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.
Five festive canapés
Dazzling canapés for the Christmas season. All easy to whip up before your guests arrive and perfect with fizz. Pleasingly little and perfectly balanced bites. Mackerel + pickled beetroot blinisA really easy recipe for making your own blinis, which are topped with...
Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies
North Wales is home to the Eryri (Snowdonia) International Dark Sky Reserve where light levels are controlled to protect our night skies, and right here in Anglesey the night sky is much darker here than in many other places across the UK. Dani Robertson has spent a...
10 stocking fillers for under £10
Fill a Christmas stocking with Halen Môn favourites, all for under £10. From bespoke matches to Christmas tree smoked salt, it's hard to choose just one. The scent of fresh Christmas tree in a little ceramic jar with our Christmas Tree Sea Salt Our favourite Rosemary...
Easy Christmas desserts
Simple and speedy desserts for the Christmas season. All easy to whip up before your guests arrive or the night before and special enough for the big day itself.Chocolate mousseStanding on the shoulders of giants here with our take on Elizabeth David’s classic...
What is smoked water (and how to use it)?
What is smoked water? Our Smoked Water is a 100% natural artisan ingredient, made entirely from wood smoke and water. It has a huge range of culinary applications for homecooks and professionals alike. Our skilled team makes the product in our artisan smokers...
Homemade Christmas Gifts
We’ve put together a list of some of our favourite homemade gifts to make this Christmas- giving any of these, wrapped up in parchment paper and tied with some ribbon - will earn you some serious brownie points this festive season. Fermented chilli hot sauceThis is a...
A Halen Môn gift guide – what to buy and for who?
While we know lots of people on our list would be pleased with a well-seasoned gift from Halen Môn, we also know that sometimes choosing can be difficult, so we've put together a quick festive guide highlighting some of our favourites this year, from unusual stocking...
Great things in jars and tins
Once confined to the back of the cupboard, tinned foods are finally getting the attention they deserve with some incredible producers putting time and effort into making delicious, beautiful and sustainable tinned products. Look at our instagram for a tour of our...
35 B Corp brands in one place
We're incredibly proud to have joined the B Corp community earlier this year, alongside an admirable group of brands. Now, you can find 35 B Corp certified brands all in one place, on Ocado. They have a dedicated B Corp section online - 'B Corp Certified'. Certified B...
Seaweed in art: from dyes, to cyanotype, to poetry
We're very pleased to be able to share with you an exciting excerpt from Vincent Doumeizel's new book 'The Seaweed Revolution'. It explores how seaweed has shaped our past and can save our future. It's a fascinating read and has reinforced, for us here, the...