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 at a young age. I started this blog in late 2014 to document my recipes for friends and my family. My grandmother and mom taught me how to cook and bake at a very young age.
The recipes on this site are are a reflection of all the food I grew up eating and making 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 ethnic 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 the DMV (Maryland area) with my husband, our 5 and 6 year old (both on the autism spectrum) and teen.
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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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
I’ll see what I can do. Thanks again Colleen!
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.
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!
Girl friend — stay in Kansas City — We love diversity and culture in our eating adventures!! I live in Parkville, and love your blog!!!
Hi Melody!! Sorry I’m late responding but Kansas was a great experience! I will be back! Thank you so much :)!
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