The Odd Fork

This chocolate tart is like no other! The marriage of chocolate and beer may seem strange, but it is absolutely successful when the right kind of beer is used. The Odd Fork used for this a Corfu beer with the poetic name "Ionian Epos" (epos means saga in Greek) ! A Belgian Ale type beer, made by the Corfu Microbrewery especially for winter time!...

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The Odd Fork loves all kinds of soups, especially these nice velouté soups with their creamy, smooth, almost velvet texture... absolutely yummy! Winter means hot soup, period! So the Odd Fork created -of course- a strange one; The traditional French onion soup in its velouté version flavored with... Greek mountain tea! Greek mountain dried tea has a delicate flower note and even if...

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The Odd Fork is not much of a big meat lover. However, today it decided to pinch meat. An aromatic pork roll with roasted cauliflower which can be eaten on Sundays or even on Christmas time, as it is a special meal indeed! It is of course obvious that a good piece of pork meat (pork tenderloin is ideal), is the base for...

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Winter is on its way, so the Odd Fork starts to crave warm, comfort food. Homemade healthy food with seasonal vegetables, herbs and spices and sometimes, fish or meat. In the Odd's Fork kitchen, winter asks for cabbage! It is easy to find, cheap to buy and very nutritious. It is delicious eaten raw in salads but it works also very well in...

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Lentils can be so versatile. They are ideal all year round since they make excellent salads in the summer days, but they work great in all kind of soups and stews as well, so what better than a nice, hot lentil stew to warm you up in winter time! The combination of red lentils, buckwheat and fresh spinach together with fresh dill and...

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Do you keep beer bottles in your fridge? The Odd Fork surely does, as it is a big beer lover! So when it doesn't drink all the beers -a thing that rarely happens- it cooks with beer! Today, the Odd Fork used a Greek beer with a sweet, caramel character and the result was a fantastic beer cake. Oh, it is vegan as...

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There are times that the Odd Fork tries to keep a balanced diet. It pinches snacks which are low in fat and often gluten-free while at the same time are nutritious, rich in protein and of course tasty! The cookies in the photo above, are another example that "less is more". They have everything you want from a cookie: Great taste, excellent aroma,...

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Trying to keep a healthy and gluten free diet for a period of time, the Odd Fork cooked many times with quinoa, buckwheat and several superfood grains, it hadn't tried millet though. When it came across a small pack of millet in a food store one day, it decided to give it a try. The buy was successful, as millet was cheaper than...

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The Odd Fork got the inspiration for this recipe from the Greek traditional dish "Gioubetsi" which is made with veal, beef or even chicken and sometimes seafood. It is made in a pot on the kitchen stove where it boils with tomato paste and when the meat is tender, it is transferred in a baking casserole and with the addition of short pasta...

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Isn't Halloween a great time of year? The Odd Fork loves horror stories, masked parties and of course, Halloween recipes! Since there was enough pumpkin left from this pumpkin salad, the Odd Fork made some easy, yummy sweet pumpkin treats to satisfy the little Forks which will come knocking at the door and ask the traditional "Treat or Treat?" 🎃 The spices in...

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The Odd Fork continues its tribute to chestnuts! These sweet babes above are perfect for breakfast with coffee or hot chocolate and for a late afternoon snack also, with a shot of liqueur. For the pastry: - 1 and 3/4 cup all purpose flour - a package of active dry yeast (about 7 g) - 60 ml lukewarm milk - 1/3 cup sugar -...

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Chestnuts bring Christmas to mind, however October is the month for them! So the Odd Fork came across some lovely chestnuts in the flea market and the result was an unusual, yet absolutely yummy vegetarian pizza! For the pizza crust: - 250 grams plain flour - 3/4 tsp salt - half a cube of fresh, bread yeast - 1 tbsp sugar - 1/2...

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The Odd Fork has many food blogger friends and one of them is Penelope. She cooks with imagination, using leftovers and healthy, mediterranean ingredients and she always creates new, tasty recipes! So when the Odd Fork came across these tahini mini breads, it made its own version using its favorite wholemeal Greek tahini (tahini = sesame paste) and spices! Ingredients: - 4 Tbsp...

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The Odd Fork likes all legumes. Lately, it has an obsession with lentils. They are cheap, easy to prepare and like all legumes, packed with protein and all the good stuff. Greek lentil stew is a traditional winter dish, the Odd Fork though made its own version with the addition of carrots, paprika and wild, Greek oregano and loved it! To serve two...

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The Odd Fork hates to stay indoors for a long period of time. It likes to walk around, to pinch and discover new tastes and new things in general. But when due to bad weather it stays home, it usually spends its time cooking! So, today's recipe was made on a rainy day with whatever was left on the fridge, since the Odd...

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One day (fading to night), when the Odd Fork walked through dark forests and strange, secret gardens, it came across this pumpkin: And because it immediately realized that the pumpkin was enchanted, with great care not to awake the malicious forest spirit, the Odd Fork cut it and brought it home! When it cut it with a knife in the middle, the magical aromas...

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Every time the Odd Fork pinches something edible, it wonders what could be the strangest thing to make with it? Besides, it wouldn't be odd if it thought any different! Cucumber is by far the most refreshing vegetable, usually eaten raw in salads. Therefore, the Odd Fork thought to experiment by trying to cook maybe the only vegetable which needs no cooking. But it...

