I've Been Tagged To Tell About Green Bean Salad with Greek Olives and Feta Cheese

It's just so completely exciting! I've been tagged for a meme by CookieCrumb, one of my favorite food bloggers. I remember when I first started reading the food blogs, about 6 months back, and people kept refering to a meme. I had to look it up. Turns out meme is some kind of biology word that means a self-replicating organism. In blog language, a meme is a fun kind of game where different bloggers tag each other to post some kind of fun rambling.

This time it's the 23 / 5 meme. Go to your 23rd post, find the 5th sentence, and then write something interesting about it on your blog.

Usually I am too busy worrying what to teach to a room full of 27 fourth graders to participate much in food blogging events, so this was my first real event, not just my first meme. I was immediately worried. Before I started my blog I had an e-mail list of people who would ask me, "Can I have this recipe?" and then I would put them on a list to get recipes from me every once in a while. When I had the idea of actually writing a blog, I transferred a bunch of those recipes over all on the same day. Since they were recipes pretty much without any real dialogue, I was pretty sure the 5th sentence was going to be pretty boring.

Therefore I decided to "bend the rules" just a teeny tiny bit. I decided that those recipes would not be counted as a post. (After all, they were just transfers. I wasn't actually blogging when I wrote them.) So I decided to find the fifth sentence from the 23rd post that I actually wrote for the blog. (Yeah, yeah, bending the rules on my very first event. That's me.)

Being just a tad anal, I have a small notebook that I keep by the computer. In my blog notebook I write down each post name, and also keep track of other important milestones in MY BLOG LIFE. (Like this one of getting tagged for the first time, and other equally fascinating topics like learning about Technorati tags.)

Referring to my blog notebook I determined that "Green Bean Salad with Greek Olives and Feta Cheese" was my "real" 23rd post. Scurry to the archives eagerly to see what the 5th sentence was. There were only 4 sentences introducing the post, so I guess the first sentence of the recipe directions has to be the 5th sentence. 

It said, "Break off ends of green beans and cut or break into 2 inch pieces." 

There you have it. My 23rd post, fifth sentence was about how to prepare green beans to be steamed. Sentences 1-4 were a little more interesting. I invented the green bean salad when I was in Chicago visiting my brother Rand. We were going to be eating it on a picnic at the Chicago Botanical Gardens, truly a wonderful place. The salad was outstanding, partly due to the fact that my brother is also quite a foodie and he turned me lose in his well stocked kitchen with some fresh green beans and a whole pantry and refrigerator of other delicious additions.

Now for the fun part.

I am going to tag:

1. Beth at Zen Foodism
2. The Mage at KitchenMage
3. Sweetnicks at Sweetnicks
4. Amy at BeautyJoyFood
5. Ana at Pumpkin Pie Bungalow

Here are the official Rules:
Delve into your blog archive.
Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. Ponder it for meaning, subtext or hidden agendas...
Tag five people to do the same.

I'm not sure what the blog ettiquette is now. Should I inform these people that they have been tagged? Maybe I'll wait a day or so and see if they discover it themselves.