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.

Here are some of my delicious salads, for every season, time and occasion. Salads make eating colorful, fresh foods easy and delicious.

If you have leftover rice and don’t know what to do with it, here is a quick and easy solution which can be served as a side dish. If you don’t want to eat rice the next day again, you can deep freeze it and use it whenever you like. I served this side …

Bougatsa, is the name of a specific Greek pastry, filled with custard, made with corn flour (starch) or semolina and sprinkled with icing sugar and cinnamon on top.

Revithosalates are Greek salads made with chickpeas. Chickpeas are one of my favourite legumes and I always cook them from scratch.

A Marbled Cake is a cake with a mottled appearance, that is the cake is given a streaked, marblelike appearance by mixing of dark chocolate and light batters.

Thank you all for your participation to the first Creative Concoctions Round-up and for the incredibly creative recipes sent in from foodies all over the world. To recap on what I have mentioned yesterday, first of all we have a new logo for the event which you can proudly display on your post for your …

Fassolada is considered to be the national dish of the Greeks because the Greeks survived those poor years eating dried legumes and vegetables. Meat was eaten rarely and only on special occasions. Even until early sixties, meat was eaten only on Sundays but after a few decades of prosperity we are back to “psorokostena” …

I am very excited to be posting the very first roundup of Creative Concoctions. Thank you all for your participation to the first Creative Concoctions Round-up and for the incredibly creative recipes sent in from foodies all over the world. As you may see, I have changed the logo of the event and from now …

This Coconut Red Lentil Soup – inspired by Heidi Swanson’s recipe from 101 Cookbooks – is truly magical as it is brimming with vibrant flavours and nourishing ingredients.

MyCityCuisine is a wiki project. Its goal is to help travelers discover the local food from around the world. Food has always been an integral part of the local culture so, naturally, tasting local food is often high on most traveler’s to-do lists. However, until now, there was no single comprehensive source providing this …