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    Home • Recipes • Meals

    Breakfast

    A collection of healthy breakfast recipes: from vegan homemade granolas to biscuits or cookies with dried fruits and oats to savoury gluten free cheese waffles. Find the growing list of recipes below.

    • Rhubarb Cake (Gâteau à la rhubarbe)
    • Best French Toast Recipe (Pain Perdu)
    • Apple Compote (Compote de Pommes)
    • Healthy Banana Oat Muffins (no added sugar)
    • Healthy Flapjacks (Barres de céréales)
    • Pain d'épices (French Gingerbread)
    • Christmas Granola (Granola de Noël)
    • Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies with Hazelnut & Cranberry
    • Cheese Waffles (Gaufres au fromage)
    • Pear Crumble with Oats, Chocolate and Hazelnut
    • Fluffy French Brioche
    • Corsican Fig Jam (Confiture de Figues)
    • Baked Apricots (Abricots Rôtis)
    • Apricot Jam (confiture d'abricot)
    • Spiced Plum Jam (and a Digital Jam Scale Review)
    • Cherry Clafoutis (Clafoutis aux Cerises)
    • Rhubarb Compote (Compote de Rhubarbe)
    • Maple Granola (Granola au sirop d'érable)
    • French Rice Pudding (Riz au lait)
    • French Pancakes (Crêpes)
    • Easy Scotch Pancakes
    • Moist Banana Nut Bread (Cake)
    • Blueberry Lemon Clafoutis
    • French Apple Custard Tart (Tarte Alsacienne aux Pommes)
    • Corsican Mint Omelette (Omelette à la Menthe)
    • Strawberry Clafoutis (Clafoutis aux Fraises)
    • French Semolina Cake (Gâteau de Semoule)
    • Fluffy Cheese Scones
    • Almond Milk Rice Pudding (Vegan)
    • Chocolate Granola Recipe with Coconut (No Added Sugar)
    • Healthy Chocolate Banana Marble Cake
    • Bran Muffins
    • Raspberry Clafoutis with Lemon Verbena
    • Rhubarb Jam - with Rose and Hibiscus
    • Creamy Orange Curd - a perfect topping for French Crêpes!
    • Banana Coffee Cake with Chestnut Flour
    • Pastéis de Nata Portuguese Custard Tarts

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    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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      Rhubarb Cake (Gâteau à la rhubarbe)
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    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!

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    It has inspired many now-professional macaron bakers since 2010!

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    A must for all budding bakers and Paris-loving Francophiles.

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