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 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
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
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...
5 Welsh Proverbs for St David’s Day
Designs/drawings: J Lea-Wilson
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 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
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
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
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...
Some very good news for our local woodland
A couple of months ago we put out an appeal for votes for our local community woodland group, Llyn Parc Mawr, who had been shortlisted for a sustainability award sponsored by M & S. The aim of the group, which Halen Môn's David is involved in, is to establish a...