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    PARIS FOOD GUIDE

    Your local Parisian Tea Room Guide

    Best Tea Rooms In Paris

    Easy French Recipes

    Welcome to Mad about Macarons, the Paris-based food blog that helps you cook and eat like the French.

    Happy International Cake Day! Enjoy the latest easy cake and pastry recipes, mainly from France - some with a Scottish accent. For everyday menus, see the recipe index.

    • slices of chocolate marble cake for teatime
      Chocolate Marble Cake with Banana
      Cook Time1 Hours 5 Minutes
    • large choux bun filled with smoked salmon and runny cream with apple and dill
      Savoury Choux Buns with Smoked Salmon (Choux au Saumon fumé)
      Cook Time50 Minutes
    • plate of fluted cannelé cakes dusted with gold on a Christmas plate next to a robin candle
      Canelé Recipe (Cannelés de Bordeaux)
      Cook Time1 Hours 20 Minutes
    • plate of oval financier cakes
      Financier Cakes (Financiers)
      Cook Time40 Minutes
    • slice of glossy dark gingerbread topped with candied ginger
      Pain d'épices (French Gingerbread)
      Cook Time1 Hours 10 Minutes
    • apple compote sandwiched with oat crumble as a cake
      French Apple Crumble Cake
      Cook Time1 Hours
    • high rise cheesy scones piled on top of each other, surrounded by rosemary and spring onions
      Fluffy Cheese Scones
      Cook Time40 Minutes
    • Lemon tart with slice cut out of it and topped with finely grated lemon and lime zest
      French Lemon Tart (Tarte au citron)
      Cook Time1 Hours 30 Minutes
    More Cakes & Pastries

    What's Popular

    • bright orange mini pumpkins baked and stuffed
      Stuffed Mini Pumpkins (Jack Be Little Farcies)
      Cook Time30 Minutes
    • pot of bubbling stew with carrots and mushrooms
      French's Favourite Veal Stew (Blanquette de Veau)
      Cook Time2 Hours 25 Minutes
    • pears sitting in an almond tart
      Pear Almond Tart (Tarte Bourdaloue)
      Cook Time1 Hours
    • plate of oval financier cakes
      Financier Cakes (Financiers)
      Cook Time40 Minutes
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    BONJOUR & WELCOME

    Meet Jill

    Jill Colonna’s Paris based food blog inspires a healthy French lifestyle via easy recipes and local food guides. Both Scottish and French, cooking in Paris since 1992, share her 30 years' experience of enjoying simply good food. Using quality fresh ingredients, she shows that French cuisine can be healthy. It’s not all butter and cream!

    Initially created in 2010 on the release of her 1st bestselling book, Mad About Macarons which inspired many now professional bakers to make macarons, this blog focuses on living the real food life in France.
    Join her mission to avoid processed foods, to take pleasure and eat like the French by making meals from scratch, full of flavour.

    More about Jill
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    At the French Market

    Choose from seasonal fruit and vegetables from the French market guide for our daily cuisine du marché. Discover fun facts, recipes and even some popular French expressions using them.

    Market Guide
    • red, golden and green apples in a French shop
      Apples (Pommes)
    • bunch of orange and mixed coloured carrots at the market
      Carrots (Carottes)
    • crate of green beans with a French flag at the farmers' market
      Green Beans (Haricots Verts)
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    French Food Guides

    Planning a trip to Paris? Eat like the French with Jill’s local food guides.

    Check out your ultimate guide to Paris’s best tea rooms (by area) near your favourite museums or landmarks.

    A selection of popular patisseries and chocolate shops – plus where to find the best macarons in Paris. Discover the popular French sweet shops and what makes them so famous.

    French Food Guides

    Watch the recipes

    Some of your favourite recipes are also on video. From monkfish stew, French butter cookies to my Corsican Mother-in-law’s mint omelette, make the same healthy and easy recipes from my kitchen near Paris. Served with a Scottish accent and my flute!

    All recipe videos
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    Bonjour !

    Meet Jill Colonna

    Both Scottish and French, Jill is author of patisserie books and French food blog, Mad About Macarons since 2010. Join her 30 years' full-time experience of living the healthy food life in Paris - via easy recipes and local food guides in France.

    More about Jill
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    BESTSELLER

    How to Make French Macarons

    Jill takes the fear out of making macarons. With all the tips and step-by-step instructions in her bestselling recipe book, Mad About Macarons, it has inspired many now-professional macaron bakers since 2010.

    Gift the book

    What's Popular

    • bright orange mini pumpkins baked and stuffed
      Stuffed Mini Pumpkins (Jack Be Little Farcies)
    • pot of bubbling stew with carrots and mushrooms
      French's Favourite Veal Stew (Blanquette de Veau)
    • plate of oval financier cakes
      Financier Cakes (Financiers)
    • pears sitting in an almond tart
      Pear Almond Tart (Tarte Bourdaloue)
    slice cut to show inside of a moist gingerbread loaf

    SEASONAL

    Holiday Recipes

    Prepare your holiday recipes for Christmas and New Year without the stress. Enjoy our best comfort foods from France - and a few with a Scottish accent!

    Holiday recipes
    watercress at the French market

    In Season

    Watercress (cresson)

    A guide to French watercress, how it's harvested in France plus healthy recipes.

    Watercress

    Latest recipes

    • bowl of rocket soup with smoked garlic
      Smoked Garlic Soup with Rocket (Arugula)
    • soft scalloped potatoes in a gratin dish topped with crispy cheese
      Potato Gratin Savoyard (Without Cream)
    • lush pudding in a pool of dark toffee sauce
      Sticky Toffee Pudding with Apple
    • galette des rois golden, glossy puff pastry round with criss-cross pattern
      Galette des Rois (French King Cake)
    pink cover of patisserie recipe book Teatime in Paris by Jill Colonna

    EASY FRENCH PASTRIES

    Teatime in Paris

    The perfect gift for budding bakers and Paris loving Francophiles. Easy recipes and tips for your own éclairs, tarts, mille feuilles and more macarons!

    Gift the book
    old timbered house shopfront in Dijon

    FOOD TRAVEL

    Dijon

    This town in Bourgogne has much more than its famous French mustard! Home of gingerbread, the birthplace of the Kir Royal and more.

    Taste of Dijon
    shiny little macaron cookies in a Paris store

    LOCAL GUIDES

    Best Macarons in Paris

    As a local for 30 years with 2 macaron recipe books, I’ve tasted a LOT to give you the perfect guide!

    Top 20 Macarons

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