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Easy French Recipes

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:

Recipe Index & Filter
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Breakfast •
Spiced Plum Jam (and a Digital Jam Scale Review)
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French Desserts •
Berry Gratin - A Light Crème Brûlée
mini cup of creamy ice cream with a sprig of lemon verbena leaves
French Desserts •
Lemon Verbena Ice Cream (Glace à la verveine)
roasted sliced tomatoes with mozzarella stacked together
Light Lunches •
Oven Roasted Tomatoes and Mozzarella
golden bar shaped financier cakes
Picnics •
Financier Cakes (Financiers)
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French Desserts •
Dried Rhubarb Chips
slices of toasted baguette French bread topped with grilled cheese and walnuts on a bed of dressed lettuce and bacon bits
Light Lunches •
Warm Goat Cheese Salad (salade de chèvre chaud)
pink glazed cake topped with roasted rhubarb, strawberries and flowers
Teatime •
Strawberry Almond Tart (With Roasted Rhubarb)
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Meet Jill

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.

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Here 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.

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Some of your most popular recipes are now on video! From monkfish stew, chocolate mousse, tuiles 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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