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EAT LIKE THE FRENCH, LIVE LIKE THE FRENCH 🍽️ Free e-Guide

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French Bread and Pastry

Apple Tarte Tatin Recipe image

Apple Tarte Tatin Recipe

Tarte Tropézienne recipe

Tarte Tropézienne Recipe

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Lemon Tart Recipe (Tarte au Citron)

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Paris Brest Recipe (Cream Puff Wreath)

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French Chocolate Mousse Recipe

canelé mold produces perfect cannéles bordelais

Canelés Recipe (Cannelés Bordelais)

Profiteroles Recipe on a plate with warm chocolate sauce

Profiteroles Recipe

french apple tart

French Apple Tart Recipe

croquembouche tower of cream puffs with spun sugar - featured image

Croquembouche Recipe (Profiterole Tower)

French macarons on a gold rim plate with flowers

French Macarons Recipe Step by Step

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Cronut Recipe Made with Puff Pastry

french crepes with whipped cream and strawberries

French Crepe Recipe

Banana Tarte Tatin: caramelized bananas flipped over a bed of golden pastry. Recipe via MonPetitFour.com

Banana Tarte Tatin with Chopped Nuts

Madeleines with Lemon Curd: sweet little French cakes filled with delicious lemon curd. Recipe via MonPetitFour.com

Madeleines with Lemon Curd

Crème anglaise: a French custard often served as a dessert sauce for cakes and pastries. Recipe via MonPetitFour.com

Crème Anglaise Sauce for Desserts

Pastry Cream (Creme Patissiere): a simple and creamy filling for tarts, cakes, and French pastries like eclairs and profiteroles! Recipe via MonPetitFour.com

Pastry Cream (Crème Pâtissière)

Chouquettes: pastry puffs topped with pearl sugar. Recipe via MonPetitFour.com

Chouquettes (Sugar-Topped Pastry Puffs)

Chocolate Pastry Braid: 3-Ingredient Dessert! Gooey chocolate nestled inside puff pastry and topped with sliced almonds. Recipe via MonPetitFour.com

Chocolate Pastry Braid (La tresse au chocolat)

Easy Chocolate Souffle Recipe in ramekins

Easy Chocolate Souffle Recipe

French Butter Cookies, also known as sables. Sweet, salty, and buttery! Easy cookies that are incredibly irresistible. Recipe via MonPetitFour.com

French Butter Cookies (Sable Breton)

Gateau St. Honore with Salted Caramel! A drool-worthy version made at home, and just a bit easier than the traditional! Recipe via MonPetitFour.com

Gateau St. Honore with Salted Caramel

Creme Brulee without a torch! Make vanilla creme brulee with an irresistible sugar topping at home with this recipe! via MonPetitFour.com

Creme Brulee At Home Without A Torch

Opera Cake Made Easy! Create this beautiful and delicious coffee-flavored cake via MonPetitFour.com

Opera Cake (Gâteau Opéra)

Wheat Stalk Bread (Pain d'Epi): An uncomplicated, but totally impressive French bread you can make at home! Recipe via MonPetitFour.com

Wheat Stalk Bread (Pain d’Epi) Made at Home

Chocolate Crepes filled with cream and fresh raspberries, then dusted with powdered sugar. So easy and so delicious! Recipe via MonPetitFour.com

Chocolate Crepes with Raspberries and Cream

Apple Galette: The Easy Way to Make Pie! Recipe via MonPetitFour.com

Apple Galette: How the French do Pie

Oranais aux abricots

Oranais aux abricots (French Apricot Pastry)

chocolate tart with caramel

Chocolate Tart with Caramel

easy chocolate eclair recipe on a plate

Easy Chocolate Eclair Recipe

french baguettes

French Baguettes Made at Home

french beignets

French Beignets (boules de Berlin)

Mille-Feuille Café: coffee-flavored napoleons made with pastry cream and puff pastry. A French dessert recipe via MonPetitFour.com

