Natural Lifestyle Monthly ✨ What you missed in August Hey Reader, here's your recap of what you might have missed last month on Blue Tea Tile Natural Lifestyle Blog and YouTube Channel. Tea & Infusions Rooibos Iced Tea Rooibos turns into a mildly nutty and refreshing beverage for hot summer days with some honey and zesty orange and lemon! Watch how Get recipe Blackcurrant Leaf: Dry, Store, Steep Blackcurrant leaves have a beautiful aroma and fine flavour in teas, iced teas, and other...
8 days ago • 1 min read
🌿 Natural Lifestyle Letters Reader, the refreshing cooler for the last summer heat waves, is the fragrant and floral iced jasmine green tea - homemade, of course. When you cold-brew jasmine green tea, it has softer notes and almost zero possibilities to end up bitter like when steeping green tea with too hot water. If you have problems with bitter cup of tea, learn how to avoid it here. You can simply use jasmine pearls, like these ones, or green tea with jasmine buds or petals for your...
12 days ago • 1 min read
Natural Living Bucket List Bucket List for September Reader, the darkness has started to creep in here in the North. Though we live in the South of Finland, the autumn is coming on quite strongly already. This is the time to wander in the forest among the autumn leaves whenever there is enough light and bake and enjoy things at home. If you missed the Natural Living Bucket Lists from the past few months, you can find them here: August | July. But let's get back to the upcoming month -...
15 days ago • 6 min read
Natural Lifestyle Letters Hi Reader, lingonberry season is officially on! Take advantage of the lingonberry bounty with these from-scratch recipes! Fluffy Lingonberry Semolina Porridge Vispipuuro, the Finnish whipped lingonberry semolina porridge, is an easy recipe to whip up for breakfast or a snack that you can meal prep to enjoy during the week or serve right after making... Get recipe Nordic Lingonberry Pie with Cardamom A seasonal lingonberry pie with the nuttiness of almond flakes and...
20 days ago • 1 min read
🌿 Natural Lifestyle Letters Reader, we think of a garden as giving us berries, flowers, and vegetables, and herbs… but some of the useful things are hiding tough we have already taken our harvest. Blackcurrant bushes are a great example: we wait for the berries, and after picking them, that's it. …but did you know that the blackcurrant leaves can become tea, iced tea, or even a homemade drink? Being curious to use what you already have, or in this case, what is growing around you, is one of...
27 days ago • 1 min read
🌿 Natural Lifestyle Letters Hi Reader, Rooibos is one of the most versatile herbal teas I know. I have used it for this chai latte recipe, and for an iced tea recipe that I’m sharing with you today, with an updated version. The leaves of rooibos have deep red and orange colours that will give beautiful hues to the beverage, which you can see best here. But not only the colors, but the flavour of rooibos tea is something I cannot completely explain. It has a beautiful, slight nuttiness which...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Natural Lifestyle Monthly ✨ What you missed in July 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 August Bucket List August is all about the amazing abundance of vegetables in the garden. Spend your time picking the treasures of the forest, berry season is on! Read more Tea & Infusions Drying Herbs for Tea - Naturally Drying herbs in a bouquet to bundle dry them in large quantities, sewing the...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Natural Lifestyle Letters Reader, I don't know about you, but it feels like we have been living in the forest for a few weeks now, and blueberries are all I can think of! So I wanted to share with you a few of my best blueberry recipes today: Blueberry Simple Syrup Using only a few real ingredients and a gentle simmer, blueberry simple syrup is easy to make. The result is a sweet, richly flavored syrup that goes perfectly with lattes, iced teas, mocktails, or even on top of the ice cream! Get...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
🌿 Natural Lifestyle Letters Reader, when I started drying herbs, I thought at first that I needed a dehydrator or that beautiful drying rack I saw on Instagram to hang on the ceiling to dry herbs “properly“ or “professionally”. Turned out that drying herbs is so much simpler than that. Herbs are not fussy. To dry herbs properly and to keep their flavor and properties, they need basically just air, shade and time. That’s it. Otherwise, you can dry them almost however you like, for example, in...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read