tagged again

[ritaxis]

I was tagged by personhead ocotillo_dawn  and that's the only reason I'm doing this.  It's that book sentence game again, this time with somewhat different instructions.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tag five people.

It's a tossup between the phone book (boring) and <i>The Vegetable Bible</i> which I believe actually belongs to Emma's friend Kelley but she left it behind when she moved back to the City.   This book is nothing but sidebars strewn decoratively around the page in vague reference to brilliantly lit and probably heavily oiled gorgeous vegetables largely undergoing some kind of processing.

 Pull off the skin from top to bottom with a kitchen knife.  Cut the bell peppers in half lengthwise, taking care not to squash the soft flesh.  Remove the stalk, including the base, from the bell pepper halves, and cut out and discard the core and seeds, leaving just the flesh.  The prepared bell pepper halves may now be halved again, quartered, or cut into strips or cubes of any desired size, according to the recipe.

Signs of freshness in a bell pepper are smooth, firm skin and a crisp, green stalk.  At one time bell peppers were often broken off the plant, but they are now usually cut in order to avoid damaging them.

It's not a game if you don't tag people, so here are the personheads I am tagging (chosen by the expedience of their having posted today and by me seeing their names right now: there is no real criterion):
birdsedge 
thomasyan 
deborahjross 
fivemack 
pnkrokhockeymom 

That last one?  You have a really hard personhead name to spell correctly, pnkrokhockeymom .

Comments

[ocotillo-dawn.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'd never seen this meme before. Though that shouldn't be surprising, I'm so out of the loop on most things in life, why should LJ be any different?
Usually avoid those I do see, though when it's about books, I kind of like learning what other thoughtful people keep next to them, so I figured I oughta do it.

Cookbook, awesome... :D

(In response to other post)

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

The Russian Steam Navigation Company began operations in 1857 with a commission from Tsar Alexander II, running routes across the Black Sea to the major Caucasus ports. In 1885 the Transcaucasus railway was opened, joining Baku on the Caspian with Batumi on the Black Sea. Travel no longer required bouncing along in a horse-driven convoy, swatting flies and peeking at the mountains through a phalanx of Cossack or Kabardian outriders.