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.

The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens.

Tiganopsomo, which means fried bread is very easy to make. All you need is any kind of yeasted bread dough, which is fried in olive oil. Some times it is filled with cheese, such as feta or any other hard Greek cheese but when it is not filled, it can turn into a dessert by sprinkling some honey or icing sugar and cinnamon on top.

Mangoes are not cultivated in Greece but we only have imported ones and only in the past years they have started to become more popular. Since they are imported they are much more expensive than the fruit produced locally, which can be found in abundance, they are delicious and of course much cheaper. As I …

Tyropita me Maratho means cheese pie with wild fennel. This is a traditional cheese pie, which my mother in law used to make with feta cheese and fennel.

This no machine ice cream is based this recipe on an ice cream I made last year. It was mere coincidence that I made Dulce de Leche a few days before as well as the Cherry Compote.

Thank you to all of you who’ve written to me over the past few days, either at the blog, facebook or by private e-mail, to express your sympathy and kind thoughts. I am really grateful to have such good friends which I met through the internet. Life, however, does go and time is the best …

Lisa, our Siamese cat died today. She was 12 years old.

Horiatiko phyllo which is the Greek equivalent to Provençal Pastry is one of many types of phyllo used in Greek cuisine to make pastry.

Wow, these past few days were like hell. First of all my cat is not well. She has not been eating lately and we took her to the vet. He ran some tests and she had a tumour, which was removed. Thank God it did not spread to other organs. However, she also has some …

Millefeuille, also known as a Napoleon, is a classic French pastry that consists of multiple layers of thin, flaky puff pastry alternating with creamy fillings, usually pastry cream or whipped cream.