Local Paris Guides
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Easy French Recipes
Welcome to Mad about Macarons, the French food blog in Paris with a healthy lifestyle spin. We're not just mad about macarons!
Enjoy many more home-cooked recipes, mainly from France - some with Jill's Scottish accent. From starters/appetizers to easy desserts reduced in sugar, the focus is on flavour using seasonal ingredients.
Here are the latest recipes for Spring:
- Easy Chocolate Coffee Cakes
- Patrick Roger's Layered Chocolate Cake
- White Asparagus Recipe: French Clafoutis with Lemon
- Rhubarb and Custard Cheesecake
- Pan-Fried Mackerel with French Mustard
- Raspberry Clafoutis
- Bran Muffins that are Actually Healthy
- Orange Cheesecake: Easy Baked Recipe that's Fresh and Zesty
Popular Spring Recipes
- Asparagus Puff Pastry Tart
- Pure Vegetable Soup (Soupe de légumes)
- Corsican Cheese Lasagna (A Lazy Cannelloni au Brocciu Recipe)
- Oven-Roasted Asparagus (Asperges rôties)
- French Crème Caramel (flan aux oeufs au caramel)
- French Dark Chocolate Mousse (Mousse au Chocolat)
- Strawberry Clafoutis with Almond Flour
- French Lemon Tart (Tarte au citron)
- Salted Caramel Macarons
- French Butter Cookies (Palets Bretons)
- French Rice Pudding (Riz au lait)
- Carrot Cake Muffins
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, Jill shares 30 years' experience of making simply good food in Paris. Using local seasonal ingredients, she shows that French cuisine is healthy. It’s not all butter and cream!
Initially created in 2010 on the release of her 1st book, Mad About Macarons which inspired many now professional bakers to make them, this blog focuses on living the Food life in France.
Join her mission to avoid ultra-processed foods, take pleasure and eat like the French by making meals at home from scratch, full of flavour.
French Market Guide
Choose from fresh fruits and vegetables in season from the French farmers' market guide by month. Discover fun facts, recipes - even 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.
Choose from a selection of popular patisseries, chocolate shops and where to find many of the best macarons in Paris and more.
Discover the popular French sweet shops, what makes them so famous, plus gourmet day trips out of the City of Light.
Watch the recipes
Some of your favourite recipes are also on video. From onion tarte tatin, French butter cookies to Jill's Corsican Mother-in-law’s mint omelette, make the same healthy and easy recipes from her kitchen near Paris. Served with her Scottish accent and flute!