It’s the day after Valentine’s Day and you’re feeling slightly worse for wear. Perhaps you’re reeling after a few too many glasses of wine with your significant other. Or maybe you’re hungover after a Jagerbomb laced “singles night”. Why not treat yourself and your partner (or unplanned one-night-stand) to an indulgent breakfast? Here are two simple recipes that will make your breakfast spectacular. The first goes by many names; eggy bread and omelette bread are two of the less appealing. For romantic reasons we’ll stick to calling it French toast; in this case layered with Nutella, strawberries and banana.

The most important thing with French toast is to make sure the bread is slightly stale, so that it mops up the egg and milk mixture. Avoid soaking the bread for too long as it can make it difficult to get the soggy bread into the pan without it breaking up.

The second recipe, a fruit smoothie, is a no-brainer. It’s particularly good if you’re feeling nauseous and incapable of digesting solid foods. It’s red - that’s romantic, right? Raspberries are also a bona-fide super food chocked full of antioxidants, so if last night was a little heavy, they’ll have you feeling right as rain in no time.

French toast with Nutella, strawberry and banana

Serves: 2

Cooking time: 20-30 minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 slices of bread (thick farmhouse white ideally, better if stale)
• 2 eggs
• A splash of milk
• 1 tsp butter
• Nutella
• 1 banana
• A handful of strawberries
• Icing sugar (optional, but looks cool)

Directions

1. Add the eggs to a bowl with a splash of milk, beat until mixed.

2. Place bread into the bowl to absorb the mix.

3. Remove bread from the bowl once soaked

4. Heat 1 tsp of butter in a medium sized pan.

5. Once the butter is melted and shimmering, place the bread into the pan.

6. Fry until golden brown and then flip over.

7. Repeat.

8. Remove French toast from the pan, place on a board.

9. Liberally coat one side with Nutella.

10. Dust with icing sugar.

11. Chop up your strawberries and bananas and place on top of your Nutella’d french toast.

12. Serve and enjoy!

Rasperry and apple smoothie

Serves: 2

Cooking time: 5 mins

• 400ml apple juice
• 2 handfuls of frozen raspberries (add more if you want it thicker)

Directions:

1. Put the apple juice and frozen raspberries into a blender or food processor.

2. Blend.

3. Pour into two small glasses.

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