Freestyle Escape

Freestyle Escape is looking a picture with all this rain. Rainforest trees are in flower and both our dams are full. The wildlife is unbelievable: whip birds, kookaburras, ducks and many other birds in singsong. The fruit trees in the orchard are looking very happy indeed. The kaffir limes, tahitian limes, lemonade trees and kumquats are all fruiting. I picked the last of a bumper crop of tamarillos. Mmmm let me see..maybe panna cotta with tamarillo compote or tamarillo jam mmm yum.












Sally from Taste Trekkers cooked up a storm for our guests at the Escape house on Saturday night and then joined us at the Arthouse. For dinner, I did a yummy simple pasta with bacon and vine-ripened tomatoes and an awesome salad (using fresh herbs and nasturtium flowers from our herb garden) with a dressing of maple syrup, side of vinegar, olive oil and seeded mustard (delish). This and a few vinos..magic. Waking up to a beautiful morning I just had to make french toast with bacon and maple syrup for breakfast. Before you go getting jealous, we had to work it off weeding the herb garden which had become quite feral. The thought of which made Sally hightail it out of there straight after breakfast!