hey I'm Hilah and this is a vlog on
Hilah cooking so this video is part of a
series that we've been wanting to do for
a long time about entertaining where we
pick a party theme and then do a series
of videos to go along with that to show
people how to make the food how to make
the drinks how to do the decorations
without spending a whole bunch of money
and having a bunch of stuff they were
only gonna use once and then some you
know fun shots of my good-looking
friends enjoying a party the theme of
this party is for ants so it's a French
brunch party I did brunch
I know brunch has a bad rap because
people are like oh everybody drinks too
much and it's just an excuse to get
really drunk and so irresponsible but
honestly once you have a baby like
brunch and breakfast and lunch is the
most convenient time to entertain your
friends because by 7:00 p.m. you're just
totally exhausted so that's what we
found that works for us so we did a
brunch had our friends come over and I
don't know French brunch has a nice ring
to it so for my French brunch menu I
decided to do a couple different quiches
a quiche Lorraine which is a bacon
quiche and then also a mushroom quiche
for the vegetarians in the group because
there's a few some fresh fruit I'll just
decide you know whatever cherries are in
season so maybe I'll be cherries and
then some Peach Melba for dessert with
just a really really simple peach and
ice cream dessert that was invented by
Chef Escoffier those things would be
like the main items will do a little
quick herb vinaigrette salad I'm gonna
do a cheese tray and I learned all about
cheese from the owner event all his
cheese shop so that's was super fun and
then as it so happens as I was going
through the last few weeks planning this
brunch
Stephanie emailed me from France and
offered to send me a box of French
treats so I saw me taste some of those
and the put at my mouth video I'll link
to that and then we were also able to
serve some of those at the brunch like
the pate and everyone really liked it
and it was really fun to be able to
actually serve some actual French food
to my guests so and then for drinks
we just are doing a really simple
champagne and for anyone that wants a
non-alcoholic and making a lavender
lemonade because France is known for its
lavender fields its fields of lavender
so for the decorations I went with like
a French country or a French countryside
because that's a little bit easier a
little more accessible I think than
trying to do big lights big city city of
lights Paris because there's a lot more
leeway because everything's kind of
rustic you definitely want to have some
kind of fresh flowers you could do cut
flowers or even some nice potted herbs
would be a great way to do it if you're
like opposed to cut flowers because
you're like killing flowers I did some
cut flowers because I love color so for
the my vase rather than using just like
standard base I have one of these lay
parfait caning jars on these you can
still buy these they still make them but
I got I inherited some from my grandma
so I didn't have to buy them but I'll
put a link to where you can buy these if
you like them so use it as a vase look
at that and it's like a parfait on it
which is in French which means the
perfect I think so there you go that's
French if you don't have one of those
use a picture this is an antique picture
ceramic picture when I think of French
countryside I think of like lots of wood
lots of ceramics lots of neutral colors
and if you want a little punches of
color like blue and aqua and yellow and
pink so it's the kind of if there's a
lot of feminine touches to it lots of
like lacy floral patterns and like curve
the lines and stuff like this like this
is a really nice shaped pitcher a glass
picture would work too and then I've
also got this little weird ceramic it
used to I think it used to be like an
old liquor bottle or something so this
something like this would work see like
this terracotta like pottery would also
totally work for a French countryside
themed party and then when you're
setting your table I'm gonna do mine I
did mine buffet style just cuz we had a
pretty large group and I don't really
have enough seating anyway so people
would just eat standing out nobody cares
once they've had a few glasses of
champagne so when you're setting your
buffet table you want to think about
layers so cake stand use that to hold
one of your quiches and then you can
have another one on another platter
below it so then also by layer you can
fit
stuff on your table if you have like a
really laden table and then this bowl
which is really sort of a decorative
Bowl because look it has holes in it
guys you could not put pudding in here
but I used it as a little colander so I
filled it with cherries and then you can
brinch the cherries right in there and
it's an adorable little bowl also for my
grandma um so if you have any like
antique white or off-white bowls dishes
bust those out also lots of wood so this
is just a little wooden cutting board
little cutting boards like this I think
people love to give these as gifts
because they're really cute but they're
kind of too small to be very useful as a
cutting board but use them as a cheese
tray and it works great and then also
I've got some baskets here plain old
baskets I mean you don't need anything
fancy and then the only thing that I
actually bought was some brand new
little white and blue striped tea towels
that I can use to put in the basket and
like cover the bread up with it so it
looks you know looks like it just came
out of the oven and it did but it wasn't
my oven but I did buy the bread from you
know freshly made that morning from the
bakery place so there's a little bit
about some decorations you'll see them
in action
later on so I'm going to put all the
details all the recipes everything that
you need to host your own French brunch
at my website Hilah cooking calm /
French brunch I'll put the link below
I'm even made a Spotify playlist that
I'm gonna try to link to I think I can
do that with a bunch of French songs
that I you know that you could play edge
party so extra fun for that thanks so
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you