French Food Guides
What's in Season this Month?
Easy French Recipes
Welcome to Mad about Macarons, the French food blog in Paris with a healthy spin.
Enjoy easy home-cooked recipes, mainly from France - some with Jill's Scottish accent. From starters/appetizers to French desserts lower in sugar, the focus is on more flavour using seasonal ingredients. Here are the latest recipes for Spring:
- Patrick Roger's Layered Chocolate Cake
- White Asparagus Recipe: French Clafoutis with Lemon
- Rhubarb and Custard Cheesecake
- Orange Cheesecake: Easy Baked Recipe that's Fresh and Zesty
- Pure 100% Cacao Chocolate Mousse Recipe by Patrice Chapon
- Honey Biscuits with Lemon
- French Lemon Tart (Tarte au citron)
- Classic French Niçoise Salad (Salade Niçoise)
Popular Spring Recipes
- French Pea Soup (Potage Saint-Germain)
- Creamy Lemon Pasta Sauce
- Corsican Cheese Lasagna (A Lazy Cannelloni au Brocciu Recipe)
- Nettle Pesto (Pesto d'Orties)
- French Crème Caramel (flan aux oeufs au caramel)
- Strawberry Clafoutis with Almond Flour
- French Butter Cookies (Palets Bretons)
- Rhubarb Sorbet (Sorbet à la rhubarbe)
- Almond Milk Rice Pudding (Vegan)
- Rhubarb Cake with Orange and Rose
- Gluten Free Brownies
- Macaron Berry Sherry Trifle (Red, White & Blue)
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 Parisian patisseries, chocolate shops and where to find many of the best macarons in Paris, best hot chocolate 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!