Breakfast •
Corsican Ricotta Cheesecake (Fiadone)
Easy French Recipes
We’re saying bonjour to the first Autumn mushrooms, apples, walnuts, chestnuts and pumpkins (potimarrons) around Paris. It’s also the grape harvest and wine sales (Foire aux vins) in France.
What’s cooking? Go to the Recipe Index to find your ideal menu, our authentic everyday French food classics, or choose from the latest Autumn recipes:
Breakfast •
Corsican Fig Jam (Confiture de Figues)
French Desserts •
Tarte Tatin Recipe
Breakfast •
French Pancakes (Crêpes)
Mains - Meat •
Honey Glazed Pork Tenderloin
Breakfast •
Easy Scotch Pancakes with Chestnut Flour (Corsican Style)
French Desserts •
French Crème Caramel (flan aux oeufs au caramel)
French Desserts •
Lava Cakes (Moelleux au Chocolat)
Bonjour
Meet Jill
Jill Colonna’s Paris based food blog inspires a healthy French lifestyle via do-able recipes and local guides. Cooking in Paris since 1992, she shares 30 years of making everyday food for her French family – starting with fresh produce at the market.
Initially created in 2010 on the release of her first book, Mad About Macarons, this blog instead centres on easy French recipes and French food guides.
Macaron Talk
Looking for macarons for pink October? What’s the difference between macarons and macaroons? Get my vegan macaron recipe plus ideas what to serve with sweet AND savoury macarons from my recipe books and more.
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Food Guides
Here you’ll find Jill’s local guides to Paris’s best tea rooms (by arrondissement) near your favourite museums or landmarks.
Also discover many popular Parisian pâtisseries and chocolate shops and what makes them so famous. Central to French culture, is the market, so choose your fruit and vegetables and let’s get cooking!
Watch the recipes
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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