Welcome
to Buckley Bites!
As
a kid my sister and I would play restaurant on the weekends. We would anxiously beat our parents out of bed and create a brunch menu out of groceries we had in the house. We would set a table for our parents and approach them as a waitress- well, in our minds, this meant carrying a wet rag on our forearm, holding a pad of paper and wallah, waitress. We would take their requests back to our version of a playground and create dishes that many of my college friends would struggle to make. I was an
eight-year-old who played cook but instead of using a plastic kitchen, I used
our stove, knives and groceries.
In
high school, friends loved to come to my house. I was in an experimental phase
and would make elaborate pasta dishes for an after-school snack. Much better
food than the cheese and crackers, or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
available elsewhere. While my friends were watching The Real World, I was
admiring Giada and knew exactly what time Barefoot Contesa was on TV.
By
college, I would find myself in communication lecture courses day dreaming, not about boys or cute outfits I could wear out of expensive clothes I could not afford- well maybe sometimes, but about food pairings and recipes. I got a reputation of being quite the cook once I moved off campus and
had my own kitchen to experiment in.
One
day, while creating a dish in my head for a friend’s party, I decided to write
the concoction down. After ten years of throwing dishes together by sight and
taste, creating measurements was not easy. Nevertheless, I wrote my first
official recipe.
What
makes Buckley Bites unique is my interest in health.
A
healthy body is my aspiration.
A
discomfort in my stomach and overall strange chemical changes felt by my body landed
me in a nutritionist’s office. The cause was unknown; a parasite, perhaps
stress or medication, or any number of issues. Regardless, the recommendation
was to cut wheat, yeast, dairy, sugar and some other foods from my diet. Ever
since, I have researched dietary affects on health.
This
blog provides healthy recipe options. Special “super food” ingredients, such as
quinoa, the absence of butter, and dairy-free and wheat-free options are
hallmarks of my recipes.
Now,
I am a keen believer in the 80-20 rule. Be healthy 80 percent of the time and
free the rest. So, make a nourishing recipe for lunch and tonight when
entertaining, indulge yourself and your guests with my Super Bowl finger foods.
Be healthy again tomorrow.
Select
your recipe, naughty or nice, and be assured you are cooking healthy-without sacrificing taste- when following this blog.
Pull
out that apron, pour yourself a glass of wine and start cooking!
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