The English Homemaker

This episode of The English Homemaker talks about the art of homemaking, what the home is for and why it's vital to society. 'Home' isn't about being a mother or wife, it isn't about home ownership, it's about creating a safe and loving environment for other people to feel themselves, to belong, to become who they can be. Home can be a place of... Freedom, Connection, Full bellies, Love, Conversation, Relaxation, Fun, Life, Hugs, Comfort, Safety, Teamwork It's not about perfectionism or DIY or meal plans or cleaning routines... right? Mentioned: Rajiv Surendra on YouTube The Life-Giving Home by Sally and Sarah Clarkson I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is a little spring catchup, where I tell you about pneumonia, Sweden, our Easter menu and why I want more endorphins in my life. I talk about why and how I love to take and preserve photos and videos, and why I take 15 seconds to try and keep happy moments alive. "To live a quiet life of contentment, where your goal is stability and not eternal accumulation, is a radical thing in this insatiable world of ours. Where you aim is a quiet life, ambition becomes the friend of contentment and not the foe." Joy Clarkson Mentioned: Come from Away, the Musical on Apple TV  A Year on the Allotment YouTube video - https://youtu.be/rEnSi8WVo88 Aggressively Happy by Joy Marie Clarkson Lucy Aitkenread on endorphins @lucy_disco Project Life 12x12 Scrapbooking Album Swedish Style Påskägg Reusable cardboard Easter egg Grimms Celebration Ring Kilner Butter Churner & Paddles Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries books Lickedspoon with Debora Robertson - https://deborarobertson.com/blog/ Kuro Live in Hokkaido YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@kuro.hokkaido/videos   I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about balance! Really I don't think 'balance' is a thing we find the magic key to and then voila we're suddenly all ok, I think life is richer with the variety it brings and we need to embrace the up and down rollercoaster... but I also think there are things we can do to feel more balanced in the everyday, and so I'll talk about those today! This is a solocast and I often feel like they can be a little preachy, so please know I'm not an expert and I'm mostly talking to myself ♥ "Sometimes to lose balance for love is part of living a balanced life." Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert Mentioned: Rajiv Surendra https://www.youtube.com/@rajivsurendra Mother in the Northernlands https://www.instagram.com/motherinthenorthernlands/ I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is about weekend breakfasts! I have loved breakfast for a very long time - maybe one day I'll get round to updating my old cookbook. But for now here's a huge list of my favourite things to cook for breakfasts, and an insight into how we eat it at the weekends. A long, luxurious breakfast is the epitome of slow, hygge living, especially when we get the crossword out over a cup of hot chocolate with our favourite music playing softly in the background. I don't think you could leave this episode without some fresh, healthy breakfast ideas and inspiration! '...It is the sweet, simple things of life, which are the real ones after all' Laura Ingalls Wilder Hear my first food episode to know how we eat and why: https://theenglishhomemaker.podbean.com/e/episode-2-the-kitchen-dance/ Mentioned: The Kitchen Dance Free Weekly Meal Plan and links - https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-kitchen-dance-my-free-weekly-meal.html Our Norway Trip 10 years ago - https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2013/07/norwegian-food-fjords-and-fun.html One of our favourite Brussels Brunch stops - https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2015/11/brunch-at-god-save-cream.html Bircher Muesli recipe - https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2018/06/what-we-ate-on-monday-my-bircher-muesli.html Cardamom bun recipe - https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2020/02/my-perfect-cinnamon-cardamom-buns-or.html I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is a conversation with my older brother Martin, who lives with his family on a homestead in central Sweden. We talk all about his favourite chicken, thriving in cold Swedish sub-temperature winters, celebrating Christmas through old and new traditions, remembering your childlike faith and joy, over-intellectual humans, and the joy and purpose of discipline. We talk about being a true hero and wrestling through adversity, about being BRAVE. And as a final thought we talk about candle making, wicks and wax. Find Martin at: https://www.instagram.com/rebornferal/ Listen to The Swedish Homestead,  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-7-the-swedish-homestead-with-martin-carter/id1687481309?i=1000622482019 See my trip to Sweden to visit him on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cdsaWxRNg0U Mentioned: Grapat Advent Calendar 2mm braided cotton wicking 200m I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is a gorgeous conversation with the incredible Elisa Rathje of AppleTurnoverTV and The Journal of Small Work. We talk life on Salt Spring Island on the homestead, technicolour tomatoes,  not underestimating the deep nourishing work, switching the lead and follow, cooperative, conquering & traditional patterns and lifetime tools. She is a philosophical and artistic thinker and communicator, and I loved our conversation and hope you will too. We ask 'why am I trying to do this faster?', 'am I enough?', 'do I have value without a pay check?'