What is for lunch?

You would ask yourself if you were headed to the village around 2pm.  Typically women are given the responsibility to maintain and harvest their gardens.  However, there are exceptions depending on the culture of that particular village.  Quite often if they feel like they have an inside track on getting the spirits to bless their gardening work, the men may get involved as well.  The kids always pitch in and make the work load easier.  Usually the women will rise early and go to work in their gardens…while the temperature is cool and will return before noon to clean and prep the food for lunch.  Our kids are helping prep this meal…

Typically they will collect “greens” which they harvest a long the path or in their gardens.  They will mix bananas, sweet potatoes or manioc with it and usually if they can afford it will either add some fish or meat to it to give it a little more taste.  Here is the pot of stew for our meal that day.  Can you see the three little fish on the top.