I'm April, the author, recipe developer, food photographer and stylist behind Whisk it Real gud. What started as a hobby while being a stay at home mom, has now grown into a business!
Being brought up in multicultural and diverse areas of Northern, NJ, not only have I gained long time friendships of people from many different ethnicities, but I've also developed a very diverse taste palate.
I currently live in the DC area with my husband in a house full of wonderful boys. Two of our youngest were diagnosed with Autism a few years ago.
I love spending time with my family, Netflix (watch bird box, best scary movie 😱) and a big bowl of my husband’s famous chili. Last, but not least, I love to travel.
When I'm not busy with the boys, I'm creating food for the blog, I stay stuck in nostalgia mode, making southern and ethnic recipe, or mashups, influenced by my childhood. The recipes I create are easy and the ingredients are accessible. Also, to make sure readers are on the right path, I provide step by step process shots and tons of helpful tip to make your recipe a success.
Each week, I will share recipes that are not only good, but also easy to make. My hope is that you check them out, stop by and say hi , or ask a question in the comments, and of course, make some of my recipes!
WHAT SORT OF RECIPES ARE ON WHISK IT REAL GUD?
-Easy recipes focused on my favorite foods I grew up on. For example, comfort food, tacos, southern, Mexican, Italian and Asian inspired and many more.
-Most of the recipes I make are quick and easy. During these challenging times, we are all busy, therefore, quick but delicious food is pretty important.
-Go to pantry staple ingredients. Which means, you’ll probably have all of the ingredients to make the recipes on here. I only post recipes I'll actually eat. I don’t follow trends. I love familiar food like, Jamaican beef patties, southern sweet cornbread, chicken stir fry, homemade taco seasoning and beef burritos, or meatloaf etc, but I also love making unique and international recipes.
For example, bulgogi chicken . It’s basically a flavorful marinated Korean chicken. This unique salmon with rhubarb sauce is pretty popular during the summer. I also enjoy cooking restaurant inspired favorites like, sweet and sour chicken, Lemon garlic shrimp alfredo shrimp pasta and more.
I truly hope my recipes inspire you or make you a more confident cook. I also hope you and your family enjoy them so much that you’ll make them over and over again and share them with your family and friends!
Follow me on this cooking journey and let’s create some amazing but EASY food.
One last thing, I seriously LOVE seeing the food you are making! It would really make me happy if you tag @whiskitrealgud in your Instagram stories or photos. We ADORE seeing what our readers are making!
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My chicken and green beans stir fry with sweet chili sauce is the most popular recipe on Whisk it Real Gud.
These southern collard greens, candied yams and southern peach cobbler are also trending. People are loving them! Save it for the holidays.
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Roger Raney
I am so thankful that I happened upon your website (simply by googling...perfect meatloaf.
WOW!!! I have always been complimented on most meals I cook including my meatloaf but I wanted to step it up a notch and was searching on how to improve it. Sometimes I've used crackers, sometimes bread crumbs but I never even thought about soaking the bread in beef broth, eggs and Worcestershire sauce. My wife was blown away!!!
Thanks again.
April Wright
I really appreciate your great feedback and glad you guys enjoyed it! Thank you so much!
Colleen
HI! Just found your site and have several of your recipes to make - including your collards. Wondering if you could add an "Older" button on your homepage to index your previous recipes? I like that you share what you are serving along with your recipes. Colleen
April
I'll see what I can do. Thanks again Colleen!
Deborah Brothers
April, all of your recipes are "BOMB". I have made several but usually do not comment but after I made your Jamaican Beef Patties, I had to reach out to you. I love to cook and admire my cooking mates. I am not Jamaican, I am Black Canadian but love good food from all over the world. Although I live in Canada, I have been to NY and NJ numerous times in my life. Congratulations and your cooking achievements. You deserve to be in my Cooking Hall of Fame.
April
Thank you so much for your kind words Deborah! I plan on going to NJ and NY this spring to restaurant hop lol. I love food from all over too! I've been to Canada and the restaurants there are fantastic! Thanks for stopping by and I'm glad you enjoyed the recipes so far. PS. The beef patties are my favorite recipe on this blog!
Melody Gardner
Girl friend --- stay in Kansas City --- We love diversity and culture in our eating adventures!! I live in Parkville, and love your blog!!!
April
Hi Melody!! Sorry I'm late responding but Kansas was a great experience! I will be back! Thank you so much :)!
Mame
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!
April
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 🙂
Kat
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??
April
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!
April
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!
diane liva
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