Reservoir Hill House of Peace

A ministry of the North Baltimore Mennonite Church and the Atlantic Coast Conference of Mennonite Church USA

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The mission of RHHP is to provide a Christian community setting where persons of various cultures learn from each other, the surrounding neighborhood, and life in Baltimore city. We believe that people's lives are blessed by being part of faith communities.

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Easter egg coloring

We had our annual RHHP Easter egg coloring event. The asylum seekers didn't know what to make of this curious ritual. Ellen made delicious Easter bread.

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Adolphus's dessert pancake

Got pancake but no syrup? no problem. A couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream will do the trick.

Cameroonian student food

This is an omelette made with spaghetti and sauteed onion. According to Remi this is a staple of students in Cameroon. Cameroon ramen?

NICOLE'S STIR FRY

This is Nicole's first attempt at a stir fry of cucumber, and tomatoes

Ellen's eggplant ricotta pizza

Eggplant from our garden, the crust is whole wheat with blended lentils

Joseph's mushroom and baby bok choy stir-fry

Simple and delicious

Amy's Easter bunny 2012

made with black beans, no eggs and no oil! This stuff is actually good for you....

Ellen's ginger bread pigs

it's vegetarian!

Remi's all-purpose sauce

this is a blend of onions, ginger root, tomatos and herbs. It serves as a base of various bean and meat stews. The green part is blended Italian parsley

Remi's beignets

basically like a chewy donut

Remi's prize winning Cameroonian cabbage and chicken stew with peanut sauce

Enna's pupusa

cheese pupusa and coleslaw with mayo

Anna's stir fried eggplant and sweet potato

That's her own improvisation.

Sarah and Jeff's stir fry

with help from Joseph and a generous splash of soy sauce.

Mama Ellen's crustless pumpkin pie

Ancient secret recipe straight off the label of the can of pumpkin. Delicious and relatively low fat.

More tomatoes

Heirloom tomatoes in the Waverly Saturday Market

There are tomatoes I had never seen in Seattle. There were variegated ones that came in shades of orange and yellow..

Sarah's quick pizza

Sarah was hungry and decided to make a quick pizza with a mix.

Honey-nut spread

I wonder how they arranged the nuts along the side. It is mostly almond and walnuts inside. It makes the old regain their youth.

Honey-nut spread

We found this in a market in Highland Town, a diverse East Baltimore neighborhood. It is from Turkey.

Congolese delicacy

Food from the old country imported from Africa. I sampled one. It had a crunchy casing but chewy on the inside.

Michael's first home cooked dinner

He made a dish of chicken, tomatoes, potatoes and onion. He was very proud of it.

Michael's first bread

One of the pleasures of living in RHHP is to witness how many of the asylum seekers learn new skills to adapt to life in America without their wives or cooks. Michael is a doctor and public health professional from Ethiopia and this is his first attempt at baking which turned out very well.

Baclava

A visitor from Turkey brought this tray of delicious (and sticky) baclava to a potluck.

Unknown dish at a potluck in RHHP

We are often blessed by a variety of foods that guests bring to our potluck dinners.

Hassan's dinner

Hassan, former RHHP asylee, also known to us as the maker of yellow food, is shown here with his typical Iraqi (his version) dinner of fried fish, salad dressed with lemon juice and, flat bread and water melon. He usually marinates his meats and fish with tumeric and hence gained the reputation for making yellow food.

Joseph's famous flan

Joseph served the RHHP residents a Christmas lunch.

Ellen's hallal pizza

Ellen made this with cheese made without enzymes. Hassan's son, Fawzi, visited us for dinner. Hassan was a former asylum seeker who lived here but is now with his family in Syria.

The forty-five minute roast turkey http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/21/dining/11948335

This is the recipe demonstrated on NYTimes.com by Mark Bittman (the Minimalist) but did not work out as planned. It took more like two hour but it was still faster than the convention method which in this case would have taken four of five hours (15 pounder). This one, by the way, was the backup turkey. I cooked another 15 pounder the conventional way.

Colorful staple

Clever use of ingredients - pizza on a tortilla, frequent dinner for some residents

Appetizer

You will also find sparks of creativity such as this coming out of our kitchen

Cameroonian grilled fish, fried plantain and pan-fried tofu

RHHP potlucks offer an international cuisine

RHHP Christmas potluck

Potlucks are an important part of the RHHP community life

RHHP kitchen

The kitchen is often the hub of community life in RHHP

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The Mission of RHHP reflects that of the North Baltimore Mennonite Church, which is to share Christ’s reconciling love with our communities and the world. The RHHP provides a Christian setting where persons can live together, serving and learning from the surrounding neighborhood and Baltimore city through non-profit agencies, churches and daily living. We believe that people's lives are blessed by being part of faith communities.

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