Ivy Liacopoulou

Ivy Liacopoulou grew up in Limassol, Cyprus, a beautiful island in the eastern Mediterranean, where her passion for cooking began as a child, helping her mother in the kitchen. Ivy belongs to a new generation of home cooks who loves to experiment and create new recipes of her own. She is the author of two cookbooks and she owns and manages Cooking Classes, in Nafplio, Peloponnese.

I’ve been working on my new cookbook, which will contain healthy Greek recipes, based on the Mediterranean diet, as well as lots of tips about healthy eating. The recipes are those which I cooked when I was on diet, two years ago and lost 18 kilos. Most of them have not been published but to …

Kaikanas is a very simple Cypriot dessert which is something between a sweet omelette or a pancake or crepe.

Green beans are cheap this time of the year, so I practically cook them once a week. When we came back from the farmers’ market, I cleaned, washed and dried them and the following day they were ready to be cooked. When buying them, I intended to cook them yiahni, as is the usual Greek …

Good morning and wishing you a happy weekend and a wonderful summer! The farmers’ market in Nafplion is twice a week, every Wednesday and Saturday. Now that we are just the two of us living here in Assini, we don’t really need to visit the farmers’ market twice a week but I enjoy visiting Nafplion …

A twist to the classic Greek dessert Galaktoboureko made with ewe’s butter and lemon curd. As I have said in a previous post, Galaktoboureko or galaktomboureko is one of my favourite Greek desserts. There is a place in Southern Attica, specifically in Vari, called Vlahika, where galaktoboureko is famous because it is made with ewe’s milk and …

Limoncello is an Italian alcoholic drink made from the peels or zest of unwaxed lemons, which are steeped in a neutral alcohol, until the essential oils from the lemons is released. The alcohol is then mixed with a simple syrup. It is usually served as an apéritif or after-dinner drink, as it is considered a digestif drink.

Eclairs are made with Choux Pastry and are filled with Pastry Cream or other filling and are topped with icing or chocolate ganache.

Tourkakia is one of the traditional delicacies we first ate in Sparta. Fragrant offal from goat or lamb wrapped in caul fat and grill over charcoal.

Christos Anesti to all the Orthodox readers of my blog and Chronia Polla to George or Georgia celebrating their name day today. Today is the name day of my eldest son, George and to celebrate, I made this American Cheesecake, which I have been making for many years. As I like making something different each time …

These vegan choco-strawberries are very easy to make and taste amazing. They can be dipped in any kind of chocolate but I made them during the fasting period, using a certain brand of dark chocolate which is vegan.