About

Hi, thanks for visiting Urban Whisk! I’m Irene and I do all the photography, the cooking and my family are the taste testers. When I’m not cooking or baking I create pottery as you can see in my Instagram feed.  Having two girls, I thought this was a great way to catalogue all of my recipes and most of my mother’s recipes for my girls who are now cooking on their own. I have a weakness for dessert so I bake A LOT! With a European background I routinely make stuff like Borscht and Pierogies, my husband makes the cheese fondue dinners, something he grew up with.
I’m a former farmer, a self-taught potter and I have a diploma in web design. I am lucky to be able to work from home updating websites and I love my job, although the dental plan sucks, LOL.
Farming had its pros and cons, Mother Nature could be really cruel sometimes. The soil here is referred to by some as black gold, but who knows we might try organic farming in the future if there’s any farmland left by then. All around us bits and pieces of land is being taken for subdivisions and extra roads.
In my pottery days I used to love going to local craft shows, but I needed a new challenge so I went to school for web design. That’s where the whole idea of blogging started, not for the sake of making money but for sharing things I love on the World Wide Web. I’ve taken quite a few courses over my lifetime. I suppose it’s some sort of need to learn new things or maybe I get bored.
I started using Blogger to host my blog, but it was very restricting, so I transferred my blog to another host and started using WordPress, I was amazed at all the plugins offered to do almost anything you want and no complicated code is needed.
I recently bought a Canon T4i and I love it! Not many of my pictures are magazine quality, but the recipes are darn good, I don’t post a recipe unless I am thoroughly pleased with the result, sometimes I remake and tweak certain recipes until the result is fabulous. I guess its my personality type, I’m never satisfied until its perfect.