I did a bit of renovation in our ( rented ) apartment ( hope our landlord doesn't kick us out soon ).
I did the tiling myself - gave me a tremendous muscle ache but I'm very happy with it, even though I have to be even more precise if I ever want to do a floor with these cement tiles ... it's not finished yet we are also waiting for the painter to free us from these ugly abrasion walls and the wooden celling.
Any ideas how we could pimp our rather ugly kitchen covering?

Pear and cassette. If you feel like listening to some rather nice cassettes we recommend trilogy tapes.

This world can be utterly crazy!  While it seams everybody is talking about how we can protect our fish stocks and how to consume reasonably this is the EU strategy to solve the problem?

Half of all fish caught in the North Sea is thrown back overboard dead due to the current quota system imposed by the EU Common Fisheries Policy.

The problem is that in a mixed fishery where many different fish live together, fishermen cannot control the species that they catch. 

Fishing for one species often means catching another, and if people don’t want them or fishermen are not allowed to land them, the only option is to throw them overboard. The vast majority of these discarded fish will die.
Because discards are not monitored, it is difficult to know exactly how many fish are being thrown away. The EU estimates that in the North Sea, discards are between 40% and 60% of the total catch. Many of these fish are species that have fallen out of fashion: we can help to prevent their discard just by rediscovering our taste for them.
Others are prime cod, haddock, plaice and other popular food species that are “over-quota”. The quota system is intended to protect fish stocks by setting limits on how many fish of a certain species should be caught. 

Fishermen are not allowed to land any over-quota fish; if they accidentally catch them – which they can’t help but do - there is no choice but to throw them overboard before they reach the docks.
Please sign the petition now. More information you can get at fishfight.net.

Coeur de sel has been listed in Annabelles "10 most delicious food blogs" ( or however one should translate "gluschtig" )
more here

It's not that we would have eaten out every evening on our holidays, it's just we are to lazy to blog anything seriously. Kevin came up with some truly amazing dishes but writing them down is an other thing , especially after a lovely dinner and a good bottle of red wine.

Here's a little teaser - for us a reminder that there are some great recipes we still have to post .

hello friends,
i came across this link about food blogging and what i would call vernacular food photography... check it out on www.nytimes.com

Last saturday we had our annual coeur de sel xmas dinner. The men were djing the night before and were still fighting their hangovers. The woman had a nice bottle of wine with their racelette while looking after the kids and therefore were tired to. The best premise for a really funny evening...
We had a christmas tree, it was snowing outside and we drank the lovely "les Bartelles" red wine from Mas du soleilla even before we went to the kitchen.
Here some impressions:

As starters we had oysters

Followed by an outstanding mackerel terrine
and a fantastic light celeriac soup with red onions and cavalo nero

Next came ravioli with walnuts and orange filling.
Main course was a mixed salad with beetroot, Roquefort and
chargrilled lobster tails. Grilled on the balcony in the snow.
For pudding we had profiteroles.