In this video, I take you with me into the kitchen. I'll be cooking a breakfast for Valentine's Day and I'll show you what I'm doing while explaining cooking and breakfast related vocabulary words.

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Hello everyone. I hope you're well and having a great day. Today I'm going to offer you a slightly different video. I'm taking you with me into the kitchen. In a few days' time, it'll be Valentine's Day, the occasion to treat your lover. So we're going to cook a French breakfast together. To start, I'm going to squeeze an orange juice. To squeeze orange juice, I'm going to use oranges. I'm going to take two, I think that'll be enough to fill a glass.

I've already made a video on all the vocabulary of breakfast in French, so I'll put it on top of it and you'll have a second video on the same theme. I'm going to pour the orange juice I've just squeezed into the glass.

Here's an orange juice to start with, I'll set it aside and we'll get on with preparing the rest of the breakfast. So now I'm going to make a little fruit salad, so I'm going to do everything cold first and I'll do everything hot last so that it's still warm when it's served. Stay until the end because I'm going to teach you how to make French toast. It's a typically French recipe, called French toast.

For my fruit salad, I took an apple, a tangerine, a kiwi and a banana. It's a bit old, a bit brown, but I think it's still good. You can put any fruit you like in a fruit salad, depending on where you live, but seasonal fruit is always good. A fruit salad is just a mixture of fresh fruit. On to the banana!

I peel the banana, that's what they call it to remove the skin. I cut banana slices.

So I'm switching to apple. I'm only going to make half a piece, I think that will be enough.

And then the kiwi. I'll take, I'll take what's called a saver. It's easier to peel the skin off the fruit. I cut the kiwi into pieces and I'm going to put it all in a little bowl. So I put a little kiwi, a little tangerine, a little banana. And some apple. We're going to mix it up a bit. And then, I'll put in a little lemon juice. If you have fresh lemons, that's better.

I'm going to use lemon, bottled juice, because I don't have any lemon. Here, I put a little lemon in and I'll mix it up. The little fruit salad is ready. I made a little too much fruit, but I'll save it for a second bowl later. I also went to buy a croissant. It's a viennoiserie, croissants, it's typically French, I'm sure you've already heard of it. It's a bit complicated to make them yourself, so I went to the boulangerie to get it. So I also picked up a baguette at the boulangerie. The baguette is a typical French bread. I'm going to cut some pieces. At breakfast, it's often eaten with butter or jam.

I'm going to put a little bowl in to make it pretty.

Then I'll put it all on a tray. I'll show you, I'll put it all on a tray like this, to make my partner breakfast in bed. While we're on the subject of Valentine's Day, I'll just explain. I say my partner, so generally, that's what you say when you're an adult, but you're not married. So we say my partner and my companion. When you're married, you say my husband and wife or my husband, my wife.

And when you're a bit younger, when you're a teenager or still a student, you'll say my boyfriend or girlfriend for the girls. Here I've taken a little jam, here I've taken cherry and orange, but you can take the flavors you prefer.

I'm also going to make a little bowl where I'm going to put cottage cheese, it's like yogurt with a little muesli, cereal. A little bit of cottage cheese and I'll put a little bit of muesli on top.

We're going to tackle French toast. Why is it called pain perdu in French? We call it pain perdu because we have to use bread that's a bit old. I don't think you can see it very well, but it's not fresh. It's from the day before, or the day before that, from a few days ago. This recipe was invented to avoid throwing bread away, to avoid wasting it. That's why it's called French toast.

This is bread that would have been thrown away if we hadn't made this recipe, because it's no longer fresh.

I'm going to make a recipe today for two people, because I want to eat them too.

For this, you'll need two slices of bread from a few days ago. If you want to make this recipe and you only have fresh bread, you can put it in the toaster to harden it a little. Because if it's too soft, it won't work. If it's too fresh, it'll be too crumbly. So I need my bread, eggs...

I used two eggs, milk and powdered sugar, or if you have cane sugar, that's fine too. You'll see it's a really simple recipe. And all these ingredients, wherever you are in the world, I think you can find them to make French toast. I'm going to break my eggs.

In a bowl. And two. I mix it up a bit. I'm going to need about 130 milliliters of milk, more or less. After that, you can adapt the recipe depending on how many people you are. Here I make it for two people.

So I take my measuring cup, mix the milk with the eggs. I mix it again and then I'm going to need plus or minus 25 grams of sugar. We'll weigh it on the scale.

Mixing. You can also mix with a whisk if you like, but a fork is fine. There aren't many ingredients. It's quite easy. The mixture is ready.

So now I'm going to need a frying pan in which I'm going to put a little butter-you can put about 10 grams. I'm going to need a soup plate. In my soup plate, I'm going to pour my mixture. You could have already done it in the soup plate, but mine isn't very suitable for putting on the scales. I'm going to heat the butter in the frying pan. I take a small plate so I can put my French toast on it. When the butter has melted, you take your slightly stale, and therefore slightly hard, bread and dip it in the liquid we've prepared. It has to be soaked. Here are my slices of bread, all soaked. Then I put them in the frying pan on top of the butter.

Two by two. You see, I put them like this. They need to cook for about 2 minutes on each side. I take them out of the pan and put them on my little plate. You can add a little butter, but you don't have to. The butter is mainly to prevent them from sticking and to make them a little softer.

While it finishes cooking, I'm going to make a little coffee in this HelloFrench cup. Generally, in the morning in France, we'll have a tea or a coffee. And the children, they will rather drink cocoa or chocolate in milk.

So there you have it, our French toast. So, you can eat them like that or you can put a little sugar on top. I usually put a little sugar on top. You can also put a little jam, you can choose. You can also put a little fresh fruit on top, as we had some left over from the fruit salad. It's delicious on French toast. If you like, you can even add a little whipped cream. The coffee's ready now, so all I have to do is set out my tray. On my tray I'm going to put my French toast, I'm going to prepare a little plate where I'm going to put a little butter, because we love to eat butter for breakfast with my jams and my chopped baguette. My coffee, my fruit salad, my muesli with fromage blanc, my orange juice, the croissant I picked up at the bakery. And as it's Valentine's Day, I'm going to add a little flower to make my tray even prettier.

And there you have it. I hope you enjoyed this video, and that you're now ready to prepare and cook a French breakfast. If you liked this video, don't forget to give it a like. And if you're new, don't forget to subscribe to the channel to receive all my videos. I wish you a very happy Valentine's Day if you celebrate it. See you soon.