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Karen Shannon

Food & beverage
@willis_cooks_alot
Cooking & eating adventures ⚡️ tips, ideas and inspiration ✨DM to collab 📍London ✨ Follow me on @circleofwillis.studio 👩‍🎨🍽️
  • Food & Cooking
  • Following 4.4K
  • Followers 5.3K
  • Engagement 1.67%
  • Avg comments 8

About Karen Shannon

Karen Shannon (@willis_cooks_alot) is a Food & beverage creator on Instagram, also filed under Food & Cooking. The account has 5,313 followers and 2,194 published posts. Recent posts average 93 likes and 8 comments, an engagement rate of 1.67%.

Karen Shannon belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Karen Shannon follows 4,364 accounts, close to one account followed for each of the 5,313 followers. Karen Shannon uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Karen Shannon under Food & beverage, with Food & Cooking as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Karen Shannon runs to 16 words. The bio mentions @circleofwillis.studio. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Karen Shannon dates from December 2025.

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2,194 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Karen Shannon, 5 are carousels, 3 are videos and 2 are single images. No single format accounts for most of them. With 2,194 posts published, Karen Shannon's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 2.4 followers for each post published. Karen Shannon also keeps 2 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 61 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include roast, butter, chicken, were and lunch. The captions tag #bakedscallops, #ndjuascallops, #ottolenghi and #misoonions.

Birthday lunch at The Devonshire did not disappoint. Nor, I might add, did the Prix Fixe menu. Great to try somewhere new. Did not have a Guinness but we did have a lot of cocktails afterwards at Ham Yard. Excellent stuff 🧡🧡🧡 ps - I can recommend the Black Salt Martinis 🍸
Baked Potato Tonnata! Now, this is something my sister made me that I’ll make on repeat - the husband will no doubt stick to fish fingers. Vitello Tonnato is a traditional Italian dish of thinly sliced roast veal topped with tuna sauce but a baked potato is also a thing of wonder.
Tricky weekend marking the first year milestone of life without Mum, followed sharply by Mother’s Day. We will be at home cooking a roast chicken. My love to all you mothers out there and sending a big squeeze to anyone who needs one today ❤️ ps - I’m glad I got to take her to, pictured here a couple of years ago
is the bomb! We said yes to the specials and we’re not disappointed ❤️
It hasn’t stopped raining in Barcelona, so what else should one do? 💁‍♀️💜
We did the set lunch at and heartily recommend it. Excellent value, even better company and of course, I LOVE the illustrations everywhere by John Broadly ❤️
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Starter: thinly sliced Fennel, raddicio, chicory, Waitrose burrata, lemon zest (oh I forgot this), and juice, and wholegrain mustard. They recommended hazelnuts but I switched to cashews and fry fried them until golden. Do this in any combination and you can’t lose.

Main Event: Porchetta. Never made this before. With the confidence of a novice, I ordered my rolled pork loin. Realised it wasn’t enough for 4, bought a slab of pork from the butcher’s and just hoped for the best trying to rework the recipe (it’s Jamie Oliver’s Porchetta fyi). Our favourite butcher at said “I wouldn’t put chicken livers in it” but I’d committed by then. And if you have Vino Santo, you should probably use it.

It… was… delicious!!! They cooked (2 of them now you see) like an hour and a half before I was ready but it was fine wrapped in foil. The gravy was amazing (pic 2).The roasters were tossed in my concoction of chicken powder, garlic power, and baking powder, oh and they were par boiled in stock so I’m really pulling out all the guns here. You can imagine, top tier, would be proud ❤️
Well deserved. Dry Jan, how arid you were. didn’t let us down. Fabulous roast beef, bottle of Pinot Noir and a sticky toffee pud for him 💘
My sister bought some beautiful scallops so we could make our favourite Ndjua Scallops for Christmas Eve. No, they did not disappoint. You can see how easy they are in the reel. The only pre-step was to make the butter and literally, all that is is butter + Ndjua (I used Waitrose own label), say parts 1 of the paste to 3 of butter (there’s a brilliant vegan one is you’re pescatarian). Then I rolled it in baking paper and popped it in the freezer to firm up for a bit. If you have a go at this do let me know! It’s such a fancy starter if you’re having people over, completely delicious and so easy! #bakedscallops #ndjuascallops
From Ottolenghi’s Flavour book. This three ingredient dish turns into something quite spectacular after 70ish minutes in a hot oven. Equal parts white miso to butter and whisked with water to create a sauce that slowly reduces to a thick salty umami moorish sensation. #ottolenghi #misoonions

Karen Shannon's engagement

Karen Shannon's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.67%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 60 followers. An average post collects 93 likes and 8 comments, close to 12 likes for each comment.

Engagement rate

1.67%

Avg likes
93
Avg comments
8
Interactions : followers
1 : 60

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Who is Karen Shannon?

Karen Shannon (@willis_cooks_alot) is a Food & beverage creator on Instagram, also filed under Food & Cooking. Karen Shannon uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Karen Shannon runs to 16 words.

How many followers does Karen Shannon have?

Karen Shannon has 5,313 followers on Instagram (5.3K). Karen Shannon follows 4,364 accounts, close to one account followed for each of the 5,313 followers. With 2,194 posts published, Karen Shannon's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.

What is Karen Shannon's engagement rate?

Karen Shannon's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.67%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 60 followers. An average post collects 93 likes and 8 comments, close to 12 likes for each comment.

What does Karen Shannon post about on Instagram?

Flinque files Karen Shannon under Food & beverage, with Food & Cooking as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Karen Shannon, 5 are carousels, 3 are videos and 2 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Karen Shannon repeatedly use the words roast, butter, chicken, were and lunch. Karen Shannon's captions carry hashtags such as #bakedscallops, #ndjuascallops and #ottolenghi. Karen Shannon writes those captions mainly in English. Karen Shannon keeps 2 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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