With quite a lot of eggs and kids home for the holidays – I have been scanning for some inspiration. So I made up a batch of Stephanie Alexander’s lemon curd with lemons from a neighbours tree. With this lemon curd you can spread it on toast – homemade pikelets, with cream on sponge cake and pavlova (more uses for using up fresh eggs).

Speaking of scanning for inspiration – while looking at my fave food blogs I came across this semolina pudding with raspberry topping, I made it last night for dinner with varying success. I loved it – just that perfect amount of creaminess and berry sweetness. The boy had it without berries and loved the vanilla creaminess, the hubby loved it too and the daughter just liked the berries on top. It sure is hard to please everyone – so just please yourself and make this (I had the leftover pot for breakfast and it was devine cold).

by Kathreen Ricketson of whipup.net