Here you are now. Your weekend reading. A few sites for you to visit. As usual I have a few that some of us know well, and also a few new ones who have popped up in my comments this week. Have fun snooping about.
Everybody Likes Sandwiches Jeanette aka Kickpleat has been writing this blog for years. The fact that she is a designer shines in her images, her food uses loads of vegetables and good proteins and sometimes is more a suggestion than a recipe (which as you know is right up my alley) but with that little twist to her work that will keep us interested. Lovely food and photographs.
movita beaucoup. Movita is new to my pages. She teaches ballet AND dances through her kitchen throwing lovely ingredients into bowls. I think she is primarily a baker and though I am not into cakes and things, I KNOW that many of YOU are. So if you want a moist chocolate oozy yummy cake.. go there today.. 
Taste Food . Lynda at Taste Food has pages that I return to again and again, I have successfully cooked a number of her dishes and her recipes are precise, balanced and eminently cookable. The result I get looks just like her picture – now you know how hard that is to do! I have introduced my father to her French Onion Soup and Third Son and his wife frequently make the Tart Tartine (the pear one but with apples too). We are actually regulars at Taste Food. This one is for you Connie!
Pease Pudding. Now here we have an English Girl who is now a New Zealand Girl who surfs and cooks. Although a trained chef she is just as happy mooching about her own kitchen (probably in her bare sandy feet) making gorgeous feeds for us. She has a light almost effervescent touch with food. She brings an international influence to Kiwi tucker and Oh My I can smell the scent of the beach in her work.. Wonderful. 
Saffron and Honey Ksenia is a lovely and generous food blogger. She travels and as far as I can make out has an international background. She will often bring us food from all over the world. Ksenia is not about the pictures or fancy pancy -she is about taste. Really good taste. She has a team of fellow foodies that she works with and often she will let us choose an ingredient for the month and then she is away, leading us through a complex and perfectly balanced myriad of menus using this ingredient. Her combinations show an educated imagination and a genuine care for our health.
Just a Smidgeon. Barbara’s work is quite simply beautiful. Her images are always so peaceful and full of such (.. what is the word.) Thought, care, passion, amazing attention to detail. She builds her images. The results are feminine, rich and startling. A poet, a cellist and a very good cook. I think she must live in a beautiful house. A house I would like to visit. 
This morning is dawning clear, it is 6.16 am, I am ready to post this to you and already the sky has that predawn blue with those washes of the most poignant of pinks, awaiting the sun. Thank you so much for all your kind thoughts and words for the Old Codger. He came through his surgery OK and will soon commence his long recovery. I am working on registering TonTon as a therapy dog so that we can visit together. Though there will have to be some work done. Not the least of which is teaching him to wear a harness. He has never even had a collar on his neck, let alone a leash. Ever. But this is a requirement. Can you imagine the horrified look on that dogs face when I leash him.
Yesterday evening a hawk chased the pigeons into the barn and proceeded to dive bomb them from his lofty perch. (With Our John cheering him on I might add). The cats went into a high state of agitation and the guineas decided to sleep outside on the fence (after a protracted screeching protest.) They hate hawks with a passion. The image of him (above) is terrible because I had to use a flash to catch the moving target so far up in the rafters. But hopefully we can identify him.
Of course the chickens with their bird brains took no notice of the drama at all and stood about introducing themselves to their own reflections in a puddle.
Today is poopy scooping day in the barn! A job I do not actively dislike as every shovel full goes into the compost pile and I love compost! All gardeners love compost!
Good morning!
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
64 responses to “Introductions and reflections have no shadows: Weekend Blog Reading”
That’s beautiful light on your chickens 😉
Today is looking like a good day too, hopefully get some light into the barn for some shots! Morning Mad! c
Very glad he came through the surgery okay. That’s always a testing time for the elderly. And I’m sure that your TonTon will be a champ at his new job. I love “dogs with jobs”. 🙂
And this breed love to work too, Morning Miskey! c
Thanks for the introductions, Celi; I’m looking forward to checking these sites out.
You are welcome, I like things to be low key on the weekend! c
I love the chicken in 3-D: he actual chicken, it’s shadow and its reflection in the water. Lovely.
And i hope you have time this weekend to take care of posting the Kreative Blogger information.
Ronnie
It is on my asap list Ronnie, I won’t forget! Looking forward to it.. c
A great post, as usual. I particularly loved the vainglorious chooks. The sooner you get Tonton ‘halter-trained’ the better. What would you do if you had to take him to the vet?
I say ‘get in’ and he walks (quaking) at my heel into the vets.. He carries one of their leashes in his mouth as per instructions, but he is trained to walk next to me. So even harnessed he will be following instructions. morning Viv. c
morning c. I once had a spaniel like that – no need for a lead. – the canine love of my life. But he had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the vets!
oh no poor fella! they just hate that smell, weirdly Ton will walk in through the front door but prefers to exit through the back door.. (first door he sees on his way out!)
He’ll be fine…especially after he goes a time or two, and knows the harness means Someplace Fun!
Lovely photos of the roosters today…Happy Mucking!
I went out to start mucking out and the hawk is still in there, and he flies at the windows in fright when I am there, so we have opened the really big doors in the hope that he will fly out.. c
I think your hawk is a Cooper’s Hawk. Possibly a Sharp-shinned Hawk. They are similar and hard to say definitely. Hope this helps. 🙂
That does help Bob, Thank you for dropping in, I can narrow it down from there, he is still in the barn, even with the big doors open, surely it is unusual to have a hawk set up housekeeping in a barn!! c
It’s good to have an update on how everyone is doing! And I think TonTon will be make a great therapy dog – I know you will be a patient teacher with him.
And thanks so much for the shout-out and your kind words! I really appreciate it!
You are most welcome, it is always a pleasure to visit your site.. c
Photos and new blogs to check out are making me smile this morning! Good morning, Cecilia, and so glad your friend made it through his surgery okay. ~Betsy
Morning Betsy darling!! c
Chickens I do not love. But photos of chickens, when so well-composed and lovely, I do love.
Sometimes chickens are not nice! c
I love your chook pictures!!
Morning Debra, hope you are getting some lovely fine Italian days! c
Your delicious dispatches with all the blog links in them lead me down a maze that could blow my whole morning! And then I come back to your blog and spend time with it…and well, I’m supposed to be finishing my own blog post so I can hit the publish button! And I can hear my hungry children’s feet on the floor upstairs, but the bed is so warm and cozy….and it’s Saturday…
Oh O, Hungry pitter patter of tiny feet, and you are like me getting up early to write.. it is a great time to work isn’t it! Morning Christine.. c
I’m catching up, so I had missed the story of the fall (though I have now read it) – I hope the surgery goes well so he can come home ASAP.
Thank you so much for your generosity Celi! Love checking out your recommendations for weekend reading! 2 of them I follow already, and the others I’m anxious to visit. Good morning, and good weekend, to you!