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½ lb.Tomatillos 4 chiles serranos 3 garlic cloves 1/2 bunch of cilantro salt 1/4 white onion   Crush garlic and onion in a mortar and pestle. or in a food processor on a light dice with no water.  Fill a saucepan with enough water to cover tomatillos and chiles. Boil the chiles for one minute on […]

2 lbs. pork shank (Chamorro) 2 lbs. pork backbone (espinazo) 1 tbsp. salt 2 lb. can of hominy   Puree: 4 oz. dry guajillo pack (red) chiles or to taste 1/2 white onion 2-4 peppercorns 3-4 cloves of garlic 1 tsp dry oregano   Place the pork and the salt in large pot with enough water to cover it. Boil for […]

Near the end of November, most of you will be receiving in the mail an appeal from us.  This concerns Panes y Peces (Loaves and Fishes), our primary fundraiser for 2022.  We are trying to raise $200,000 to fund our operations for parts of 2022 and 2023.   We also ask for contributions to our […]

The women who live at Casa de Paz are comforted to be able to speak their native Spanish in their new home, and there are other sources of comfort, chief among them food. They are, by and large, far from the foods of their homelands, and eating the food of another culture is a constant […]

Fiesta Latina took place on August 8, with over 200 people in attendance.  It was a major hit!  The program included a testimonial from one of our residents.  We followed with a delicious Mexican dinner, a silent auction and the performance of Cincinnati Baila dancers. Special thanks go out to the MC, Diana Lara and […]

  By Daniel Aerni Vice-President, Board of Directors   Casa de Paz was founded in 2014 by three women with a dream.  They dreamed of a day when Greater Cincinnati would have a residential facility where Latina women and children who had been scarred by domestic abuse could live temporarily, away from their abusers, and […]

I am not a secret agent. It just feels like it sometimes at Casa de Paz. We want to tell you about us and the work that we do—just not all of it (for the safety of the residents). We want to introduce you to the women and children who live in our Casa—but we […]

Kim and Alba are new staffers but familiar faces at Casa de Paz. Both women started volunteering in 2019 and were hired in late 2021 to assist residents and help the house run more smoothly. Alba, who is studying marketing management at Cincinnati State, learned of Casa de Paz as part of her scholarship from […]

On December 6, 2021, Father Eric Sundrup, Pastor of Bellarmine Parish, performed a Catholic house blessing in response to a request by Casa de Paz residents. Father Eric involved all residents, through scripture readings, prayers and the sprinkling of holy water in each room. As families proudly guided Father Eric through their temporary home and […]

On a cold February day, Karla sat in the dining room at Casa de Paz talking with Jennifer Linares, the Family Support Coordinator. She described the cascading emotions she felt washing over her on this, her final day as a Casa de Paz resident. Karla had come to Casa de Paz five months earlier with […]