PARIS FOOD GUIDE
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Easy French Recipes
Welcome to Mad about Macarons, the Paris-based food blog that helps you cook and eat like the French.
Enjoy the latest easy recipes, mainly from France - some with a Scottish accent.
From everyday French starters/appetizers, healthy family dinners to easy desserts reduced in sugar, all are full of flavour using seasonal ingredients.
- Vanilla Poached Pears - Be Bold with Coffee50 Minutes
- Chocolate Marble Cake with Banana1 Hours 5 Minutes
- Savoury Choux Buns with Smoked Salmon (Choux au Saumon fumé)50 Minutes
- Smoked Garlic Soup with Rocket (Arugula)30 Minutes
- French Lemon Tart (Tarte au citron)1 Hours 30 Minutes
- Potato Gratin Savoyard (Without Cream)1 Hours 5 Minutes
- Sticky Toffee Pudding - Extra Lush with Apple1 Hours 5 Minutes
- Galette des Rois (French King Cake)1 Hours 20 Minutes
What's Popular
- Stuffed Mini Pumpkins (Jack Be Little Farcies)30 Minutes
- French's Favourite Veal Stew (Blanquette de Veau)2 Hours 25 Minutes
- Pear Almond Tart (Tarte Bourdaloue)1 Hours
- 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!
