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.

As this month is the month of Halloween, Baking Partners chose as there theme to bake Cupcakes or Muffins with pumpkin. We had three choices but I chose to make Pumpkin chocolate chips Muffins from Joy of baking which in its turn was also adapted from Baking from the Heart, a collaborative cookbook with Michael J Rosen, a recipe suggested by Reshmi …

What do you do when you have a huge butternut squash around 8 kilos? One of the recipes I made was this Savoury Cornmeal Crumble with Butternut Squash, Spinach and Feta is healthy and delicious!

Pollo alla cacciatora is a classic Italian dish made with chicken braised in a tomato-based sauce with onions, garlic, and various herbs, such as basil and oregano.

Hello from Athens again. I’ve been trying to write a blog post when I was in Assini for over a week unsuccessfully and I haven’t been visiting my friends’ blogs for quite a long time. Please forgive me but there are a lot of distractions in the countryside. You can read a post on our …

Mpamies me Mpakaliaro is Greek stewed okra dish cooked on the stove top until tender and then the fish is cooked in the stew.

A delicious Peach Pavlova, which is guilt free, with less calories, as Greek yoghurt is mixed in the whipped cream, making it lighter but even more delicious! The meringues or mpezedes, as we call them in Greek, which were flavoured with citrus essence, are very aromatic and melt in your mouth, making this dessert exceptional.

Although in my last post I mentioned that it would take a long time to have an internet connection, things turned out much easier than what we were originally expecting and got the telephone line installed a couple of weeks after we arrived. It was a real odyssey to relocate and three weeks later most …

This delicious chicken risotto with tarragon, combines creamy risotto with flavourful chicken with a Greek twist, for a satisfying meal.

Can you believe it has been five years since I started blogging? I myself find it hard to believe that I made it so far. I am an Aries and Aries tend to get bored very easily but although there are times that I do feel tired of blogging, I seem to be hooked with …

Watermelon Pudding is a gluten free dessert, made with leftover watermelon fruit preserve syrup which is thickened with rice flour.