

What’s in season at our local French market? Tomatoes, raspberries, melon, apricots – plums and figs are now out in Provence, where we are this summer. Why not enjoy a few radishes too with butter and salt for an apéritif with a glass of chilled rosé?
What’s cooking or chilling? Choose from the recipe index page – filter by season, ingredient, meal, diet (over 100 recipes are gluten free), by number of egg yolks, homemade ice creams, or make our favourite French classic dishes. Here are just a few of the latest recipes for summer:
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Jill Colonna’s Paris based food blog, inspiring a healthy French lifestyle via easy recipes and local guides. Living in Paris since 1992, she shares 30 years of French family food training – from her market guide to picking fresh produce to preparing classic dishes at home. Will le blog make you fat? No, just a bit French.
Initially created in 2010 on the release of her first book, Mad About Macarons, this blog instead centres on easy French recipes and Paris food guides.
Looking for the best macarons in Paris? What’s the difference between macarons and macaroons? Get my vegan macaron recipe plus ideas what to serve with sweet AND savoury macarons from the recipe books and more. Macaron News: This spring the Fête du Macaron raised €32 000 by Relais Desserts in aid of Ukraine.
More Macaron TalkHere you’ll find Jill’s local guides to Paris’s best tea rooms by arrondissement near your favourite museums. Also discover many popular Parisian pâtisseries and chocolate shops – and what makes each of them so famous.
Some of your most popular recipes are now on video! From monkfish stew, chocolate mousse, and Palets Bretons to her husband’s Corsican mint omelette, make easy dishes with Jill from her kitchen near Paris. It’s also where she plays flute.
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