Hi there! Thank you for visiting Whisk It Real Gud.
A little background about me: I grew up with my mom and southern grandmother and they both taught me how to cook. Every weekend my siblings and I looked forward to big meals. They showed me that I didn’t need a lot of expensive ingredients to make a good meal, or spend hours in the kitchen making great meal.
I’m from the melting pot of NJ/NY area. I was always surrounded by culturally diverse people and food. I started this blog in late 2014 to document my recipes for friends and my family. The whole food recipes on this site are are a reflection of all the food I grew up eating with family and friends like, Southern, African, Caribbean, Latin American, Asian, Italian. My recipes are simple and use everyday ingredients. You’ll be able to make everything since I use ingredients you probably already have. On this blog you’ll find easy comfort recipes, nostalgic meals, or readers FAVORITE, southern recipes, soul food recipes and international recipes among others.
My work on this site has been featured in: Essence,Walmart, Barilla, Country Living, Giant Eagle, Delish, Buzzfeed, Shape, Swiss Diamond, Stratford University, Greatist, Rue la la, Foodista, Foodiecrush, Sheknows, Thefeedfeed, and Spoonuniversity, to name a few.
I currently reside in super cold Kansas City (temporarily) with all boys that keep me busy. My husband, our 4 and 6 year old (both on the autism spectrum) and teen.
We will be back home to the DMV this summer. Got questions? Do you have any recipe requests for me? I would love to read about them. Just want to say Hi? That’s cool!
Feel free to message me anytime and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
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Well Hello April, i love food and cooking is my passion as well. Maybe one day i can share some of my african recipes with you. Thank you for sharing your recipes. Today i will be making the meatloaf. I will update you on how it went. Thanks!
Hi Khuja! You are very welcome! Sure you can message me your favorite recipes. If I like your recipe, I will definitely post the recipe to the blog. I hope you enjoy the meatloaf 🙂
I can’t find a way to comment or give a well deserved 5 stars! 😊 I’ve subscribed but it’s still not showing up. The meatloaf is to die for!! My son requested it last night for his 26th birthday and he brought his girlfriend. They both just raved. This is a HUGE compliment to you because neither she nor I even like meatloaf. At all. But I LOVED this. The meat I bought was Ground Kobe because it was a special occasion and it was THE BEST. Are you on Instagram??
That’s is so kind of you Kat! I appreciate the lovely comment. I love it. Yup, I was the same way. I hated meatloaf until I made my own version. So glad your son’s birthday dinner went great. Happy Birthday to him! Thanks so much for subscribing too. I took off a couple months from my blog and most social media because we moved halfway across the map. Had to get settled etc and now that my kids are in school I can get back to blogging. Yes, I am on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whiskitrealgud/. Look out for recipes very soon! Not sure why you couldn’t comment on my post. If you could try to comment on the meatloaf post that would be awesome. It will also help others decide if they want to make it or not. Scroll to the bottom there should be a comment field. I just approved another comment. If it doesn’t work for you don’t worry about it. Thanks so much again 🙂 Enjoy your week!
I have to take a trip to NJ/NY soon. I love the restaurants in the tri state area. So many ethnic restaurants to choose from. I miss living there. I’m going to look up Pio Pio and put it on my to do list when I get up there. I hope you enjoy the rice Diane! It’s a favorite of mine!
Hi, thanks for the chaufa recipe. we just got back from a trip to NJ and NYC to see family, and we happened to eat at Pio Pio on 10th Av.e. The chaufa was fabulous. We’re in the Bay Area and there is a dearth of Peruvian restaurants here, and their menus seem to be very different, so many thanks for the recipe.
Diane and Lisa