🌿 Natural Lifestyle Letters Reader, do you ever wish you could enjoy black tea normally, without checking what time of day it is because it has caffeine in it? I stumbled upon Ivan Chai when I was studying more about teas and herbs (you can find my reading suggestions here). Ivan chai is an infusion made of fireweed leaves (also known as willowherb) that have been turned black with the natural process of oxidizing and fermenting. After the process, the flavour is similar to black tea, and...
9 days ago • 2 min read
🌿 Natural Lifestyle Letters Hi Reader, Many edible flowers can be enjoyed far beyond the garden. You can gently pick a few fragrant petals, dry them, and save a little piece of summer for the months ahead. When collecting flowers for tea, always make sure they are edible and haven't been treated with pesticides. Harvest them on a dry, sunny morning after the dew has disappeared, then spread the petals out on a tray or sieve in a well-ventilated place until they are completely dry. At our...
23 days ago • 2 min read
Natural Lifestyle Monthly ✨ What you missed in June Hey Reader, here's your recap of what you might have missed last month on Blue Tea Tile Natural Lifestyle Blog and YouTube Channel. Natural Home How to Live Life Naturally While Traveling You have your systems, habits, and routines at home to maintain your llifestyle standards: whole foods, less waste, and plenty made from scratch. Travel can disrupt the systems you had set up. So how to keep your lifestyle standards while traveling? Read...
24 days ago • 2 min read
Natural Living Bucket List Bucket List for July Hi Reader, it seems like June went by so quickly — can you believe July is already here next week? If you missed the past months' Natural Living Bucket List, you can find it here: June Bucket List. Don't know about you, but July is for us the official stay-out-as-much-as-you-can month. Waters are still quite cold here in the North, but we have been swimming in the sea for a long time for we do as well cold plunges when ice hole swimming during...
25 days ago • 3 min read
Natural Lifestyle Letters Hi Reader, summer is not summer if there's no iced tea - and the best iced teas are made from scratch. These recipes are my ultimate favourites to amplify the summer mood with less additives and colorants and just to enjoy the natural flavours of the homemade iced beverages. Honey-Sweetened Iced Tea Make and sweeten your own iced tea with honey to avoid artificial sweeteners and shop-bought iced teas filled with white sugar. Get recipe Watch video Lemon Balm Iced Tea...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
🌿 Natural Lifestyle Letters Reader, we are already in the middle of the year and Sunday is summer solstice - the day when the daytime is the longest as it can get this year. Here in the Northern hemisphere it means almost no night at all - a white night. So how to celebrate summer solstice? We Nordics love this festival of light so I have plenty of summery recipes and tips for you coming up and more listed in the June Bucket List too ♡. What to drink One of my true favourites is making a...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
🌿 Natural Lifestyle Letters Hi Reader, do you ever feel that you return home from a trip feeling like you needed another vacation to recover from the vacation? I felt like that a few years ago, and we were joking about it with my husband. But the truth was that while we had fun, we came home exhausted. That made us pay attention to how we could travel in a way that felt more aligned with the natural lifestyle we enjoy at home. Many times, when you leave for a vacation, and forget the habits...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
🌿 Natural Lifestyle Letters Hi Reader, do you ever feel that you return home from a trip feeling like you needed another vacation to recover from the vacation? I felt like that a few years ago, and we were joking about it with my husband. But the truth was that while we had fun, we came home exhausted. That made us pay attention to how we could travel in a way that felt more aligned with the natural lifestyle we enjoy at home. Many times, when you leave for a vacation, and forget the habits...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
@BlueTeaTile Hi Reader, You might recognise this feeling. Matcha and I, we didn't have a great start. To be honest, I didn't like it at all. The grassy flavour simply wasn't for me, and I couldn't understand why so many people loved it and what all the fuss was about. Then a friend and colleague of mine made matcha fudge for our booth at a Restaurant Day sale. To my surprise, I loved it! That made me realise that matcha, paired with vanilla and sweetness, is a whole other story than a plain...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read