life: French oysters

Did you know Louis XIV had six dozen delivered to Versailles daily to eat before breakfast? And between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day, the French consume half their entire annual oyster supply, 4 kilos per household in less than a fortnight.

#oysters #seafoodlovers
December 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Recipe Spotlight: Crème Brûlée

I genuinely don't remember life without crème brûlée. Privileged French frog, I know 🐸 That smooth vanilla custard with a sheet of caramelised sugar that cracks when you tap it with a spoon... it's one of life's simple pleasures.
#cremebrulee #frenchdessert
December 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Recipe Spotlight: French Mulled Wine 🍷🍊🎄

Red wine, orange, spices and everything nice! I've convinced myself that wine with spices counts as wellness. Anyone else? 🤣

#vinchaud #mulledwine #mulledwine🍷 #christmasmarket #frenchrecipes #FrenchChristmas #WinterDrinks #Christmasdrinks #FrenchFood
December 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Recipe Spotlight: Cheese Fondue Savoyarde

This is the proper Savoyarde version, Comté, Beaufort, Emmental and a splash of white wine, all melted together in a pot you gather around like it's a campfire. You dip bread, you drink wine and you don't move for hours 🤣

#fondue cheesefondue #winterfood
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
French Life: The 13 Christmas Desserts of Provence
In Provence, the 13 desserts are a tad different. Provençal families lay them out on Christmas Eve and leave the table set for three days. Anyone who visits gets offered them.

Would you swap the Viennetta for a bowl of candied fruit this year?
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Recipe Spotlight: Mimosa Eggs 🥚

Stop calling them deviled eggs.. 🤫 We’re elevating the appetizer game to full French chic'ness with Oeufs Mimosa. Named after the tiny, bright yellow flowers that smell like sunshine!

#oeufsmimosa #devilledeggs #frenchfood #apéro #appetizer #appetizers
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Recipe Spotlight: Raclette 🧀

If you've never had raclette, you're missing out on one of France's greatest winter traditions. Melted cheese scraped over potatoes and pickles…as a meal!

#raclette #racletteparty #raclettecheese #cheeselovers #winterdining #raclettelovers #instafood #instafoods
December 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Recipe Spotlight: Chocolate Mousse 🍫

Made this last week and honestly couldn't stop going back for "just one more spoonful." You know how it is, right? Please tell me I’m not alone in this chocolate madness? 😂

➡️ Full recipe on the blog!

#chocolatemousse #frenchdessert #sweettreat #chocolatelover
December 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
French Life: Cheese board 🧀

The cheese board is a whole moment. Shows up between courses at dinner parties, stars at apéros with friends, gets taken very seriously by everyone involved. Want to know how to create your own?

#cheeseboard #cheeseboards #cheeseboardgoals #cheeselovers #cheeselover
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Recipe Spotlight: Profiteroles

The French holy trinity of "I can't believe you made this": Light choux pastry, proper crème pâtissière, dark chocolate sauce. And if you make a tower of these little delights, it’s called a “croquembouche”!

#profiteroles #frenchdessert #chouxpastry #frenchpastry
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Recipe Spotlight: Pot-au-feu de la Mer 🎣

Prawns, flaky fish, and fresh veggies all simmering in a broth. Looking for good fish? @regalfishuk has you covered, delivered to your door! 🎣 🌊 🙌

#potaufeudelamer #frenchrecipe #seafoodstew #fishrecipe #frenchfood #onepotmeal #onepotmeals
November 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This or That: French Pastries 🍰

What did you choose? Defend your picks in the comments 👇
(Bet no one could pick one in round 2 Prove us wrong.)

#frenchpastries #frenchdesserts #frenchfood #frenchbakery #eclair #millefeuille #pâtisserie #patisseriefrancaise #patisserie #pastrylove #pastrylover
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Recipe Spotlight: French Onion Soup 🧅

This soup fixes everything. Having a bad day? Onion soup. Are you coming down with something? Onion soup. Slight hangover from last night's wine? Definitely onion soup. Serve with a ridiculous amount of bubbling cheese on top. Because, well, when in France. 🇫🇷🐸
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Recipe Spotlight: Roasted Chestnuts 🌰

Fancy chestnut pan with holes? Great. Regular oven? Perfect. Barbecue? Even better. Just remember to cut a cross or horizontal slit in each one, or they'll explode like tiny edible grenades in your kitchen.

#roastedchestnuts #frenchfood #autumnrecipe #cozyfood
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM