welcome to beyond my kitchen!

I’m Christine living in the Rhineland (Germany). I’m a food lover & a cat lover – addicted to crime & mystery fiction as well as grand movies & binge watching TV series – above all I cannot survive w/o espresso … and I’m now Beyond my Kitchen.

Over the past decades I spent (too) many hours in my office workspace & had only limited time for food shopping & re-creation of delicious recipes. So I learnt to improvise, to simplify & to use everything currently available in my pantry for cooking & baking w/o sticking to recipes literally. In other words: I never got any job training in cookery.

This food blog will help you how to manage home cooking of delicious meals using a limited variety of ingredients & processing them quick & dirty. I fancy a basic cooking & baking approach with fresh ingredients (depending on season & availability!) as well as working w/ convenient products – simple & straightforward & foolproof.

… also …

My better half & I – we love travelling. So since having started my food blog every now & then you’ll stumble across a post about our travel adventures.

… and always true:

“Done is better than perfect!

by Sheryl Sandberg

Photography

Usually I grab my iPhone which is reliable & easy to handle or my Olympus E-410 SLR with a 14-42 mm lens (Olympus EZ-1442) resp. a 50 mm lens (Olympus Zuiko Auto-S).

All pictures are taken in my kitchen at daylight: there is no home made foto studio with any artificial backgrounds, no floodlights, no spotlights, no reflectors.

… & for the sake of completeness: I cannot just open some kitchen cabinets filled w/ lots of selected chipped china or stacked wooden boards battered by time … or frayed linens … because there isn’t anything like that. I always capture reality.

In a nutshell:
All photos are taken by myself & therefore copyrighted. Please don’t use any of my photos w/o written permission!

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Feel invited to visit my blog more murder … resp. immer wieder mord! !
(Due to my addiction to crime & mystery novels I started this blog about crime fiction series.)