It happens all the time

[bill_schubert]

We had some cherry pie that I'd bought. HEB makes a decent cherry pie and sells half a pie for probably too much money. I don't check the price but I do eat the pie making it last four or five servings.

Dana said, 'Hey, you need to get come vanilla ice cream' obviously meaning I need to buy some before the pie is gone so I can have it with the pie. Too late.

But I did buy ice cream. Hers and mine. Both vanilla (she's lactose intolerant so Nada Moo).

And no pie. I was going to buy a small spice cake that HEB always has in their flat frig near the front door. But as I frequently do, 'that's dumb, I've got the makings at home and can do at least as well with stuff I've already paid for'.

Hence tonight's desert:



A joy for me is to have stuff on hand to throw together and make cake or cookies or bread without having to go the to the store. I can nearly always do that only occasionally having to grab some butter milk or something like that.

This was an entirely stuff on hand cake.

And, I have vanilla ice cream to go with it. Amazing how that works out.

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[msconduct]

For years buttermilk wasn't available in NZ at all, and it was expensive when we finally started making it, so I learned that you can make your own by adding 1 Tbsp of lemon juice or vinegar to 1 cup milk. Good to know if you need it in a hurry.

[bill_schubert]

Yeah, I know about that. I've also got some powder baker's buttermilk substitute. But if I'm making buttermilk biscuits I feel like I'm cheating without using the real stuff.

[msconduct]

I bet your buttermilk isn't $5.30 a litre [quart] though. You'd never guess we were the largest dairy exporter in the world. Although actually that's the problem - farmers can get high prices overseas so they're not inclined to offer the locals a discount. This is what happens when you remove agricultural subsidies. It made our farming sector one of the most efficient in the world, but it really hit us in the pocket.