CHARCOAL 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. Smoked carrot blinis A favourite vegan recipe. Smoked carrot as surprisingly pleasing alternative to smoked...
Smoked carrot blinis
From the latest Do Book, Do Smoke, written by Jen Goss & Scott Davis. It’s a modern guide to smoking and curing. There is something wonderful about smoking your own food. Done well, home smoked ingredients add a new dimension to even quite simple dishes; layers of...
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’s cauliflower curry
This warming, autumnal recipe is from Kate’s beautiful latest book, ‘Home Made’, and it’s a lively warming supper. From Kate "The one vegetable Ben Ward, the grower behind Moor Park Garden, struggles to grow is cauliflower. ‘I’ve grown the occasional beauty, but to...
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...
Jess Dennison’s rosemary and apple cake
Jess Dennison, the talented cook of Elliotts in Edinburgh, has written a brand-new cookbook. It’s an absolute triumph that celebrates her favourite midweek meals. Simple, tasty and down-to-earth cooking for any time of the week really, Jess’s Midweek Recipes is out...
Our Brand Director shares her favourite places in N Wales
Will from Oyster Holiday Cottages came to Halen Môn to ask us to share our favourite spots in North Wales. Jess, our Brand Director, shared some hidden gems, from the best chip shops to her favourite beach, and even an abandoned Victorian brickworks that makes for a...