At woolworths anchor butter was almost ten bucks today. Here is a helpful tip. When butter is on sale stock up and freeze it. This will get you going until they go back down in price again.

[–] Dave 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The warehouse has store brand butter that's normally cheaper or on par with the cheapest Woolworths butter. They don't seem to use it as a loss leader anymore though, I haven't seen $5 butter in a long time.

Also good tip on the freezing. We tend to just keep it in the fridge for months without caring about the best before date, not sure how bad that is 🫤.

[–] Fizz 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A we deferated from lemmy.ml? All the communities im subscribed to on there are showing no posts. I checked defed.xyz and it doesnt show we are defederated.

[–] Dave 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

No, no recent changes. Do you have an example community for me to investigate?

Edit: There seems to be no lag between us and Lemmy.ml, and for example this community has a post from 2 hours ago: !asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] Fizz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This happens on both mobile and browser.

[–] Dave 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you've somehow blocked the instance. Unblocking depends on the exact way you are accessing but on the main lemmy.nz website from a browser, go to the user settings, click "Blocks", then look for the "Block instance" section. Click the X to remove it from your blocked instances.

[–] Fizz 2 points 5 days ago

Ah you're right I did block it. Thanks.

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[–] liv 2 points 3 days ago

Adorable. I like how the sofa and the cat's forehead are both striped.

[–] deadbeef79000 4 points 6 days ago

Awww, he looks just like my childhood cat. He was a cranky old bastard.

[–] NoRamyunForYou 3 points 6 days ago

Super nice

[–] Dave 2 points 6 days ago

Cute!

[–] Dave 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

For the first time in a long time today I made ice cream (well, I cooked it up a couple of days ago then ran it through the ice cream machine this morning).

Made a vanilla one (with vanilla paste). I was planning orange chocolate chip but then I remembered how impossible it is to find orange essence at the supermarket these days.

[–] liv 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait there is such a thing as an icecream machine?!

[–] Dave 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yip! There are various types, but I have one that works in a similar way to this: https://www.briscoes.co.nz/product/1044163/zip-ice-cream-maker/

There is a bowl with thick walls, with the walls filled with some special liquid like the kind of ice packs you might put in your chilly bin. You put this in the freezer for a couple of days to get really frozen, and you mix up an ice cream mix. I have a recipe I like that has egg yolks, cream, milk, sugar, flavour and you carefully cook it, then I normally put it in the fridge at least overnight so it starts out cold.

You then take the special bowl out of the freezer, and attach the motorised part and turn it on, then pour in the mixture. It has plastic blades that go around the sides of the bowl scraping off the mixture as it freezes against the sides of the frozen bowl, keeping the mixture constantly moving. You let it run about 20 mins, and it becomes a thick but still runny mixture, then you scoop it into a container and put it in the freezer to finish off freezing.

It's a bit of work and definitely doesn't save any money over store bought, but things taste better when you made them yourself 😆

[–] liv 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That does sound like a rigmarole but hey, icecream is awesome!

Also you can try some of those weird vintage icecream flavours like cucumber and parmesan.

[–] Dave 1 points 23 hours ago

Ha! Take that, people who say jam and cheese, honey and cheese, banana and cheese, etc are weird. Parmesan ice cream is more proof cheese goes with anything!

I love that ice cream invention and how similar it is to what I use today. It's basically the same design except for some innovation in the freezing bowl and adding a motor!

[–] Panq 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

We recently got one of those ice cream gizmos that can (among other things) turn a brick of frozen fruit into a sorbet. It's surprising how good something incredibly basic like canned pineapple turns out.

Haven't tried any actually adventurous recipes yet.

[–] Dave 3 points 6 days ago

I have one of those basic ones you put a special bowl in the freezer ahead of time then take it out and put it into the spinning thing to make the ice cream. Got it as a wedding present so it's lasted quite a long time! Though various parts are held together with duct tape, it still works well.

I don't think I've every tried to make sorbet. I might have early on, it was a long time ago. I ended up with a nice base ice cream recipe I liked then have added various things over the years. I made hokey pokey a few times, that was pretty good. Lots of orange chocolate chip which is always a favourite. I've thrown strawberries or raspberries in to a vanilla base which is pretty good. I should try some others but don't really use it too much these days.