Farm to Fork

Classic? Yes. Boring? Never.

Give us all the caprese with fresh local tomoatos!

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When a seven-time James Beard Award nominee asks you to cater a special occasion for her family, you say yes!

It was an honor to cook for Chef Kathy Cary and her guests. This Tomatillo Soup is Kathy's recipe. It's a perfect summer soup served chilled or room temperature. It's garnished with avocado, sour cream and cilantro oil.

Thank you, Kathy, for all you have done over the years to support the farm-to-table movement, and for including us in your family's event. It was an honor!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Peak produce season in Kentucky! Visit the link below from Kentucky Proud to find a market nearest you! To find the market closest to you, click "See All Results" and filter to "Near Me.

Share your favorite farmers market purchases in the comments this weekend!

https://www.kyproud.com/programs/farmers-markets

And for our Indiana friends:
https://www.gosoin.com/things-to-do/local-flavor/farmers-markets/

Summer tomatoes are here and they have invaded our new summer box lunch menu!

🍅 BLTM Sandwiches
🍅 Caprese Sandwiches
🍅 Summer Chopped Salad
🍅 Tomato, Cucumber and Onion Salad
🍅 And more!

Check out the summer box lunch menu and place your order today!

https://www.farmtoforkfood.com/box-lunches

While we don't cater weddings anymore, we do still love the opportunity to be a part of a beautifully curated social event!

This stunning birthday celebration was designed and produced by Simply Sara O. It took place at the beautiful Gaffney House on the Ohio River.

The dreamy drink station featured gorgeous crystal drinkware from . It's our favorite drink station to date!

Venue: Luxury Rentals Louisville

Thanks for including us in this fabulous event!

I just wanted to pop in to say hello in case you're new around here!

My name is Sherry Hurley, and I founded Farm to Fork Catering in 2008. I grew up on Kentucky Lake in rural Western Kentucky where my family tended a large summer garden and gathered at the table every night for a home-cooked meal.

That experience made me passionate about Kentucky, locally sourced ingredients, creating surprise and delight when people try our simple but delicious food. My wonderful team and I love making people feel at home through warm Southern hospitality.

Learn more and join our email list at farmtoforkfod.com. You can be the first to know about special events and receive yummy seasonal recipes straight to your inbox!

We hope to see you around one of our tables very soon!

Join us Saturday, June 8 to experience the magic of local organic agriculture with a tour of Rootbound Farm, a working organic farm, followed by an inspired dinner and drinks curated by us! Dine al fresco with friends under the big farm sky as we savor the bounty of the harvest.

𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒖:

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿𝘀
Smoked Trout Deviled Egg
White Bean, Kale, Rosemary Garlic Crostini

𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿
Fattoush Salad - Lettuce Mix, Cucumber, Roasted Beets, Radish, Pomegranate Molasses Sumac Dressing, Pita Crisps
Middle Eastern Slow Cooked Herbed Leg of Lamb
Rice with Spinach, Lemon, Feta, Pine Nuts
Orrechiette, Broccolini, Garlic Confit, Parmesan
Grilled Zucchini and Summer Squash with Dukkah, Fresh Herbs, Lime-Tahini Sauce
Blue Dog Bakery Bread, Whipped Butter

𝗗𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘁
Buttermilk Fennel Panna Cotta, Apricot, Candied Fennel

Get all the details and purchase your tickets here. Limited availability so don't delay!
https://rootbound-farm.square.site/product/farm-to-table-dinner-at-rootbound-farm/176?cs=true&cst=custom

These bright little lemon curd tartlets are the perfect spring sweet! Add them to your next event. Your guests will love them!

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In addition to using as many locally-sourced ingredients as possible, our food is always fresh, beautiful and delicious!

Fill out an inquiry form for your next event at farmtoforkfood.com! We would love to serve your guests.

🍓🥬 It's Farmers Market Season! 🥕🥒

Courier Journal published a wonderful guide to 30 Louisville-area farmers markets that you don't want to miss! You can also find a full list of area farmers markets at kyproud.com

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/life/food/2024/05/07/louisville-farmers-markets-2024-a-look-at-what-markets-are-open/73259571007/

Let's support our local farmers and artisans! The above photos is my (Sherry) personal haul from the Douglas Loop Farmers Market this weekend!

Kentucky Proud

It takes many hands to cater events and even more during Derby week. We are so grateful for everyone who played a part in Derby 150! This year's epic team included veteran and former employees, long time event staff, new team members, friends, spouses, and one of our moms! Our Derby team collectively put in hundreds of hours to provide delicious food, excellent beverages, and hospitality to over 600 guests in a 3-day period. Amazing!

*Special shout out to Sara and her daughter for keeping us nourished by delivering healthy lunch on two of our longest days of prep.

We kicked off Derby week with a Welcome Dinner for out of town guests at the Waterfront Botanical Gardens featuring gorgeous linens and place settings by In Good Company.

🌸 We created a fun twist on a traditional wedge salad, by substituting gem lettuce wedges, roasted corn, cherry tomatoes, radishes and a tahini green goddess dressing.

🌸 The main course was a Southern play on surf and turf with beef tenderloin from Black Hawk Farms featuring a signature bourbon steak sauce, Barr Farms local asparagus, Weisenberger Mill grits and succotash.

🌸 Dessert was a flourless chocolate cake with Angel's Envy Rye Whiskey whipped cream and raspberry coulis.

