During this time of year, most families in our region are going to farm. Ploughing, weeding, sowing, weeding, weeding, more weeding. Most folks walk several miles to reach their farms where they will work all day. The women will bring cooking pots and ingredients and fix their lunch right out in the farm.
After sowing corn for a few hours, I joined my friends for some gɔba – boiled bean cakes – made of black-eyed peas flour and bambara beans flour. You then dip them in oil as you eat them.
I think farm food is a bit like camping food. When you’ve been out in the hot sun for hours just about anything tastes amazing. These boiled bean cakes were the best thing ever.