PARIS FOOD GUIDE
Your local Parisian Tea Room Guide
Latest Easy French Recipes
Welcome to Mad about Macarons, the Paris-based food blog that helps you cook and eat like the French with easy recipes from France.
Choose your menu from everyday healthy family dinners to easy French desserts reduced in sugar. They're all packed with flavour to share and enjoy around the table.
- Sautéed Green Beans with Garlic20 Minutes
- Gluten Free Brownies45 Minutes
- Moist Banana Nut Bread1 Hours
- French Almond Cake (Le Saint-Germain)1 Hours
- Pâte Sucrée - Sweet Pastry for Tarts2 Hours
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies27 Minutes
- Pistachio Ice Cream (with or without Wasabi)2 Hours 30 Minutes
- French Niçoise Salad (Salade Niçoise)30 Minutes
What's Popular
- French's Favourite Veal Stew (Blanquette de Veau)2 Hours 25 Minutes
- Stuffed Mini Pumpkins (Jack Be Little Farcies)30 Minutes
- French Crème Caramel (flan aux oeufs au caramel)1 Hours 5 Minutes
- Best French Toast Recipe (Pain Perdu)20 Minutes
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.
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.
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.
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!
