In Cook & Eat Well this week Aysha and Manal showed us how to make Sudanese lamb and okra (and a chicken and okra variation) which we then enjoyed with rice and home-made "avocado salad" (like a guacamole) .

All the dishes were extremely tasty.

We hosted our second Community Iftari this year.

Below are some comments from the some of the people that came along, to make it another fantastic and memorable occasion.

Our weekly Cook and Eat Well sessions have been very well attended and great fun. It has been good learning different dishes from around the world - and also different cooking methods such as steaming, blanching and preserving.

Read on for more, including more pictures:

I am very excited to be part of our new CookRight Club every Wednesday morning. The aim of the cookery club is to bring together people from different cultures and communities together, and teach each other popular traditional dishes from around the world.

From Shazia, one of this year's student placements from Coventry University's Social Welfare and Community Studies degree:

Hi my name is Shazia, I am a student placement at FolesHillfields Vision Project.

We had a great 100th International Women's Day celebration event. Around 40 women and 12 children from a mix of cultures and backgrounds came together to enjoy a whole day of art activities, massage and mehndi. We also shared  stories, danced and had lots food and fun! The women also had an opportunity to contribute to our tree of inspirational women ... and it was truly inspiring and touching reading them.

We had a really lovely women's peace event today. A very diverse group of 41 women and about six children had a relaxed and friendly time together - we embroidered a brilliant peace patchwork and chatted and ate delicious food.

A good time was had by all. Uzma had this to say:

Had another great women's event. The first of a two part inter-cultural event, also part of Coventry Peace Festival 2010. Lots of good conversations, delicious food and a great start was made on our patchwork.

The next event is on Tuesday 9th November 12-3pm. Women only. Children welcome.

In open office (drop in every Wednesday 2-4pm) we had a Eid celebration. It was a great opportunity to enjoy some lovely food and mark the end of Ramadan.

At our regular drop-in Open House session (Wednesdays 2-4pm) we had an Eid celebration. It was a great opportunity to enjoy some lovely food and mark the end of Ramadan with people of different backgrounds and faiths.

There was a nice mix of people, from regulars to a group of new women that came to our women's pamper day the day before. We also had a lovely lady called Betty who, at 82 years old and having lived in Hillfields all her life, entertained us with stories of celebrations and history.