Whether you're taking some time for yourself on a weekend morning, preparing a weekly Sunday brunch with the family or expecting company for a light meal, these 10 easy brunch recipes add a little extra something to your day.

Make your brunch menu your own by mixing and matching dishes, serving a combination of recipes as a brunch buffet, or asking guests to contribute one dish for a potluck brunch.

Our best brunch recipes:

1. Pork and Chicken Liver Pâté with Late Harvest Wine Jelly
Tiny cubes of dessert-wine jelly lend elegance and a sweet balance to a tasty liver pâté with salt pork.

2. Goat Cheese and Radish Spread
Children's taste buds are often not mature enough to appreciate liver, and even some adults don't like its fine flavour, so it's best to offer another appetizer, such as this simple goat cheese spread. Spread on toasted baguette slices and garnish with sprigs of fresh chervil or parsley.

3. Lemony Ricotta Pancakes
These light and fluffy pancakes are great with fruit but even better with golden corn syrup and butter.

4. Saffron Butter Buns
These fabulous deep yellow, rich and perfectly textured butter buns rise and are baked together in the pans, which makes for an attractive presentation. Pull them apart at the table.

5. Poached Eggs on Ham with Pea Shoots and Butter Sauce
The colours of this dish really say spring! As there are a few parts to be put together, get one of your guests to help you plate, so everything is hot when served.

6. Apple and Pecan Coffee Cake
For this sweet Jewish-style coffee cake, make sure that all ingredients are at room temperature. Serve with coffee or tea.

7. Lemon Rhubarb Tart
If you like rhubarb, you probably like other tart fruits, such as lemons. Not surprisingly, they go very well together, especially when balanced by the sweeter flavour of orange, as in this elegant tart.