SPRING RECIPES
Summer courgette conchigliette
This very simple pasta dish is full of flavour and is best enjoyed in the summer months when courgettes are in peak season. It is light and fresh and perfect for a summer evening in the sunshine. We have used both green and yellow courgettes here but no effect of the...
Pickled mango hot sauce
Everyone in our house is happy when we have a few jars of this in the cupboard – it’s a beautiful marinade for chicken or tofu and a knock-out dip for anything fried. Curing the mango first really brings out the sunshine flavour. If you prefer a less spicy condiment,...
Bay leaf, olive oil and sea salt ice cream
An intriguing ice cream that tastes like sunshine and sea in every spoonful. For the perfect balanced flavour, choose an excellent olive oil and an excellent sea salt. Here we add Honest Toil - cold-pressed, unfiltered extra virgin olive oil to the recipe, and finish...
Cheesy potato and shallot bagels
We can't think of a better way to start to the weekend than these bagels from Anna Shepherd's new book Love Vegetables. Or a better way to use our Popeth Everything Bagel Seasoning. INGREDIENTS MAKES 8 BAGELS 1 all-rounder potato, such as Desirée (about 250g),...
The everything egg sandwich
An elevated crispy bacon and egg sandwich made the Halen Môn way with our Rhubarb + Beetroot ketchup and Popeth everything seasoning.INGREDIENTS 1 square of focaccia Halen Môn Rhubarb + Beetroot Ketchup 4 smoked streaky bacon rashers 1 large free range egg Halen...
Nicola Lamb’s secret chocolate cake
Nicola Lamb is a master of her craft. She’s baked at all your favourite bakeries from Ottolenghi to Little Bread Pedler and has brought her expertise to her first cookbook ‘SIFT: The Elements of Great Baking’, sharing the theories and principles of great baking and...
The ultimate Halen Môn BLT
The ultimate Halen Môn BLT sandwich with the flavoursome addition of our brand new Rhubarb + Beetroot Ketchup. This bright pink zingy ketchup elevates an old favourite to something really special.INGREDIENTS 2 slices of good, sourdough bread Butter / mayo -...
Bee Wilson’s ratatouille
We absolutely love Bee Wilson’s latest book ‘The Secret of Cooking: recipes for an easier life in the kitchen’. Every recipe we've made from it so far has been a hit, including this ratatouille. The perfect use for the first of the courgettes. From Bee "Properly, it...
Anna Shepherd’s pea and potato gnocchi with crispy fried garlic butter
Anna Shepherd is a brilliant recipe developer (and brilliant friend of Halen Môn), and we’re delighted to be sharing a comforting gnocchi recipe from her brand new book ‘Love Vegetables’, which is out next week. The book is of seasonal and repeatable recipes that...
Our Welsh recipes
Prefer your Bara Brith made to a classic time-honoured recipe, or spiked with Negroni like Jack Bevan? Like your Welshcakes sweet as is traditional, or with green olives and herbs, like Anna Jones? We've got plenty of Welsh inspiration below.Classic Bara BrithThis...