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.

Did I hear anyone saying that healthy food is bland and boring? Well, I hope to change your mind with this recipe of mine. When I went to the farmers’ market last week, I got some courgettes and was thinking of boiling them with carrots for a healthy salad. As I usually buy lots of …

Mahalebi is a cream we make in Cyprus like pudding. The traditional way of flavouring this cream is with rose water, rose syrup and orange blossom water. Back at home my mom served it with spoon sweets and a little syrup on top and my favourite would be with bitter orange spoon sweet. For a …

Two friends from Romania have passed these great Awards to me and I am truly honoured. Elena, of Bucataria Elenei, has passed this wonderful award. Thank you Elena. Alison, of Alison’s Trials, has passed the above award as well as this one. Thank you Alison. Both Awards go to all my blogging friends with love …

I am not really a fan of beef or veal and rarely cook it but I do like liver although I don’t cook that very often either, as it is high in cholesterol. I was craving liver and as it’s been a very long time since I last cooked red meat I decided to cook …

Louvi, as we call it in Cyprus, are the black eyed beans. Although the word “louvi” is ancient Greek from lovion, plural lovia (λόβιον, πλ. λόβια), in Greece this word is not used any more. Instead, they are called fassolia mavrommatika, which means black-eyed peas.

A healthy Mediterranean Salad with Tuna and lots of vegetables which is Mayonnaise free made with an olive oil dressing, which is full of flavour.

You’ve heard me talking about the Mediterranean Diet many times in my posts. For those of you who are not familiar with this diet, this is the modern nutritional recommendation, inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of Crete which expanded to the remaining parts of Greece and followed by most of the countries of Southern …

Soon after Easter I started watching my diet again but reading blogs all the day, there are some times I am really tempted to make some of the recipes I see. Being on diet doesn’t mean that you can’t eat a dessert once in a while or a snack. Instead of eating anything else in …

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses“ –Hippocrates, Greek Physician (460 BC – 370 BC) I’ve decided to focus more on healthy recipes again and especially on the Medieterranean Diet. Although I am not strictly …

This Chocolate Mocha Mars Cake is a rich chocolate cake with a mocha cream cheese filling and a chocolate – caramel ganache made with Mars Chocolates.