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.

Can this gâteau get any more decadent? Well, never say no, because you never know. I was planning to make this gâteau or at least a similar one, last year but when I bought the chestnuts to make it I sprained my ankle so I never got to make it. When I bought the chestnuts …

Dulce de Leche (pronounced DUHL-sey duh LEY-chey) is a confection from Latin America that consists of heating sweetened milk until it caramelizes and becomes all rich and flavoursome! I have been seeing some recipes with Dulce de Leche but I didn’t know what it was until recently when one of you posted a detailed post …

After Boiling and peeling the chestnuts, you can use them in savory or sweet dishes. In order to make a chestnut puree it is best to boil them in water, milk or both, depending on the recipe you want to make, until they become soft. You then mash them the same way you …

Spartiatika Loukanika are the famous Spartan Sausages, which are flavoured with orange and spices.

I have tried nearly all type of Greek and Cypriot sausages and not that I don’t like them all but these ones with orange flavour are my favourite.

These Bitter Chocolate spiced carob cookies were made with bitter chocolate, carob syrup and ginger. They have a chocolatey taste due to the chocolate but also due to the carob syrup.

When making these roulades I kept singing the nursery rhyme “Oranges and Lemons say the Bells of St. Clement’s” which we used to play in England at primary school:

These Chocolate brownies, are one of America’s favorite baked treats. These homemade brownies are easy to make, rich in chocolate flavour, they are crunchy on the outside and fudgy in the middle.

Bombari is a Cypriot traditional recipe which resembles like sausage but it is made with ground pork and rice and is actually a cooked meal.

I had not planned what to cook today and was not really in a mood of cooking anything complicated. I had thawed some chicken breasts from the evening and by the time I finished this morning’s post it was almost noon. I decided to make a pasta dish and improvised with what I had in …

I have been trying unsuccessfully, to post a recipe for the past few days but unfortunately I cannot pretend that nothing has happened and still is happening here in Athens and other parts of Greece. Most of you probably are aware that after the killing of a teenage boy by a policeman last Saturday, …