Picnics •
Tuile Cookies (Tuiles aux Sesame)
Easy Everyday French Recipes
It’s Spring in Paris with asparagus, strawberries, rhubarb, fresh herbs so enjoy them in the following seasonal recipes and take a trip to our local French market.
What’s cooking? Choose from the recipe index page – filter by season, ingredient, meal, diet (over 100 are gluten free), by number of egg yolks, or make our easy, everyday classic French dishes.
Light Lunches •
Nettle Pesto (Pesto d'Orties)
Breakfast •
Rhubarb Compote - With Hibiscus Tea
Desserts •
Mini Strawberry & Rhubarb Crunchy Oat Crumbles
Light Lunches •
Asparagus Puff Pastry Tart
Light Lunches •
Corsican Charcuterie Plate (Salade Terre et Mer)
Mains - Fish & Seafood •
French Monkfish Stew (Lotte à L'Américaine/L'Armoricaine)
Mains - Fish & Seafood •
Creamy Chorizo Risotto with Seared Scallops (or Prawns)
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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.
Macaron Talk
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.
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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. Also discover many popular Parisian pâtisseries and chocolate shops – and what makes each of them so famous.
Watch the recipes
Some of your most popular recipes are now on video! From Lotte à l’Armoricaine, Palets Bretons to a Corsican mint omelette (copied from her Corsican mother-in-law) it’s where Jill plays flute as she makes easy dishes in her kitchen near Paris.
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