Here's a cool Facebook story for you. Through someone else's Facebook page I came across Samit. He was one of my older brother, Kevin's, best friends in school in Nigeria. Samit used to come to our house a lot when I was in elementary school. Once he stayed with us for a few weeks and it was during his visit that I quit using butter on bread.
You see, between Kevin and Samit's growing-boy-appetites my mom was making like 20 sandwiches each day for our school lunches. One day that time when Samit was staying with us it dawned on her that we could make our own lunches. Being that us Boer kids like to be efficient, I decided to skip the step of putting butter on my bread and to this day I barely ever use butter!
Anyway, so through Facebook I connected with Samit, we found out we both live in the greater Seattle area and we made a plan for him and his wife to come over for dinner. We hadn't seen each other since the summer of 1988!!
Throughout the evening he kept commenting on how weird it was to see me as an adult b/c in his mind I looked like Asia.
Because of the Nigeria connection we figured we ought to have Nigerian food for dinner. Samit hadn't had Nigerian food in a long time so he was excited. Here's Andy making the pounded yam (which is actually made from yam flakes, but tastes pretty legit) (and no, Nigerian yam is NOTHING like what Americans call yam).
Good times
A closeup of the Nigerian food. Pounded yam eaten with hands and delicious stew. SO flavorful! Andy makes it really well considering he was only in Nigeria once for two weeks.
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