. Find Elisa at: https://appleturnover.tv/farm/ https://www.youtube.com/c/appleturnovertv https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-journal-of-small-work/id1618683400   Mentioned: River Cottage old episodes  Alys Fowler and her polyculture backyard, The Edible Garden old episodes Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Gravetye Manor https://www.gravetyemanor.co.uk/ Zero Waste Chef on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/zerowastechef/ The Medicine Circle on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/themedicinecircle/ Feminism and the Mastery of Nature by Val Plumwood Less Is More by Jason Hickel Podcast with Jennifer Hinton https://accidentalgods.life/re-imagining-our-relationship-with-profit/ Waxed Jacket from New Forest Clothing https://www.newforestclothing.co.uk/collections/womens-wax-jackets Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman On enoughness essay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0LvceHhgew   I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about money, budgeting, saving, frugal living, questioning 'normal', money management and finances. It's been the trickiest episode to record, realising that everyone understands money and how it works in a different way... so I wanted to share my take on it, and hopefully remind you of some key truths as well as give some tips and practical ideas. “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for—in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.” ― Ellen Goodman Mentioned: The Serviceberry Essay - https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/ The Story of Jay Blades - https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbarthur/2022/01/23/the-story-of-jay-blades-how-can-choice-and-chance-combine-for-a-successful-career/ The Big Budget Challenge - https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2011/12/lessons-in-saving-money-and-budgeting.html My Family Meal Planning Tips and Tricks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDVflvEZ5vk Our Forever Toaster - https://uk.buymeonce.com/collections/dualit/products/dualit-4-slot-classic-toaster I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is an interview with Kezia from The Whole Home, and we talk all about realistic sustainability for the homemaker, how to make it practical and not overwhelming. I think it will surprise and encourage you, and give you some practical tips for adjusting your homemaking to have a lower footprint on the earth. We talk about the why and the mindset shifts behind truly making lasting change in your daily habits. She is the queen of conscious consumerism on a budget, second-hand shopping, meal planning, costing out your purchases and how to reduce waste. "It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality." Martin Luther King Find Kezia at: https://www.thewholehome.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/the.whole.home/ https://www.youtube.com/@thewholehome Mentioned: Clean & Green by Nancy Birtwhistle Consumed by Aja Barber Rajiv Surendra's Tudor Halloween Costume Kiss The Ground documentary I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about building community, nurturing relationships and making friends. It's about reclaiming the home as the birthplace of community, creating a space where people feel loved, peaceful and connected, and why that matters more than most anything else. There's a load of practical tips for engaging with those around you and reminding yourself of your community. I'm preaching to myself here because these are things I often forget, and I need to hold fast to. I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn   Mentions: Healthy at 100 by John Robbins 12 Ways your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke Homesteading with the Zimmermans YouTube Hannah McNeely YouTube   Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is an interview with Lizzy of Indi Skoven Prints. We talk renovating a Georgian home, adding colour and texture to create a 'visually joyful' home, inspiration for her interior style, the 'bolognaise test', and raising her family in the Wiltshire countryside. Also expect an update from me about our roadtrip holiday to the Moselle valley in Germany and how I'm leaning into autumn homemaking. Find Lizzy at: https://www.instagram.com/indi_skoven_prints/ https://indiskoven.com/ See our family trip to Germany at: https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2023/09/road-trippin-with-my-three-favourite.html "Easing into the Autumn Season in my Home & my Heart" : https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2023/09/easing-into-autumn-season-in-my-home-my.html Mentioned: Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones on Netflix Carl Larsson Nature & Nourish with Becky Cole https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/nature-nourish-with-becky-cole/id1331978126 Desktop/Tech Backgrounds via The Everygirl https://theeverygirl.com/category/tech-backgrounds/ See my Instagram Outfits for the IOIC at https://www.instagram.com/handmadeyears/ IOIC hosted by @trust.your.style Mayak Eggs, Korean Marinated Eggs Recipe https://seonkyounglongest.com/mayak-eggs/  I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is the season finale, and is a bit of a Q&A, a chat about how to clean the oven, about the benefits of monotasking as it pertains to stress and tidying your brain as well as your home. I answer questions about balancing motherhood and homemaking, and share my heart and thoughts, as usual. Anne of Green Gables: "You can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will". Coming from a cookie-cutter suburban house in the South of England, as always keeping a realistic but fresh view of homemaking. I hope this inspires and encourages you, I am not a perfect homemaker but I try my best to keep learning, and I want to share my journey with you. Books: A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind by Shoukei Matsumoto The Life-Giving Home by Sally & Sarah Clarkson Videos: Rajiv Surendra on Cast Iron Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjwvbQWR6DU The Cottage Fairy video on Monotasking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdH1jP6mtqI I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is an interview with my older brother Martin, who lives on his smallholding in Sweden with his wife and four children. He passionately believes in a wild way of living, connected to place and home, and talks about his journey to self sufficiency. He's a creative and philosophical soul, and he shares their daily and weekly seasonal routines. Find Martin at: https://www.instagram.com/rebornferal/ See my trip to Sweden to visit him on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cdsaWxRNg0U Books