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    PARIS FOOD GUIDE

    Your local Parisian Tea Room Guide

    Best Tea Rooms In Paris

    What's Popular

    • round crepe pancake perfectly cooked in a pan
      French Pancakes (Crêpes)
      Cook Time40 Minutes
    • plate with eiffel tower and circle of caramel sauce around a shiny creme caramel
      French Crème Caramel (flan aux oeufs au caramel)
      Cook Time1 Hours 5 Minutes
    • golden bar shaped financier cakes
      Financier Cakes (Financiers)
      Cook Time40 Minutes
    • glass dish of chocolate mousse with cherries
      Dark Chocolate Mousse (Mousse au Chocolat)
      Cook Time30 Minutes
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    Easy French Recipes

    Jill, both Scottish and French, makes easy French recipes both do-able and healthy – from everyday famous classic French dishes, to easy desserts.

    Looking for something specific? Check out the Recipe Index.

    • rhubarb cake with almonds
      Rhubarb Cake (Gâteau à la rhubarbe)
      Cook Time55 Minutes
    • 3 bowls of pea soup with fresh peas and pods
      French Pea Soup (Potage Saint-Germain)
      Cook Time35 Minutes
    • dish of layered roasted vegetables in Provence
      Roasted Summer Vegetables (Tian de Légumes)
      Cook Time1 Hours 10 Minutes
    • bowl of bright red rhubarb compote
      Rhubarb Compote (Compote de Rhubarbe)
      Cook Time2 Hours 30 Minutes
    • asparagus spears like sun rays on a tart
      Asparagus Puff Pastry Tart
      Cook Time40 Minutes
    • black pot with bubbling tomato and fish stew topped with chopped parsley
      Monkfish Stew (Lotte à L'Américaine/L'Armoricaine)
      Cook Time1 Hours 5 Minutes
    • asparagus clafoutis with parmesan sauce basil top
      Asparagus Clafoutis with Parmesan Sauce
      Cook Time55 Minutes
    • round pie dish with baked strawberries and almonds in a custard
      Strawberry Clafoutis (Clafoutis aux Fraises)
      Cook Time45 Minutes
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    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, she shares 30 years 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 instead centres on her experience of living the food life in France. Join her mission to avoid processed foods.

    More about Jill
    Jill Colonna at the Pyramide du Louvre in Paris with macarons

    At the French Market

    Choose from the seasonal fruit and vegetables from the market guide for our daily cuisine du marché. Discover fun facts, recipes and some French expressions using them.

    Market Guide
    • stalks of rhubarb in a crate at the market
      Rhubarb (Rhubarbe)
    • crates of green and white asparagus at the market
      Asparagus (Asperges)
    • punnets of strawberries
      Strawberries (Fraises)
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    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 the best 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.

    French Food Guides

    Watch the recipes

    Some of your favourite recipes are now on video! From monkfish stew, Palets Bretons 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!

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    BIENVENUE!

    Meet Jill Colonna

    Jill is both Scottish and French and author of the book and blog, Mad About Macarons since 2010. Here she shares over 30 years of experience of living the healthy food life with her French family in Paris - via easy recipes and local food guides in France.

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    Recent recipes

    • cauliflower soup topped with florets and parsley candlelit
      Cauliflower Cream Soup (Crème Dubarry)
    Palets Bretons French Biscuits

    SEASONAL

    Spring Recipes

    It’s spring in Jill’s French kitchen – get her collection of free recipes to celebrate French printemps…

    Spring recipes
    glass dish of chocolate mousse with cherries

    POPULAR

    French Desserts

    From Crème Caramel (flan), rice pudding, dark chocolate mousse (no cream) to crêpes, clafoutis and tarts – enjoy making our family’s favourite desserts, all with reduced sugar.

    French Desserts

    square brown pancake folded like an envelope with egg yolk in the middle surrounded with a little ham and cheese and side salad

    CLASSIC FRENCH DISHES

    Savoury Pancakes

    We all love the classic French pancakes (crêpes). Let's go savoury with buckwheat galettes with all the typical fillings. Also gluten free, they're just one of our many favourite family classics.

    Classic French Dishes
    pink macaron cookie with ruffled feet

    LOCAL GUIDES

    Best Macarons in Paris

    Looking for top quality Parisian macarons and going mad which ones to choose? I have you covered with my TOP 20 list of the best in Paris.
    As a local for 30 years with 2 macaron recipe books, I’ve tasted a lot to help you!

    Top 20 Macarons
    blue recipe book cover for Mad About Macarons

    BESTSELLER

    Mad About Macarons

    Scared to make the first move to make macarons? Jill shares all the tips and step-by-step instructions in her bestselling recipe book.
    It has inspired many now-professional macaron bakers since 2010!

    Get the book
    pink cover of patisserie recipe book Teatime in Paris by Jill Colonna

    EASY FRENCH PASTRY RECIPES

    Teatime in Paris

    Even more macarons and easy French pastry recipes. Each step-by-step recipe visits many best bakeries for an armchair walk around the City of Light.
    A must for all budding bakers and Paris-loving Francophiles.

    Get the book
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    BIENVENUE

    Newsletter From Paris

    Stay connected with the free monthly newsletter from France.
    With seasonal recipes, tips and more spilling the tea from Paris.

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