Welcome to Seasonal Simple Life! I’m so happy you’re here and I hope I can help you on your journey toward a simple and seasonal way of life.
Whether you’re interested in gardening, cooking, preserving, soapmaking, or crafting, I’m happy to share my experiences with you.
Latest blog posts
Gardening
Beginner’s Guide to Composting: How to Make Compost In 8 Easy Steps
Ah compost! The gardener’s "brown gold" that is the magic bullet for all our garden problems: Wanna add nutrients to your soil? Mix it with compost. Got water retention issues? Add compost to your soil. Looking for the perfect seed-starting soil? Compost it is. In...
How to get rid of fungus gnats
Nearly everybody who has indoor plants will sooner or later make the dubious acquaintance of fungus gnats. Not only but especially in winter, those tiny black insects whirl up from the soil when we water our plants and fly around seemingly aimlessly. Unfortunately,...
Small garden, huge harvest: Maximising your small vegetable garden
When I was a child, we had a vegetable garden of about 40 square meters. Seeing that we were six people and Granny also had a patch for her and Gramps, it was a relatively small garden. Yet, it produced most of our vegetables, and we rarely had to buy any from the...
Recipes
„Spaetzle“ – A Traditional Recipe from Southern Germany
If you have ever been to Southern Germany, I hope you have tried our “Spätzle”! If you have, I just know that you loved them. If not, let me explain what we're talking about here: Spaetzle are a kind of pasta where the raw dough is pressed into boiling water. You can...
Savory Rouladen: Germany’s Timeless Beef Rolls That Tell a Story
Hearty German beef rolls, the so-called "Rouladen" are a popular dish for Sunday lunch or holiday feasts here in Southern Germany. Traditional restaurants have this delicious comfort food on their menus, and although they may seem "vintage" they are a still a big hit....
Authentic Bavarian Apple Strudel (with Vanilla Sauce)
When my siblings and I were children, we used to play outside a lot (those were the days), even in winter. Or rather: especially in winter. We had a (small but great) hill in our back garden that used to be frequented by all the children in the neighbourhood as a...
Preserving
Sweet-sour pumpkin
Let’s be honest: there comes a point every autumn when we hit “peak pumpkin spice”. You know, when even your neighbour’s cat seems to wear a pumpkin spice collar. But wait: before you swear off anything pumpkin for the rest of your life, let me introduce you to this...
How to Preserve Quince: Easy Recipes for Beginners
Once the apples, plums, and pears are harvested, once all the nuts are dried and in bags for storage, and the vegetable garden is cleaned up for winter, we are blessed with one last fruit: the quince. Looking like a knobbly apple but smelling deliciously aromatic,...
Pear Jam
After a year with almost no fruits due to an arid spring and summer, this year provides us with abundant berries, apples, plums and pears! Every evening I peel and slice fruits to preserve them for winter. I've already made apple sauce, dry-canned apples and started...
Home and Body
Calendula soap (Beginner’s recipe)
Calendula is known for its skin-soothing and wound-healing effects. This easy recipe for calendula soap makes for a very mild soap that's even suitable for babies. The recipe is beginner-friendly which means that the process is not too complex. If this is your first...
Five uses for calendula
The first year I cultivated my garden, I decided to sow a few calendula between rows of red cabbage. The patch looked beautiful with its combination of thick violet cabbage heads and the bright orange calendula flowers floating above them like tiny suns. Not knowing...
Orange peeling soap
Earlier this year, I got my hands on some organic orange peel... well, ok: a lot of organic orange peel and apart from all the other things I made out of it, I tried my hand at making my first ever hydrolate. It turned out pretty well and I immediately thought about...
About Me
Hi, I’m Angela, the “face” behind Seasonal Simple Life. Welcome to this blog!
Do you dream of creating a colourful and lively vegetable garden where you’ll cultivate all the vegetables you want?
Without chemistry but diversity and many tried and tested varieties that will fill your harvest basket with healthy and tasty fruit and vegetables?
In the evenings, the flavour of freshly cooked tomato sauce flows through the house; winter will come, eventually, and your pantry won’t fill on its own…
Do you want to live a seasonal simple life, decorate your house, craft things that make you happy and add beauty to your home?
Let’s do this together!
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