I am hoping to do something new with my Sundays, though as you know my plans have a bad habit of going array. But I want to Introduce you all to some of the new readers and commenters of these pages and some new collections I have discovered on my own travels. Often we see names as we are wandering about reading and commenting ourselves. With all our names intertwined I thought I might make some introductions on my lazy sundays.
You may have noticed that I am not using that word that rhymes with frog, and bog and sprog and chocolate Log. I much prefer the words writers, pages, collectors, imagery, colours and lovers of art. The word that rhymes with hog and smog is slightly brutal (what is the word I am looking for) tacky somehow. Maybe the word is base or even a wee bit ugly, and I think that the pages I read, the ones you write, are beautiful and tasty and poetic and deeply informative. A much better reason to be out here On the Webs.
I suppose it is a bit early to think about cleaning the pool!
So may I introduce you to a few more charming pages.
remedial eating Molly is a delightful and intelligent cook with delicate beautifully designed food imagery and two very busy children. The really fascinating thing about these pages is the photographs she takes of both. Weaving her text and recipes through vivid and colourful everyday images. She does not post often and is well worth the visit when she does pop up.
how sweet eats. Jessica is alarmingly beautiful and young. She is producing sumptuous pages full of gorgeous food. Her excellence is in simple clear presentation. She also has a generous exuberant sense of humour wandering through her words.
philosopher mouse of the hedge Karen and Phil have some startling and often humorous observations about life. They are not backwards in coming forwards. I love Karen’s visits though Phil is described as the writer in the About page. I love the pages. And I sincerely hope I have the authors names correct.
pseu is a poet, a lovely succinct writer and a photographer with an eye for detail. I think she is a watcher. One of those people who sees what the rest of us have just walked blithely past.
writing feemail . Renee writes as she reacts. There is a lovely honesty about her work. She is current and informative so I love to visit her to see what is going on.
Cooking Spree. Ani is another food find for me. Her work is breathtaking. She has a deep appreciation of light and lightness both in her food and in her food photographs. Her joy of food and her kitchen (and other peoples kitchen’s) comes through very strongly in her work.
There now. The Rosemary is out on the deck taking in the sun. 
Some Sunday reading for those people who, like me, are not watching The Big Game. Not because I don’t appreciate those good looking fellas running up and down chasing the wee ball and showing off their thighs and (well – you know). It is just that I don’t understand the rules. So I become deeply irritating for those who want to watch. Though the nice boys do spend a lot of time in huddles talking to each other and this is lovely. I like men who really talk to each other!
And yes that is a photograph of ash. Oak ash. Now at the risk of you thinking we have gone completely bonkers, we are going to make our own soap from scratch. The first stage is to gather a bucket full of hardwood ash. I will let you know when we proceed to stage two, which is the wetting then evaporating of the ash. The scientist in the family is in charge of this one. Just for the record it is very difficult to make ash look pretty!
Have a lovely Sunday and for you guys over the other side, Good Monday Morning!
c
The Kitchen's Garden 
75 responses to “May I introduce you to a few people I have read with this week”
You did great with the ash picture. Is that soda ash? Seems like I heard that from elderly relatives who lived on the farms when I was little…They were all pretty self sufficient.
It is those elderly people that i love to talk to. they knew the old ways. There is so much information that has been lost about living self sufficiently.. c
Here you go again, linking us up with yet more cool blogs on which to spend our time and think-fulness. Well, off we must trot then. But thanks meanwhile for another batch of fine photos, some inspirations and–you know, the usual Celi collection of treats! Fortunately, I can leave the time-consuming fine soap production to others because our favorite old-fashioned steakhouse here does all of their own butchering, keeps all of their beautiful beef tallow, and makes a line of lovely soaps from it. Haven’t decided on a favorite yet: mint? Rosemary? Cinnamon? . . .
Lucky you having home made soap down the road! How cool.. c
Oh my goodness Celia! What a dear and generous thing, sharing friends the way you do! I’m so grateful to you for mentioning me (so kindly!) and am looking forward to meeting the others! i’m a rather “late comer” to your blog (pout), but I do so LOVE it here! Thank you again Celia!
And I’m excitedly awaiting the artisan production of lavender soaps! mmmmm
So am I. It is taking ages to get all the ash together though! c
You are most welcome. Your pages are lovely! And now you have been introduced so you are official.. c
Wow I did not know an ingredient in soap was ash. How cool it is to learn something new every day!
Have a wonderful day Celia.
You have a lovely sunday too Tia! c
some fantastic reads!
Hey Rumpy! c
I think the ash looks great – somehow you manage to photograph the most ordinary things and make them look good. I look forward to seeing how the soap-making goes. I always meant to do it, as I have plenty of manuka ash from the fire at the bach, but somehow I never got round to it.
Fingers crossed then! If it comes out as good as the home made soap I buy we will be very happy!.. c
I’ll have to check out those pages!
there are some lovely writers in there and some good food too! c
We are watching the Big Game as I type.In fact this is my last stop for the night. I watch for the commercials, anyway.
I can hear them! that is enough for me!!! c
Thanks for the introduction to some new foodie friends. I would love to learn how to make my own lemongrass soap. My favorite! BAM
Oh yes lemongrass that would be great!! c
Thanks for the links and summaries – always great to hear of new places to visit. Looking forward to the soap.
So am i Annie! c
Nice…
I’m going to look forward to your Sunday feature. Thoroughly enjoyed reading those that you listed, and gosh, I’m astounded at how professional some of them are put together.
Thank you for the introduction to some new reads Celia. Soap, oh how very exciting! There is nothing you cannot do and do not do Celi, you are truly a remarkable and inspirational lady!
🙂 Mandy
Soap… truly nothing goes to waste on the farmy! And everything has the potential to be manufactured there! Soon we may be seeing packages coming out branded ‘Made on the Farmy’ 🙂
Thank you for the blog recommendations…
I remember my granny making Lye soap many times, though I was only a child and wasn’t interested in the process. It was always preceded by a “Hog” killing, which, wasn’t my favorite winters day. But, the fresh ham, smoked country ham, bacon, pulled pork, roast, and homemade sausages I remember from those days,can certainly not be purchased in stacks of vacuum-packed hyper-processed supermarket bins.
As far as the soap, I do remember the Ash, as well as Lye, and of course the “Lard”. That is one thing they have “Med and Bred” out of Pork today, the fat. Albeit, if eaten regularly, leaner is healthier, though flavoring, and seasoning are greatly sacrificed, and it is really difficult to make your own ( good ) country sausage. I have added fat from many sources after grinding a shoulder from the butcher shops of today, but, it just isn’t the same.
Best of luck with the soap…We only used it for our hands after working the hatchery house, the hogs, harvesting tobacco, or scaling fish. So, a bar of it was rarely found indoors, beyond the porch room utility sink, as by that time modernization was already breaking up the family farms. Along with all her domesticating, gardens, orchards, canning, jellies and pie, she ran a small country store…but, none of the (2) brands of soap she sold could ever remove a days farm build up from your hands like a bar of her homemade Lye soap…
Still, one aroma that rest today in my memory…that I hope to never to smell again…is “Dial” soap…which was the choice of the store bought brand. Too much of a good thing you could say…is quite enough.
Bless You
paul
fantastic info there. And I have NO IDEA what to expect with this soap making business! I am tending towards olive oil but i am not the Scientist in Charge. Maybe we can make both kinds and see what is better! c