This is a site i designed for friends who run a very lively bar in the Calis Beach resort of South-West Turkey (also known as the Turqoiuse coast or the Turkish Riviera).
It is powered by Wordpress and uses PhpBB for it’s forums.
The theme used is one of my own design, inspired mainly by the colours in the sunset masthead.
I must be the only person who went to Singapore, walked past “Raffles Hotel”:http://www.raffleshotel.com/ (on numerous occasions) and never popped in for a Singapore Sling.
*Recipe*
30ml Gin
15 ml Cherry Brandy
120 ml Pineapple Juice
15 ml Lime Juice
7.5 ml Cointreau
7.5 ml Dom Benedictine
10 ml Grenadine
A Dash of Angostura Bitters
*Method*
Shake with ice. Strain into an ice filled collins glass. Garnish with cherry and slice of pineapple.
Cribbage is usually played by 2 players and uses a standard 52 card deck.
Each round in the game is scored on a cribbage board. !/images/cribboard.jpg(Cribbage board)!
The first player to get 121 points, there and back again on the board, wins.
*The Deal*
Cut the cards, the player with the lowest card deals six cards each, the other player goes first. The deal alternates throughout the game.
*The Discard*
Each player throws away two of their cards leaving them with four cards each. The four cards which have been thrown away form the crib, any card combinations in the crib will count for the dealer.
The player that did not deal will try to throw away the most useless cards and keep the cards which give him the best scoring combinations.
The dealer may want to throw away the cards that give the best scoring combinations, because they will be able to count them later. This will make more sense after a few rounds.
No-one is allowed to look at the crib yet.
*Start Card*
The player who did not deal cuts the pack and then turns over the top card, this card is the Start Card.
If it is a Jack this player immediately says “two for his heels” and gets two points. Then it his turn.
*The Play*
Take it in turns to lay a card from your hand and say what all the cards that have been laid add up to. Keep your hands seperate, you will need them later.
Each person must continue to play if they can lay cards that don’t make the total score over 31. If you can’t go you must say “Go” and the other player will lay as many of their cards as they can until they are as close as they can get to 31.
When you’ve reached 31, or as close to it as you can get, you start again from zero. Turn over the cards that you played in the last round so they are face down. If one player has been out they are back in when the count begins again. You do this until all the cards have been laid even if it means that one player has to do a round on their own.
In any round a player that makes the total fifteen gets 1 point, the player that lays the last card in any round gets 1 point “for the Go” or 2 points if they manage to hit 31 exactly.
As you lay the cards you can also get points for making pairs and runs. So player one lays a Queen of Diamonds, player two a Queen of Hearts and gets 2 points for the pair, player one then lays Queen of Spades and gets 6 points and player two lays Queen of Clubs and gets 12 points.
Or, player one lays a five, player two a six, player one a seven and gets 3 points for the run. If player two then lays an eight he gets four for the run.
*The Show*
The player that did not deal lays his cards in front if him and counts up the scores that come from those four cards and the Starter, making a five card hand. You can use every card as many times as you want in a different combination of scoring hands, so three queens count as three different pairs. Then the dealer counts his own hand and then the dealer turns over the crib and counts that, so the dealer will generally score the most and it is important to deal alternately.
*Scoring in the show*
In the show you score for your cards as follows, picture cards counted as ten, aces are one.
If the Starter is not a Jack and you have the Jack of the same suit you get “One for his Nob”, 1 point.
Fifteen, two cards that make fifteen, 2 points
Pair, two cards of the same rank, 2 points
Pair Royal, three cards of the same rank, 6 points
Double pair royal, four cards of the same rank 12 points
Run, three or more cards in ranking order, 1 point per card
Flush, three or more cards of the same suit in one hand, 1 point per card.
*Muggins*
If your opponent notices that you have missed a score that you might have taken he calls “Muggins” and takes that score for himself, so it’s important to concentrate when you are scoring, and when you’re not.
After the Show you deal again and play another round. You keep playing until someone has scored 121, there and back again on the Cribbage board.
*Ingredients*
_Serves 2-3_
# 6 large eggs
# 1 medium onion
# 1 pound skinned chopped tomatoes (or 1 tin chopped tomatoes)
# 4 ounces mild green chilli peppers
# 1 ounce margarine (it must be margarine, oil doesn’t work so well)
# 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
# salt for seasoning
# water
*Cooking Instructions*
Peel and finely slice the onion. Remove most (but not all) of the seeds from the chillis then slice them into rings, keeping as many seeds as required for hotness.
Melt the margarine into a large frying pan then add the onions & chillis. Sweat the onions until they become soft. Add the tomatoes and allow to reduce (at a fairly high heat) for approx 10 minutes. While the tomatoes are doing, beat the eggs with the salt and pepper.
When there is almost no liquid left in the tomatoes, add a small quantity of water and the beaten eggs. Stir the mixture until the eggs have all firmed up and the dish is ready to serve with crusty bread and a salad garnish.
