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Snapshots from my week

August 22, 2014 By Kerry Cooks 7 Comments

Happy Friday everyone! It’s a bank holiday weekend – woohoo! The last one until Christmas (boo)!

This past weekend was a pretty quiet one – I got lots of stuff done around the house and garden as planned! I was also seized with inspiration while watching Barefoot Contessa (omg, the most amazing cookery show ever) and rushed to the kitchen to trial a new method of baking tall chocolate chip cookies – and it worked! I’ll share the new method with you soon!

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I also made some more homemade brown sugar this weekend – have you tried making your own yet? It’s so easy and really helpful as you can make light muscavado or dark muscavado sugar as long as you have some caster sugar and some treacle in the cupboard! 

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The kittens continue to be crazy little bundles of fluff this week. Blackie especially is not a respecter of personal space and likes to get really close to your face and eyeball you. Kitten food breath is a small price to pay for such adorableness! 

I also tried out two new dinners at the weekend – stuffed pattypan squash (stuffed with a mixture of veggies, tomato sauce, breadcrumbs and cheese) which I don’t think I’d repeat (at least with squash) because I didn’t like the taste of the squash at all. I also made a tomato feta filo pie one evening which was very tasty using this recipe (and I will make this again as I have leftover filo to use!). 

 

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On Wednesday I watched (and recapped!) the Bake-Off – and Jordan went home! Boo! Team Jordan will now switch to supporting other contestants in Jordan’s honour, including team Norman. As for me, I think I might behind team Martha at the moment! Who do you think will win? 

Last night I cooked up some pumpkin risotto with browned butter, sage leaves and stilton, and a pumpkin cream cheese loaf for an informal dinner with my friends (and bridesmaids). I’m so thankful to have such lovely friends!

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What are you up to this weekend? I’m going for brunch at Bill’s (giving them a second chance after my poor experience last time) and spending lots of time with the kittens!

x Kerry

 

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  1. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella says

    August 25, 2014 at 1:44 am

    Sounds like you had an adorably kitten-y weekend Kerry! I went to Melbourne and ate lots of food! lol

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  2. Diane @ Life of Di. says

    August 22, 2014 at 11:32 am

    Everytime I watch Barefoot Contessa, I immediately want to drop everything, move to the Hamptons and become a cook (though – all of this would require $ and skill for which I don’t have! Oh well.) πŸ™‚ Also, the Tomato Feta Filo Pie sounds great! I’ve never attempted anything like that but I would be willing to try.

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    • Kerry Cooks says

      August 22, 2014 at 12:49 pm

      I feel exactly the same! I watch it partly to lust over the cakes, and partly because of the ridiculousness of Ina building a new barn in her garden and then throwing a barn opening party!

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  3. EFW says

    August 22, 2014 at 10:44 am

    Sounds like you had a good week! I’m hoping to get our flat more organised this weekend. Is there such thing as an Autumn clean?!

    I was sad to see Jordan go but unfortunately there is a really good standard this year and I think it was inevitable πŸ™ I LOVE Norman but I think he’s at risk too! So I’m on Team Martha for now πŸ™‚
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    • Kerry Cooks says

      August 22, 2014 at 10:49 am

      Definitely agree on the autumn clean!

      The standard is SO high! I agree its not looking too good for Norman, Diana or Chetna… I wonder who will go next!

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  4. Emma says

    August 22, 2014 at 9:24 am

    That filo pie sounds amazing – would you be able to post the link? I wanna try! x

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    • Kerry Cooks says

      August 22, 2014 at 10:50 am

      Here it is! http://inspiration.sainsburys-live-well-for-less.co.uk/recipes/vegetable-and-feta-tart/

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