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.
The importance of quiet
Our Smoked Water has been making waves for a couple of years now, but last week we were incredibly excited to hear that we'd won an award for the 'Best Ingredient' from the World Food Innovation Awards. The judging panel were...
How to use rosemary
Herbarium, Caz Hildebrand's stylishly illustrated guide to 100 herbs and their uses, is as useful as it is beautiful. Here, Caz has kindly shared her thoughts on a much-used and much loved herb - rosemary. It's a key ingredient in our brand new skincare range, as...
Our artist neighbour
From the rolling hills and cloud-topped mountains of the Eryri to the jagged coastlines of Pembrokeshire, the beauty of Wales has long inspired great artists. Sir Kyffin, whose paintings pepper this page, lived and worked only a few miles from us here at Halen Môn and...
North Wales’ best waterfalls to visit
Emma Marshall, author of a new guidebook,‘Wild Swimming Walks Eryri/Snowdonia’ has shared with us her three favourite waterfalls from the book. ‘Wild Swimming Walks Eryri/Snowdonia’ leads you on 28 walk-swimming adventures in the soaring landscapes of Eryri National...
How to spot the Northern Lights in Wales
Wales may not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of viewing the Aurora Borealis, but it’s not entirely out of the question. While the Northern Lights are more commonly seen in places like Iceland or Norway, under the right conditions, the aurora can...
Favourite festive recipes
Celebrate with us, Halen Môn style. These are a few of the recipes that make it to our table over the Christmas season, all perfectly seasoned crowd pleasers. Christmas morning bunsLight and fluffy buns, inspired by the classic Chelsea bun. These gently spiced buns,...
Three favourite lakes in North Wales
Emma Marshall, author of ‘Wild Swimming Walks Eryri/Snowdonia’ has shared with us her three favourite lakes from her new guidebook book. ‘Wild Swimming Walks Eryri/Snowdonia’ leads you on 28 walk-swimming adventures in the soaring landscapes of Eryri National Park. As...
Kate Humble and the handmade at home
Kate Humble's latest book Home Made, like all good things, is the result of a collaboration. Alongside delicious, warming home made recipes it celebrates the artisans and makers that are behind our food. We're very grateful to have been included, you might recognise...
10 deliciously unexpected ways to use Popeth
Based on the American “everything” bagel seasoning (“Popeth” is Welsh for everything), our Popeth seasoning is savoury and gently warming, without being hot. The key to extracting the most flavour is to gently toast the seasoning in a dry frying pan (as you might do...
Building a new purpose-built smokery
This autumn, we are pleased to announce that work will soon begin on a new purpose-built smokery at our Saltcote on Anglesey. We launched our artisan smokery in 2008 with smoked sea salt, and have since developed it to produce other ingredients including a Great...