WINTER RECIPES
Sausage and mash with smoky onion gravy
A comforting, creamy mashed potato recipe with herby glazed sausages and a savoury onion gravy (with a good glug of Halen Môn Smoked Water for incredibly satisfying depth). Some tips from chef Sam Lomas 'Onions are one of my all-time favourite things to cook. As a...
Root vegetable + blood orange salad
Something fresh and bright for the Christmas table from our cookbook, Sea Salt. This jewel-like blood orange and cured root vegetable salad makes a glittering starter or, served with a generously buttered slice of sourdough, it’s a simple, pleasing respite from all...
Gurd Loyal’s Masala-candied cocktail nuts
Gurd Loyal, our brilliant friend and food writer knows how to entertain. These perfectly spiced nuts feel like a celebration of British Indian cooking and are delicious with a cold beer or classic cocktail. Serve broken up into clusters and piled high in small bowls....
Five festive cocktails
Glittering glasses of cheer for the festive season. From frozen blood orange margaritas and a perfectly smoky negroni to a no-alcohol shrub with plenty of character so nobody feels like they’re missing out. Serve with a salty snack. Pomegranate + clementine Jin Môr...
Festive smoky fennel meatballs
A recipe for those in-between-days over the Christmas break. Festively red and green, these smoky meatballs and their sauce can be made ahead and then poached before serving. Perfect when you need a rest from all the main-event cooking. Poaching your meatballs, as...
Nicola Lamb’s chocolate, peanut + coconut biscuits
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...
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,...
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...