The Odd Fork

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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The Odd Fork loves all vegetables. It believes it can pinch them and add them both to savory and sweet treats. Since in the Odd Fork's country it's summer as well, a sweet beet ice cream paired with spicy ginger and dark chocolate, seemed perfect for the occasion! For about a quart of ice cream, the odd fork used: - 2 beetroots -...

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