It was a beautiful evening we were grateful to be a part of!

So much delight in one pretty bite! These flavorful little beauties are Shrimp Remoulade on Endive with a Pea Shoot. They are a perfect passed app for any spring event!

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We posted about Ramps (wild spring onions) a couple of weeks ago and sent out a newsletter that has a recipe that calls for ramps. Foxhollow Farm may be sold out. However, Rootbound Farm will have the last harvest tomorrow at Douglass Loop Farmers Market
Get them before they are gone!

Also, word on the street is that local strawberries and asparagus are now available at Douglass Loop Farmers Market and Bardstown Road Farmers Market

Happy Spring Eating!

Love this time of year when the whole city is buzzing in preparation for Derby festivities! Our kitchen has been buzzing, too! Can't wait to serve hundreds of our Signature Country Ham, Pepper Jelly, Pimento Cheese Biscuits and Bourbon Brownies next week!

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Book club? Baby or Bridal Shower? Cocktail Party?

We've got you covered with our new party trays! Coming soon in time for Mother's Day and Graduation parties!

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘂 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲𝘀:

▪️ Signature Country Ham, Pepper Jelly, Pimento Cheese Biscuits
▪️ Chicken Salad Croissants
▪️ Southern Duo with Pimento Cheese and Benedictine Spreads
▪️ Elevated Crudité with Green Goddess Dip
▪️ Classic Cheese Tray
▪️ Charcuterie and Cheese Tray
▪️ Seasonal Salad

Party trays will be available for delivery or pickup. Stay tuned for online ordering available soon at farmtoforkfood.com!

Thank you so much to Foxhollow Farm for having the Farm to Fork team out for a ramp harvesting hike yesterday morning. The waterfalls were rushing from all the rain, and it was a beautiful morning of enjoying the beauty of our Kentucky landscape.

We have big plans for our ramps including pickling the bulbs just in time for Derby charcuterie grazing stations and using the leaves to make ramp pesto and ramp compound butter.

If you're not familiar with ramps, they are a type of wild allium that are similar to spring onions and leeks. They have a garlicky onion flavor. They grow in the spring in wooded areas in America throughout the Northeast, South and Midwest. They thrive in rocky woodland soils and shady, wet environments.

If you find some to harvest, consider leaving some of the bulbs in the ground so they can grow back next year!

Don't forget to join us tomorrow for a pop-up Derby Hostess Gift shopping event featuring refreshments by Farm to Fork!

Some of our favorite local artisans and makers including Maizie Clarke, LLC, Lulu Papers, Kentucky Alchemy, In The Curious Kitchen, and Urban Bloom Container Garden will be selling loads of fabulous gifts for the season!

The details!

🗓 Saturday April 13 - 1pm - 5pm

In Good Company Rentals
112 Bauer Avenue
Louisville, KY 40207

We hope you can join us this Thursday or Saturday for a fun, two-day pop-up Derby Hostess Gift shopping event featuring refreshments by Farm to Fork!

Some of our favorite local artisans and makers including Maizie Clarke, LLC, Lulu Papers, Kentucky Alchemy, In The Curious Kitchen and Urban Bloom Container Garden will be selling loads of fabulous gifts for the season!

The details!
🗓 Thursday April 11 - 3pm - 7pm
🗓 Saturday April 13 - 1pm - 5pm

In Good Company Rentals
112 Bauer Avenue
Louisville, KY 40207

One of our favorite spring salads is now available on our box lunch menu! It features mixed salad greens, strawberries, toasted almonds, feta, and poppyseed vinaigrette with the option to add grilled chicken. Also available for any catering menu!

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This gem of a find on my (Sherry) recent East Coast trip deserves its own appreciation post! We stumbled upon this fabulous woman-owned butcher shop and restaurant called Roma’s Butchery in South Royalton, Vermont. Ironically, we had vegetarian meals, but they were delightful! I had the BEST roasted vegetable sandwich and my friend had the mushroom toast. Check it out if you ever find yourself in the area!

We recently discovered Barnes Farms and Milling Company's fabulous products like this Blue Claridge Stone Ground Cornmeal. We met them at the Organic Association of Kentucky conference. We've been sampling their products and love them! They are from Salem, Kentucky, where they grow and mill the best quality heirloom and ancient grains. Check them out!

I (Sherry) recently snuck away for a long weekend to Boston and Vermont to visit one of my dearest friends. We had the best time checking out some local attractions and - of course - local eats! We visited the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, hello Monet! And the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which was beautiful. In Vermont, we visited the King Arthur Baking Company flagship campus. It was as amazing and overwhelming as you would think it would be with its bakery, cafe, and retail store. The botanical thumbprint cookies were delish! I am grateful for this special time with my friend before the spring catering madness really begins!

We hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful weather in their green today! We do our best to be green all year long as sustainability is important to our company values! We use eco-friendly materials such as these pressed-palm serving trays when the occasion calls for disposables.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀💚

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Being a farmer or a caterer is an all-weather job! We began making rounds earlier this week picking up the goods for the Organic Association of Kentucky's (OAK) Annual Farming Conference! I (Sherry) picked up a carload of butternut squash from Ann at Elmwood Stock Farm for a 3-cheese butternut squash pasta we will serve conference attendees! ❄️☃️

We love participating in this event that allows us to both support and feed local farmers and producers!