March 8, 2005
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
12:45 PM (Pacific)
1. Grab the nearest book 2. Open the book to page 123 3. Find the fifth sentence 4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog, 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 grab what is closest!
Okee dokee...got this from Carol's blog. :)
The nearest book to me is a paperback Roget's Thesaurus. I brought it from Virginia in 1985 and had had it for years before then. I'm looking at it now and realizing that the entire top section of it is missing...it's been shedding pages for years, now it's shedding entire sections, but the "meat" is still intact.
lol! The first five sentences are gibberish, out of context. It's the last lines of the "shortness" category.
Let's go for the next-nearest book.
Well worth exploiting, too, are the virtues of fruit--in either cup, compote, salad or sherbet form--as a "lightener" during as well as after a big meal.
If fruits lack flavor, serve them or prepare them with candied peels, ginger, zest or spices; or add a little lemon or lime juice to cooked fruits and fruit fillings. Vary the flavor of a particular fruit by steeping it in the juices of other fruits or in wine, or by blending it with others in a puree.
lol! From Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker
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