We’re by no means self-sufficient, but we’re trying to take small steps towards self-sufficiency.

That means making most of our food from scratch, growing what we can and trying to buy the rest from markets, and eating in season.

This past weekend there seemed to be a glut of lemons at the market we frequent, so we bought a bag. Pants was a tad sceptical that we would use them, so I promised him carrot cake with lemon cream cheese icing.

But I had plans for the rest of the bag. Pants LOVES lemon butter, we tend to stock up at Tarcutta (they have a fantastic craft co-op that we can’t pass without coming home with various jams and the occasional fresh shorn fleece) when we roadtrip to Albury to see my goddaughters.

So I got up early one morning, armed with a pile of lemons, half a block of unsalted butter, some eggs and sugar and made him a wee batch of delicious lemon butter.

He loves it on bread, but I think it’s fantastic on home made rice pudding. Yum.