Mentioned: The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Intelligent Gardener by Steve Solomon I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about the politics of being a homemaker in the UK. It's heavy and it takes a look at the decision to make homemaking a full-time job for me and my family. I tell you about my £42.13 Sainsbury's shop, my gluten free sourdough experiments, my Beatrix Potter moments this week, and the changeable English weather lately (what's new eh?). Coming from a cookie-cutter suburban house in the South of England, as always keeping a realistic but fresh view of homemaking. I hope this inspires and encourages you, I am not a perfect homemaker but I try my best to keep learning, and I want to share my journey with you. Blog posts: Why I Call Myself a Homemaker https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2021/11/why-i-call-myself-homemaker-now.html Books: Radical Homemakers by Shannon Hayes I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about Homemaking in SUMMER! We talk tayberry jam, keeping bugs out the house, making my own Jersey milk yogurt, taking picnics to nearby gardens, absorbing Vitamin D properly and the celebration of Lammas. Coming from a cookie-cutter suburban house in the South of England, as always keeping a realistic but fresh view of homemaking. I hope this inspires and encourages you, I am not a perfect homemaker but I try my best to keep learning, and I want to share my journey with you. I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn Blog posts: Cinnamon bun recipe - https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2020/02/my-perfect-cinnamon-cardamom-buns-or.html My very own temamånader - https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2023/01/my-very-own-temamanader.html Mentions: Things for your Christmas wish list: JML Hands-free Can Opener KnitPro Yarn Swift Kilner Yogurt Making Set Books: Food for Friends and Family by Sarah Raven The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2023 by Lia Leendertz Renegade Beauty by Nadine Artemis A bit about Lammas - https://themysticalkingdom.blogspot.com/2009/08/lammas-celebration-of-first-harvest.html Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about happiness, joy, structure and routine, and how we can stop taking it all so seriously and take a more light-hearted approach to those things which you don't determine as important. Coming from a cookie-cutter suburban house in the South of England, as always keeping a realistic but fresh view of homemaking. I hope this inspires and encourages you, I am not a perfect homemaker but I try my best to keep learning, and I want to share my journey with you.   I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn   Mentions: Re-defining Rich by Shannon Hayes Sidetracked Home Executives by Pam Young and Peggy Jones Master the Art of Effective Communication and Handling Conflict with Richard Newman on The Ellen Fisher Podcast Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about introducing my approach to the home: cleaning, organising, renovations, decor, pretty vs practical, shame and pride, zero waste, minimalism, homes full of soul, gratitude and life lessons learned the hard way. Coming from a cookie-cutter suburban house in the South of England, as always keeping a realistic but fresh view of homemaking. I hope this inspires and encourages you, I am not a perfect homemaker but I try my best to keep learning, and I want to share my journey with you.   I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/ https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn https://www.pinterest.co.uk/thealissaevelyn/home-lifestyle/ Mentions: YouTube Scandish Home Homemaker Chic Podcast by Shaye Elliott and Angela Reed SHE method : Sidetracked Home Executives by Pam Young and Peggy Jones Spring Wardrobe Switchover Refresh on YouTube : https://youtu.be/eDOnW2TqBeU Thrift Shopping Tips : https://youtu.be/XN-iigOclXg Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo Dara Dubinet Instagram Favourites: inasfina karlerikhallden patriciarodi hannesmauritzson choki.home

A podcast episode all about good food and the kitchen dance. In this episode we discuss my food heritage, my travels and my recipe book, diet & food culture, how to cultivate the skill of cooking, meal prep & planning, my favourite cookbooks. It's a really broad intro to food as a homemaker in England, I could talk about food for such a long time, so there will be more detailed episodes on things like meal prepping and what I keep in my fridge. This podcast as always, comes to you from the suburbs of the south of England. Hopefully you find this a fresh and realistic take on homemaking. My name is Alissa Evelyn, and I'm so happy to have had time to chat with you today.   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/   Social Mentions: 5oclockapron frenchfamilyfood Ellen Fisher Links to my blog posts: Bircher Muesli Recipe: https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2018/06/what-we-ate-on-monday-my-bircher-muesli.html Far Breton Recipe: https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2023/05/far-breton-prune-custard-slice-to-live.html Weekly Meal Plan - Free Download : https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-kitchen-dance-my-free-weekly-meal.html Recommendations: The Makanai on Netflix Our Toaster: Dualit Classic 4 Slice NewGen (made in the UK and fully repairable) Cookbooks: Atsuko Ikeda's Japanese Kitchen Tessa Kiros' Falling Cloudberries (& Apples for Jam) Sophie Dahl's Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights Jamie Oliver's 30 Minute Meals Sarah Raven's Food for Friends and Family Phillip Stephen Schulz' As American as Apple Pie Olia Hercules' Summer Kitchens

Welcome to The English Homemaker Podcast! I'm so glad you're joining me today. This short intro episode introduces what to expect from the podcast going forwards. In a world where we are supposed to be ALL the things and do ALL the things, I'm here to say 'let's do it differently'.  Being a homemaker is an incredible source of joy, but it also comes with its challenges. Let's chat through all the ups and downs, the funny things and the sad things. I'm here for it all.