
Mad About Macarons - How to Eat Like the French: a French food blog in Paris of healthy recipes, Paris tearoom and patisserie local guides, lifestyle and gourmet French travel.

A quick French raspberry coulis made with fresh or frozen raspberries, lemon juice and very little sugar.

Strawberries Romanoff is a simple French strawberry dessert inspired by Auguste Escoffier.

A quick Rhubarb Fool with ginger and Greek yogurt - a lighter twist on the classic British dessert made with honeyed rhubarb compote and ready in under 30 minutes.

Easy French blueberry tart recipe made with pâte sucrée and a quick and light custard that sets while it bakes in the oven.

Ultimate Guide to Bananas: health benefits, constipation tips, brown banana uses, fruit fly fixes, storage tips plus low sugar banana recipes.

The most delicious carrot salad with raw shredded carrots and black radish, toasted nuts and seeds with fragrant Moroccan flavours of cumin, mint, ginger and orange.

What apples are best for baking/cooking, French expression with apples and a collection of easy, heathy apple recipes with reduced sugar

Healthy German red cabbage recipe, referred to as Flemish style in France.

Most tender French recipe for pork roast in a Dutch oven or lidded enamel pot, cooked with rosemary, potatoes in a cider jus served with buttered apples on the side.

Most tender French recipe for pork roast in a crock pot, cooked with rosemary, potatoes in a cider jus served with buttered apples on the side.

Roast beetroot salad tossed with tart apple, smoked mackerel, toasted nuts and seeds and flavoured together with a spiced orange dressing.

The annual Montmartre Wine Festival celebrates the grape harvest of the Clos Montmartre, with 5 days of events every mid October.

French Pâte sucrée is the best all-round sweet pastry dough for tarts.

Who prefers light desserts to heavy puddings? I do; particularly during the festive holiday season when the odd additional course creeps in to ambitious holiday menus.