Awesome weekend: Food Porn Warning!

Hi all,

GB and I took the pooches to Yallingup last Friday for a family holiday. It's the first time in about 18months that it's just been us and the dogs and not having to register for ridiculous triathlons! We rented a house right in the bush that was just fantastic. It was a public holiday on Monday so we had 3 nights down there. Had some marvellous food and wine - I took some pics so prepare yourself for some food porn!!

Friday  night we ate at Newtown House. We were the youngest people there by about 30 years!! It was really old fashioned in decor and food. No pics coz not worth it!

Saturday we were going to go to Flutes. Flutes has won nearly every award you can for food and wine. Called them in the morning to find out they were booked out til Monday! Of course a long weekend has everything super busy! Duh! So we managed to get in at Clairault Winery. The service was pretty shoddy unfortunately but the food was sensational. I had the spatchcock (pictured) and GB had a curry (not pictured). We shared dessert which was like a choc mousse with honeycomb.

Sunday we went to Leeuwin Estate. What a gorgeous setting! After a wine tasting in which we tried a fantastic $90 chardonnay, we went and sat down for lunch (where we ordered the $30 chardonnay!). Service was great and the food was just amazing. I had the duck cooked in masterstock with scallops. I must admit I struggled a bit with the duck unfortunately. It was quite chewy. GB had the marron and it was 2 massive whole marrons! Man were they tasty! We shared dessert again, (forgot to take a pic) a choc souffle with churros and it was out of this world.

GB and I then started checking out people around us and what they were ordering. GB made a comment about why you'd order fries at a fine dining restaurant like this one? I said - "have you seen the fries? they look awesome!" And we went back and forth like that. Then off I went to the loo and just as I returned a waitress came to the table with a bowl of fries looking confused. I said "Oh that's not ours, we've already had dessert". Then GB pops up with "actually that is ours, thanks!". He said if they were that awesome we should totally have some even if we have already finished dessert! And can I just say - Best. Fries. Ever! and also - Best. Husband. Ever!



Monday, we finally got to Flutes which is at Brookland Valley Estate. Another beautiful setting. Unfortunately again service was really shithouse. GB had to go to the counter to get a waiter's attention to order more drinks and dessert. Luckily their food was fantastic. I had the Flutes Trio which was half a marron (much smaller than the ones at Leeuwin), a piece of salmon (not sure if it was meant to be cold but it was, but it was still very tasty), a piece of wild barramundi on some cream cheesey stuff. Yum. GB had the fish of the day which was like smoked salmon steaks with scallops. (can you tell we love our scallops?) He said it was superb. He finished off with a cheese plate and I had dessert (of course). The creme brulee and the crumble was really tasty but the strawberry thing in the middle was far too sweet!

So you can see we had quite the gastronomically awesome weekend! Not to mention the fabulous wines to go with it! When we were in the house GB lit the wood fire - it was very romantic. Except for the dogs barking at the possums and kangaroos of course! They had a great old time running around the bush and exploring though. Baxter was exhausted and slept all the way home and even Westie slept most of the way!

Here is a pic of Bax in the car on the way home!

And here's a pic of him chewing his foot which is his latest trick...

Anyhoo, what a fab weekend it was. Looking forward to catching up with Cara from http://carasquest.blogspot.com/ for lunch tomorrow.

BTW - apart from pilates twice this week I've done jack all exercise. And I weighed 79.7kg this morning. Poop. Although it's still lower than I was at the Doc when I got my fill which is good. I'm struggling a bit with food this week - feeling super bloaty but not due for my period for another 10 days. Not sure what's up with that.

Anyhoo, best I do some work!