My cookbook is here! 
Welcome!
Hey there, I’m Stella Drivas and my love of cooking easy, delicious, Greek foods and healthy desserts has led me here, recipe creation at Hungry Happens.
My ethos is: Besides preparing and eating a delicious meal that brings you significant satisfaction, you need to love your life (most of the time) so it can love you back. Appreciation and gratitude in life is key.
Speaking of which, I’m beyond grateful for all of you and your shared passion of cooking and creating good-for-you meals and recipes! Without you, I wouldn’t being doing this job – which is my dream job!
Simple recipes for healthy people
The most profound impact on my eating habits comes from my mother and grandmother. They instilled in me two lifetimes of traditional Mediterranean food culture. I’m constantly asking myself, would my Yiayia eat this? I also grew up in the restaurant business – my father owning a diner all of my life – I was surrounded by food!
Since I am a mother of two, I also ask myself, would my children eat this? When you have a family, it’s so hard to please everyone. I try to take that into consideration by creating straightforward, fast, and tasty recipes that most everyone prefers.
My goal is to make cooking healthy and delicious completely attainable. I absolutely love it when I find a recipe where I already have all of the ingredients and so I apply that to my blog and my cookbook: Hungry Happens Mediterranean 📚
Blast some music and dance around the kitchen
Yes, I do this and highly recommend it. If the activity is fun and amusing, you’ll go back and do it again and again. I find cooking to be very therapeutic, pleasurable, and self-fulfilling. Try to get your partner and kids involved with the process, and the time will fly by.
Why love your life?
The best places to find my daily posts are on my social media channels where I share my recipes with over 12 million friends and followers across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and Threads. Please follow along for every day inspiration! We also have a major Email Newsletter following of over 200,000 subscribers, who receive my recipes in their email inboxes every week!
When I started creating recipe videos in late 2020, I realized I needed a catchphrase of sorts. This is how I feel when I’m consuming my dish – loving every bite and thus my life in that moment. I originally created Hungry Happens back in 2013, when it was my Instagram baby. Through many ups and downs, I am dedicated to sharing my recipes and my family’s recipes with everyone.
It brings me so much fulfillment when people send me messages, pics, or write comments that they made a dish and loved it or their family devoured it. It’s a beautiful thing. This is truly my passion and brings so much happiness to me and my family.
Thank you so much for your support here on the website, trying the recipes out, leaving comments and rating each dish – it does not go unnoticed and is very much appreciated! Now Love Your Life!
