If I ever were to start blogging, that's what I would do. Or at least that's how I would start out. I can't really imagine how a site for my own blog would need more than that. Learning HTML well enough to write a blog is not any more difficult than learning the ins and outs of another markup format, plus how to use the site generator and template system.
I do the same, but after a while I got fed up with the tedium of hand-managing the metadata and all the duplication that happens if you add OpenGraph, Twitter and Dublin Core.
So I wound up storing the basic metadata in a JSON file, then I assemble the header and footer of the page with PHP, which is then rendered out to a complete HTML page.
It's not quite a SSG, but just a little help automating the boring stuff.