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.

Rolo me patates is made with ground meat in which we addd hard boiled eggs and make a roulade, like a meat loaf, and bake it in the oven. In Cyprus we enclose the roulade with caul fat, which melts as it is being baked in the oven and gives a wonderful flavour to the …

An easy classic Vanilla Apple Cake made from scratch with fresh apples, topped with caramel sauce and pecans.

I was looking for grilled chicken breasts recipes and found this teriyaki chicken recipe. I didn’t know what teriyaki is, so I google searched further and read a few other recipes as well. I did not have all the ingredients, so I decided to go along with what ingredients I had at home. Instead …

Making phyllo from scratch may be a little bit intimidating, not that it’s difficult to make. However, here is Greece we have a big variety of phyllos, each one different in taste and texture. Apart from the thin phyllo everyone knows which is used to make baklavas, we have “horiatiko phyllo” which is a phyllo …

Lamb is the star of the Easter lunch and we want to offer you an exquisite recipe from Tuscany, a classic. How to prepare the leg of lamb in milk.

In Greece we usually make a no bake, easy cheesecake and for those of you who have never tried this baked version, I strongly recommend it. If you cannot find pecans, you can substitute them with walnuts. A mistake which is usually made by novice bakers is that they add too much butter to the …

It’s been a while now that I wanted to sign up in the Adopt a Blogger program. I had seen some of my friends blogging about their adopting a new blogger but at the time I had found my way around the blogging world. It wasn’t easy at the beginning but I managed by myself, …

Pilafi Pourgouri (bulgur wheat pilaf), like most Cypriot recipes, are considered to be a “poor man’s dish” as people were poor and made delicious dishes out of simple ingredients they had in their pantry. It is not only cheap and easy to make but it is also a healthy meal.

A colorful and savoury Festive Cypriot rice pilaf with vermicelli pasta, pine nuts and raisins.

Tyropita Kourou is a cheese pie made with a type of phyllo which I would describe somewhat like tart dough.