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The hottest food trend this summer? Natural smoky flavour

This summer, producers are tapping into the continuing trend for smoky, wood-fired flavours. Consumers’ exposure to fire cooking and global barbecue flavours has grown, driven by the trend for restaurants cooking over open flames, the rise of BBQ social media...

Jen Goss + charity venture Cegin y Bobl

Cegin Y Bobl (The People’s Kitchen) is nothing short of a Welsh food revolution. The right to cook, eat and know food, is something that is at the very heart of Jen Goss's work with Cegin y Bobl and she believes it should be universal. Especially children at primary...

Unusual things to do in Wales

Visitors to Halen Môn often ask us for other recommendations of interesting things to do on the salty isle.  There are lots of lists out there but here we've pulled together some of the more unusual places to visit and things to do when you're on Ynys Môn.Explore...

James Chant + Matsudai’s cult ramen

Matsudai started in 2019 as a creative outlet for founder James Chant and since then has delivered tens of thousands of ramen kits to every corner of the UK, been celebrated by culinary heroes as Jay Rayner, Tim Anderson and Melissa Thompson and James has gone on to...

Celebrating the sea: how we can all protect the waters we love

As an organisation that relies on the incredible natural resources around our beautiful island, this World Ocean Day, we want to celebrate the seas all over the world, and share some ways we can all help protect the waters we rely on. The magic of seaweed  A truly...

Our charity of the year 2025

Every year our team votes for a charity to raise funds for, and this year the organisation we have chosen is Shelter Cymru.  For Shelter Cymru, home is everything. Their team helps thousands of people each year across Wales who are affected by the housing emergency,...

Letitia Ann Clark and For the Love of Lemons

Letitia Ann Clark's latest book For the Love of Lemons, celebrates a single sunny ingredient, the lemon. Joyful and bright recipes that transport us to sunnier days. Letitia kindly sat down to answer a few of our questions about the book and how she uses this...

A simple way to change children’s eating habits

The problemIn the UK, 33% of children aged 5-10 years eat less than one portion of vegetables a day. In recent years, fruit and vegetable consumption has declined in adults too, with only 31% eating the recommended five portions a day, despite the decades long ‘5-a...

The scent of rain: What is petrichor?

Have you ever stepped outside after a long dry spell, just as the first raindrops begin to fall, and recognised a scent in the air? Earthy. Fresh. Comforting. Not many people realise that scent has a name: petrichor. Coined in the 1960s by two Australian scientists,...

Halen Môn and Oxfam

You can now find Halen Môn on the shelves of your local Oxfam shop as a part of their 'Sourced By Oxfam' range, which brings together the best of ethical, sustainable and brand-new items from around the world. We're very proud to have been included. From the team at...

HALEN MÔN BLOG

Expect interesting and delicious articles on everything from how to use our pure sea salt to eco-friendly gift ideas, how to season like a chef to flavoured salt recipes.

A Very Welsh Circus in New York

A Very Welsh Circus in New York

Innovation, commitment and community - the famous NoFit State circus represents so many great things about Wales, which, we like to think, Halen Môn stands for too. Though perhaps not the most expected collaboration, we have a lot in common with the successful,...

A Panad with…Salted Caramel Queen Chloe Timms

A Panad with…Salted Caramel Queen Chloe Timms

Chloe Timms of Fattie's Bakery is the queen of salted caramel. Her stand on Druid St market in South London is always gloriously laden with an endless variety of sweets - caramel peanut butter, glistening pretzel crackers for dipping, freeze-dried fruit sherbets, and...

Pizza Pop-Up at Tŷ Halen for Easter Weekend

Pizza Pop-Up at Tŷ Halen for Easter Weekend

This weekend, we are excited to be welcoming Hilary from The Rustic Gourmet to Ty Halen, who will be selling her famous wood-fired pizzas, as well as our local mussels and Anglesey fish soup. The oven will be going from 11.30 to3.30pm on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th...

A Panad with… The Marram Grass Chef Ellis Barrie

A Panad with… The Marram Grass Chef Ellis Barrie

The Marram Grass is a fairly extraordinary cafe in Newborough, Anglesey. It's in an old potting shed on the edge of a caravan park, and it is also in the 2016 Good Food Guide. Perhaps not two things you'd necessarily put together. The friendly, tin-roofed cafe is set...

Salt Awareness Week: why you should use Halen Môn

Salt Awareness Week: why you should use Halen Môn

Salt awareness week is generally about warning people of the dangers of eating too much salt. Of course, this is extremely important. Like your mum probably told you, too much of anything is bad for you. But 75% of the salt we eat in the UK is already in the food we...

A Panad with…Harvey Nichols Buyer Kelly Molloy

A Panad with…Harvey Nichols Buyer Kelly Molloy

A Harvey Nichols Foodhall is always a safe bet when you're looking for something delicious and beautiful, and a big reason for this is the bright buying eye of Kelly Molloy. One of our favourite faces at food trade shows because she always has a new recommendation and...

Why our biggest waste product is far from a waste

Why our biggest waste product is far from a waste

As anyone who has been to our Saltcote or done one of our tours probably knows, by far the biggest by-product of our famous sea salt is distilled water. When we harvest Halen Môn salt from the sea we are left with the purest form of liquid. The water wasn’t what we...

Our Mussels: measured in food metres not miles

Our Mussels: measured in food metres not miles

From February 2016, we are very excited to be selling our very own fresh, homegrown mussels at our Saltcote in Brynsiencyn. Having been frustrated for some time at the lack of access to our own local seafood, we thought it was about time we did something about it. So...

A Panad with…Food Writer Signe Johansen

A Panad with…Food Writer Signe Johansen

Famous for her cinnamon buns and her splendid Scandinavian cookbooks, food writer Sig (AKA Scandilicious) has an infectious enthusiasm for good food. We were introduced on Twitter longer ago than we care to remember and have been firm food friends since, meeting every...