WINTER RECIPES
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...
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...
Winter vegetable ratatouille with cheesy polenta and smoky crispy kale
INGREDIENTSServes 4 For the ratatouille 2 aubergines, chopped into 2cm chunks 4 tsp Halen Môn Pure Sea Salt in a Finer Flake 3 tbsp vegetable / light olive oil 2 red onions, peeled and quartered ½ butternut squash, chopped into 2cm chunks 3 garlic cloves, peeled 2...
Salted caramel hot chocolate
INGREDIENTSMakes 1 300ml jar 200ml/7fl oz milk or milk alternative 25g/1oz good-quality milk chocolate, grated (we like Pump Street sourdough and sea salt bar) 2 tsp Halen Môn Salted Caramel Sauce 1 tbsp cocoa powder Halen Môn Pure Salt in a finer flaked, to taste...
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...
Fermented chilli hot sauce
INGREDIENTSMakes 1 300ml jar 500ml boiling water 20g Halen Môn Pure Sea Salt 10 fresh red chillies (about 150g), cut into 1cm pieces, but seeds retained 1 thumb-sized piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and finely chopped 1 banana shallot, roughly chopped 4 garlic...
Nik Sharma’s roasted butternut squash recipe, delicious sauce, crispy leeks + farfalle
INGREDIENTSServes 4 455g butternut squash, peeled and seeded, diced into 2.5.cm cubes 60ml + 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil 480ml + 1 tbsp water 70g unsalted raw cashews 2 garlic cloves, smashed ½ tsp ground turmeric ½ tsp ground cayenne ½ tsp baking soda ½ tsp ground...
Jeremy Lee’s mushroom jalouise
INGREDIENTSServes 6 25g dried porcini 3 or 4 shallots 3 cloves of garlic 50g unsalted butter (or use 2 soup spoons of olive oil instead) 1kg large flat mushrooms, peeled and halved then blitzed fine in a food processor 75ml white wine 1 small finger-sized bundle of...
Halen Môn Kraut-chi
INGREDIENTSMakes 1 jar 2 kg of white cabbage (organic preferably) 45g Pure Sea Salt 60g spring onions 30g garlic 30g ginger root 20g-40g of Gochugaru chilli flakes, to taste depending how spicy you like it 50 ml of Oak Smoked Water Anna Jones of Jones Trust Your Gut,...
Autumn root stew with herby dumplings
INGREDIENTSServes 4 For the stew 4 tbsp olive oil 1 large onion, finely diced 2 garlic cloves, finely sliced A sprig of rosemary, leaves picked finely chopped 2 leeks, washed, sliced into 2cm rounds 100ml white wine 500-750ml vegetable or chicken stock 3 carrots,...