Mille-Feuille Café

chocolate puff pastry

Chocolate Puff Pastry with Strawberry Cream

cruffins

Cruffins (Croissant Muffins)

apricot glazed palmiers

Apricot Glazed Palmiers

cinnamon orange raisin brioche

Cinnamon Orange Raisin Brioche

homemade croissants

Homemade Croissants: A Lesson in Viennoiserie

brioche a tete recipe

Brioche a Tete Recipe

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French cooking begins with what’s already in the c French cooking begins with what’s already in the cupboard. Dijon mustard, lentils, coarse salt, cornichons, and bouillon — simple staples that make everyday meals more flavorful without complication. Comment PANTRY if you’d like more essential ingredients found in French kitchens (including the fridge!). Follow @monpetitfour for French recipes, traditions, and everyday inspiration.
It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t felt it It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t felt it. Nothing dramatic has to happen. You’re just there. Walking. Sitting. Existing. And something in you softens. Paris doesn’t feel unfamiliar. It feels like a part of you that was waiting. Follow me @monpetitfour if you’re a Francophile who adores all things French and France! 🇫🇷
Spring is the perfect time to revisit the pieces t Spring is the perfect time to revisit the pieces that define your wardrobe. A structured blazer. Cropped jeans. A woven bag and silk scarf. Timeless staples that return year after year, bringing a quiet sense of polish to even the simplest days. French style has always been less about trends and more about building a wardrobe you can rely on season after season. 🇫🇷 Comment SPRING and I’ll send you my post on the classic French girl staples every spring wardrobe should include. Follow @monpetitfour for French style, Paris inspiration, and everyday elegance.
A French café breakfast is simple, consistent, and A French café breakfast is simple, consistent, and quietly satisfying. It’s one of my favorite things to go to a French café for. It’s the same familiar offerings you’ll find across Paris and beyond — hot coffee, something from the boulangerie, and a few thoughtful additions that make the experience feel complete without ever being excessive. It’s less about abundance and more about balance — and it’s surprisingly easy to recreate at home. 🇫🇷 Comment CROISSANT if you’d like the link to my video class where I teach you how to make authentic croissants from scratch. 🥐 Follow @monpetitfour for French recipes, café rituals, and everyday inspiration inspired by life in France.
In France, apéro can be as simple or as elaborate In France, apéro can be as simple or as elaborate as you like. Sometimes it’s just a kir royale, a few olives, saucisson, and radishes with butter in the spring. A quiet pause before dinner. Other times, it becomes an apéro dînatoire — a more abundant spread that replaces the evening meal entirely. Both are part of the ritual. Both are unmistakably French. 🇫🇷 Comment APERO if you’d like my guide to creating a beautiful apéro dînatoire at home. Follow @monpetitfour for French traditions, recipes, and everyday rituals inspired by life in France.
Rushing is a habit most of us didn’t choose. We i Rushing is a habit most of us didn’t choose. We inherited it. But when you step into Paris, something shifts. You start walking slower. You start noticing more. You stop filling every quiet moment. And you realize…maybe “doing nothing” isn’t laziness. Maybe it’s wisdom. I wrote an entire piece on what the French understand about the art of doing nothing. Comment ART and I’ll send it your way.
Polish isn’t about doing more. It’s about refining Polish isn’t about doing more. It’s about refining what’s already there. Timeless hues. One intentional accessory. Effortless hair. Details that feel considered, never overdone. That quiet restraint is what makes it feel so French. 🇫🇷✨ And if you’re curious about how to practice this unhurried, intentional energy via a French girl morning routine, comment MORNING and I’ll send you the article. ☕️ Follow @monpetitfour for French style, Paris inspiration, and everyday elegance.
“Girl dinner,” but make it French. 🇫🇷 Simple ingr “Girl dinner,” but make it French. 🇫🇷 Simple ingredients. No elaborate prep. Bread or crackers, good cheese, something fresh, something salty, and a small sweet to finish. It’s easy. It’s unfussy. And somehow, it still feels chic. This is how the French turn a minimal meal into something intentional…balanced, beautiful, and enjoyed slowly. Follow @monpetitfour for French lifestyle, recipes, and everyday inspiration.
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