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  • Corn and Tomatoes

    Soon we’ll be savoring sliced tomatoes still hot from the field, and ears of corn not yet shucked, smoking on the grill.

  • After the Storm

    Glowing light between day and night.

  • Who’s Gonna Clean the Fish

    I had cooked fresh salmon, but I had never gone fishing. I was used to buying fish fillets, not whole fish. I was a fish cleaning virgin.

  • Greens and Perennial Love

    We made choices together years ago. A family has grown on gardens sowed. Each harvest has been different. We are smarter and more efficient. Perennial Love.

  • Greens and Perennial Love

    We made choices together years ago. A family has grown on gardens sowed. Each harvest has been different. We are smarter and more efficient. Perennial Love.

  • Sage Crepuscule

    Sweet scent of surrender suggests itself in royal blue. Sage crepuscule speaks to me of you.

  • Clean the Collard Greens

    Clean the greens sown and grown by a man with his hands.

  • The new postcard for Joe's Place May 29

    Postcard for event. Martha Cinader appears at Joe’s Place for storytelling and book signing.

  • The new postcard for Joe’s Place May 29

    Postcard for event. Martha Cinader appears at Joe’s Place for storytelling and book signing.

  • Blessings of Today

  • I Love Snow Petals

    I love white flower petals in my kitchen garden and the perennials that greet me in the spring time and the busy bees pollinating the

  • Foggy Morning on Paris Mountain

    with flower petal snow…  

  • The View from my Kitchen Window

    Now we have a baby fruit orchard and all the variety of trees are beginning to bloom. From here on in it will be a competition between the insects, the birds, the squirrels and us for the fruit.

  • Signs of Spring

    I’m the keeper of the herbs around here, a not so difficult task, since many of them are perennials. Harder is to keep my cats from digging up the precious asparagus rooting underground over the winter.

  • Dreamscape Now Available as an e-book

    The second edition of Dreamscape: Real Dreams Really Make a Difference is now available in your favorite e-book format.

  • Frankenstein Egg

    Since we’ve been collecting eggs from our chickens, we have gotten some small ones, some with twin yolks, one yolkless egg, and one without a shell at all but still perfectly contained within the membrane. But this is our first Frankenstein egg…

  • Book Cover for the Second Edition of Dreamscape

    I’m excited to do some more storytelling when this book comes out. In the meantime, here’s the book cover! If you click on the pic, you can see it full size.

  • Remembering Cleven "Goodie" Goudeau

    He gave generously of his time to everyone, and his knowledge of every aspect of the visual arts was vast. But he didn’t just know a lot, and he wasn’t just helpful and kind, he was also prolific.

  • Black Eye Burritos – an American Dinner

    Maybe I should refrain and just own up to a little yuppiness and call what I make wraps, but then again, if I’m using home made poblano sauce from my hand picked tomatillos? But then again if I’m going to use black eyed peas instead of black beans? I confess. Sometimes I have conversations in…

  • Mella now available on i-Tunes

    For those of you looking for wholesome ways for your children to use their i-Tunes gift card, Mella and the Python Healer is now available on i-Tunes for $1.99.

  • Giving Poetry Away

  • Mella and the Python Healer

    Courage and honor and faithfulness never get old, and the story of this African girl who becomes a queen, remains as vibrant and relevant today as it was centuries ago, and may even be the origin of the medical symbol of the serpent still used today.

  • Smoke Horse Spirit

    I gave this brass horse to my husband as a gift, and he put it on the very top of the house, always watching out, always ready, just like my husband.

  • It’s better the second time

    You can take her out of New York, but she’ll still want bagels. Not from the supermarket either. She might even dream about bagels and wake up with a little drool leaking from between her lips. But that doesn’t mean she ever knew how to make them herself.

  • Breakfast dinner, before, after and ten minutes later.

    With about five dozen eggs in the fridge, it seemed like a good night for a breakfast dinner…

  • How to Get Going Now with your First Spring Garden

    Just like for a first date, if you plan ahead for your first garden, you’ll have a better experience. And don’t try to make everything happen the first time around. Leave some space for your garden to grow. If it turns into a love affair, then your ideas and your abilities will grow with your…

  • Eat until you’re satisfied…

    If the food you eat is delicious, nutritious and made with Love, you won’t get fat.

  • Homestyle Puff Pastry

    I simply use a different technique to create a homestyle puff pastry that is not so time consuming or difficult. It doesn’t look as pretty, but sure does taste flaky and delicious. The secret is to cut up your dough instead of mixing it.

  • Homestyle Puff Pastry

    I simply use a different technique to create a homestyle puff pastry that is not so time consuming or difficult. It doesn’t look as pretty, but sure does taste flaky and delicious. The secret is to cut up your dough instead of mixing it.

  • Smoky Carrot Sweet Potato Soup

    The smoky flavor of the stock made the soup especially delicious. It had a rich creamy texture to it without using any cream at all.

  • Home is where the hearth is

    Home is where the hearth is.

  • Cinnamon Rolls for Everyone

    Early this grey, rainy Saturday it felt like a cinnamon roll morning to me, so I followed my feeling and spread a few smiles around. Cinnamon pecan raisin rolls with a maple, hazelnut glaze to be exact.

  • A bowl of beautiful strawberries

    in mid-November. A sweet surprise treat while walking in my neglected garden.

  • A bowl of beautiful strawberries

    in mid-November. A sweet surprise treat while walking in my neglected garden.

  • Taking Stock after the Summer of Rain

    Even with less than what we planned, we have enough. What’s more, after my husband completed the chicken coop and we successfully raised fourteen hens, we now collect fresh eggs every day from our chickens.

  • Taking Stock after the Summer of Rain

    Even with less than what we planned, we have enough. What’s more, after my husband completed the chicken coop and we successfully raised fourteen hens, we now collect fresh eggs every day from our chickens.

  • Today’s Harvest

    Onion chives, green tomatoes, jalapeños,tarragon, strawberries, dried jalapeño and banana peppers, banana peppers, poblano peppers, bell peppers, fresh figs on the kitchen counter.

  • Today’s Harvest

    Onion chives, green tomatoes, jalapeños,tarragon, strawberries, dried jalapeño and banana peppers, banana peppers, poblano peppers, bell peppers, fresh figs on the kitchen counter.

  • Chicken Keeping Honeymoon

    We are still excited enough about our eggs for the whole family to keep count of how many we collect each day. Today I collected eight for the first time.

  • Chicken Keeping Honeymoon

    We are still excited enough about our eggs for the whole family to keep count of how many we collect each day. Today I collected eight for the first time.