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.

Remember the Scarlet Pesto I posted about a year ago? Well this recipe is from then and it is also included in my list of recipes which I added on New Year’s day, in order to remind myself that I should post these recipes. Chicken Kiev is a popular dish of boneless chicken breast …

Pickled vineyard shoots, also known as “ampelokorfades or ampelovlastara toursi” in Greek cuisine, are a traditional Mediterranean delicacy made from the young shoots or tendrils of grapevines.

Here we are again with another roundup of Creative Concoctions, with savoury recipes using olive oil. Thank you all of you for participating with your wonderful, creative recipes. Meenakshi, of Ponderings of a Working Mom, has made a healthier version of Dal (lentils) – (oriya ishtyle) using olive oil. In India food is usually cooked …

I have always found desserts with sponge cake exciting because there is so much you can do with it to meet your taste bud’s satisfaction. After making the sponge you can experiment in so many ways and with so many different ingredients and flavour. It’s been quite a long time since I last posted a …

This Greek Beetroot Dip recipe combines roasted beets with yoghurt, garlic and extra virgin olive oil. It can serve nicely in a buffet dinner or on your everyday dinner table.

A compilation of a lot of Greek and other easy to make recipes.

This Aromatic Kagianas is is a dish made with eggs, aromatic herbs, such as Kafkalithres (Mediterranean Hartwort), Myronia (chervil) and pasto (cured pork) from Lakonia.

I’ve been looking in my recipes file to find more easy recipes to post and, of course, I have a lot of pasta recipes which I have never posted as well as a lot of chicken recipes, as we don’t eat beef/veal, pork or lamb often but still have a few of them as well. …

The weather is very stubborn this year and the Spring weather seems like a shy girl, who doesn’t want to come out from her shell and is hiding away and is grumpy and bad tempered. The beaches are empty, it is windy and the temperatures are below normal for this time of the year. …

Today is Mother’s Day, so I would like to wish all the moms in the world “Happy Mother’s Day”! Οlive oil is by far the greatest exponent of monosaturated fat and base of the Mediterranean diet, which is regarded to be the exemplar of correct and healthy diet and a factor of longevity. Greece is …