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The Odd Fork hates programs. It likes to be spontaneous and when it comes to cooking, the result of mixing leftovers with no recipe just being struck by inspiration, has often been a success! The sweet pie above tasted -thanks to the spices, like Greek grape must cookies, a.k.a. moustokouloura. This big "cookie" though, is stuffed with a delicious sweet zucchini - raisin mixture,...

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The Odd Fork was once a little fork and not so odd yet. At the time it used to pinch mom's food, as all little beings do. It's favorite mom's meal were baked stuffed vegetables, like tomatoes, green peppers and zucchinis. The little fork just loved the tender, cooked rice with the flavors of summer vegetables and aromatic herbs like basil or spearmint....

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Greek summer surely brings several good things in mind; Blue sky, sandy beaches, sunlight, romantic sunsets and of course, amazing food and drinks! Summer without seafood and ouzo is just The Thing That Should Not Be, for both Greeks and visitors. The Odd Fork, odd as it is, stepped out of tradition making with the traditional Greek ouzo an unconventional cocktail. Since its recipe...

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  The Odd Fork loves to pinch frozen cocktails, especially during summer. Making cocktails is like making a food recipe. Mixing fruit juices with spirits, syrups, ice cream, herbs and spices is easy, is fun and creative at the same time! When the Odd Fork visits its favorite Greek island, a.k.a. Corfu, it never misses the chance to drink the local Corfiot Ginger...

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The Odd's Fork summer tribute to pasta ends with this recipe. However, it ends the right way! How is this? With a pasta dish containing very few ingredients while at the same time, it has everything (like they say, less is more)! Meaning it is tasty, lowcal, vegan, quick and easy to prepare, low in cost, mediterranean and suitable for the summer season....

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The Odd Fork goes vegan, lowcal and gluten free today! After many pinches, it turned out that chickpea pasta is the No1 gluten free option for tasty, nutritious pasta meals. An avocado pesto chickpea pasta was the first successful recipe that turned the Odd Fork into a chickpea pasta fan! So for the above vegan pasta recipe, the Odd Fork used a medium...

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The Odd Fork does not stick to food categories, nutrition plans, food trends etc .; It tries, as much as possible, to pinch everything! So, when it discovered in an organic store chickpea flour pasta, it thought to give it a try. For a simple first recipe in order to taste more the genuine flavor of the main ingredient (the chickpea pasta), and...

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They say it's an exaggeration to eat pasta with bread. But if you like to do that, don't feel anymore strange or odd because the Odd Fork presents today this recipe especially for you! Fresh ravioli here is served with a rich -vegetarian however- milky sauce with whole grain bread, walnuts and parmesan cheese. The key ingredient though, is fresh sage and it...

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The Odd Fork found some forgotten goji berries in its kitchen and trying to avoid making the usual cookie or cake recipes with them, it decided to make a pasta dish -what else- which in the cooking process turned out a lot like the beloved Greek Pastitsio -only vegetarian and healthier! If you also wish to try it, you ‘ll need: For the...

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Sticking to pasta recipes, the Odd Fork pinches pasta like there's no tomorrow! However, the Odd's Fork pasta recipes may be odd but they 're tasty and healthy as well! There was half a packet of whole wheat penne pasta left from the previous post's recipe, so when the Odd Fork also discovered in its kitchen a can of smoked tuna in olive...

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The Odd Fork continues with joy its tribute to pasta and today it will pinch a light, summer pasta salad. In the country where the fork is located, bread, grapes and cheese is a common quick snack, especially in the summer. So, the Odd Fork came up the idea of making a salad using penne pasta instead of bread. It preferred to use...

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The Odd Fork when not busy pinching strange, tasty foods, likes to dive in beer! Beer is its favorite superdrink and after a good beer-bath, the Odd Fork is always ready to cook nice, unusual dishes! When the Odd Fork visits its favorite island, the amazing Corfu, washes itself in the lovely local Corfu Beer! And today, using the ultimate summer beer Corfu...

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The Odd Fork celebrates its online success, introducing a theme. The theme of the blog for a series of posts, is going to be pasta. Pasta is tasty, found everywhere to buy at a low cost, easy to cook and perhaps the most versatile dish. That explains why pasta lovers are countless and the reason that pasta recipes come in thousands. A simple...

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The Odd Fork has an often sweet tooth, so it pinches cookies! Cookies which are easy to make and at the same time full of good, nutritious stuff. Another good thing is that they come in various flavors! For this unusual -but very aromatic chocolate option, the Odd Fork used: - a jar of good quality peanut butter, made of 100% peanuts (220...

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The Odd Fork pinches everything and today it pinches lovely chocolate quinoa breakfast cookies which are sugar free, oil free, lactose free, gluten free... But definitely yummy! If you want to pinch these cookies too with your morning coffee, you 'll need: - 1/3 cup quinoa - a handful of black raisins - a ripe banana mashed well with a fork - zest...

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Vegan cooking can be so creative, especially when it comes to pastry making. The Odd Fork wanted to pinch its green broccoli in a sweet and crunchy recipe, so it created these vegan green cookies with raw broccoli florets, chopped Greek pistachio, lemon, Greek mastic liqueur and -of course- Greek olive oil. For about 60 small cookies, it used: - a medium sized...

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The Odd Fork found itself with enough fresh broccoli, so it decided to make a healthy, simple, cheap -but still odd, broccoli sorbet! For about a quart of sorbet: - a medium sized broccoli - a cup of water (use the water the broccoli boiled into) - a cup of sugar - juice of a lemon - the zest of half a lemon...

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