The Original Pancakes Continued: How to Eat the Pancakes!

Dominique continues as follows: once the pancakes are made the ‘enjoying’ can begin. On weekdays we usually eat the pancakes with brown sugar or jam or marmalade. Here are a few other combinations you might want to try….

Pancake Mikado: Take 2 pancakes and put some vanilla ice-cream between them, cover the pancakes with hot chocolate sauce (to make the sauce, heat cream or milk and let some dark chocolate melt in it).

Crepe Suzette: (Kind of, the easy way!)
Take two pancakes and put some vanilla ice-cream between them, cover the pancakes with preheated Grand Marnier and set them on fire / flambé them.

Pancake Normandy:
Peel an apple and cut it into in thin slices. Take a bigger pan (24 cm) and pour in 2 sauce-ladles of batter. The minute the batter is in the pan you arrange the apple on the pancake / crepe. Let it cook until the batter is not liquid anymore and turn over.
Arrange the pancake on a plate, put some vanilla ice-cream on top, pour over some preheated Calvados and set it on fire / flambé it. Happy Candlemas!

Cocktail of the Month: Love Birds

So, after all these great pancake ideas (and once again many, many thanks Dominique!) it’s time for a romantic cocktail. This one that we found online might fit the bill. The ingredients go as follows: ½ oz vodka, 2 oz ’sweet and sour mix’ (you can make this mix with fresh lemon juice and sugar syrup to taste), 1 dash dark rum and ½ oz grenadine. Oh, and if you are getting concerned about trying to use ‘oz’ as a unit of measurement don’t worry. Mix and match and ολα will be καλά.

The 2012 Puzzle Competition Leader Board

Trevor and Linda Sanders and Jack and Wyn Tomlinson get the ball rolling with their first entries for the 2012 puzzle challenge. As we reported in January, Trevor and Linda came first in the 2011 competition, but Jack and Wyn came a close second. Congratulations! Anyway, back to this year. Full marks to both (i.e. 5 for the crossword and 2 for the logic problem) for the puzzles, but no typo points because apparently there wasn’t one to be found on either of the puzzle pages (now that’s got to be a first!). So both teams start on the magic number 7. Our guidelines go as follows : submit your entries to us by the copy deadline and each month we will publish a tally of the top scorers. At the end of the year, the top scoring contestant(s) will win a meal for two at a restaurant in Rethymnon courtesy of the Bugle. Runners up will also win prizes - and these will be really good, (honest!) so even if you know you can’t catch up with the leaders, it is still worth entering. Anyone who manages to do the logic problem along with the crossword is going to get bonus points and whoever spots the typing error of the month on the puzzle pages (because, try as we might to proof read there generally is a typo) may also win points. Alternative answers to the puzzles that make more sense than the ones we have given might also be accepted, depending on how we feel. Keep those entries coming in!

Thanks to John Larsen who gives us this quote for February:
"As a single footstep will not make a pathway on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again."
Henry David Thoreau

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