Kentucky Recipes and Food

Chocolate chips and walnuts are among the ingredients in this traditional Kentucky horse race pie. Use a frozen pie crust to make this pie, or choose your own favorite pie pastry recipe for a one crust pie.

Here are some of my picks for a Derby Day celebration, including Kentucky favorites and traditional recipes.

A Kentucky jam cake with blackberry jam, raisins or dates, spices, and a caramel or cream cheese frosting. A delicious spice cake with jam, from Kentucky.

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An old-fashioned Kentucky pudding recipe, made with spices, jam, and other ingredients.

A Kentucky recipe, grilled asparagus is first marinated in a mixture of garlic, dill weed, and lemon.

Mint julep recipe for the Kentucky Derby. A Kentucky mint julep recipe.

A traditional Kentucky favorite, this is a version of the race day pie. Kentucky pie recipe with chocolate chips and pecans, along with bourbon and butter.

Grilled beef tenderloin recipe, Kentucky style, with Henry Bain Sauce. A beef tenderloin recipe for the grill.

Cheese garlic grits recipe. A wonderful dish that is a favorite for Derby Day Brunch, or use as a side dish at any meal.

A popular Kentucky dip, benedictine is a cucumber and cream cheese dip colored with green food coloring. Benedictine can be used as a dip or spread for sandwiches or canapes.

Kentucky burgoo recipe with chicken and beef, along with vegetables.

Ham biscuits recipe, made with Kentucky country ham and biscuit ingredients.

Bourbon marinade and bourbon glaze, for baked chicken or turkey pieces. Bourbon recipes.

A Kentucky bourbon pie with pecans and brown sugar filling with a little bourbon. Bourbon pecan pie recipe.

Bourbon balls recipe, made with bourbon, vanilla wafer cookies, cocoa, pecans, and powdered sugar. Bourbon balls, a popular Kentucky treat, along with related candy recipes.

Mint julep recipe with Kentucky bourbon and sugar, along with ice and mint.

This hot brown sandwich, a Kentucky specialty, comes from Nick Sundberg of Kentucky's Beaumont Inn.

Recipe from Nick Sundberg of Beaumont Inn, Kentucky. A Kentucky burgoo recipe.

Kentucky jam cake with blackberry jam, buttermilk, spices, pecans, and chopped dates or raisins. A Kentucky jam cake recipe with chopped pecans and dates or raisins.

About Kentucky food, with recipes for Artichoke Dip, Dead Heat Kentucky Burgoo, Kentucky Apple Fried Pies, Kentucky-Style Ham in Cream, Spinach Salad with Apple-Onion Vinaigrette, and Strawberry Julep.

The Kentucky history of this all-American spirit, along with several recipes using bourbon. Bourbon balls, pies, cakes, bourbon chicken, mint julep, and more.

Another version of Kentucky's famous chocolate chip and pecan pie.

Here's Kentucky's famous big stew, burgoo. This burgoo recipe contains stew meat, chicken, tomatoes, potatoes, corn, okra, butterbeans, and more.

This recipe for basic southern fried chicken and cream gravy comes from Kentucky.

A classic corn pudding made with white corn, eggs, flour, milk, sugar, salt, and butter.

Henry Bain was the Head Waiter at Louisville's Pendennis Club. He created this sauce which became a Derby & year round Louisville favorite with beef.

This is a recipe for Kentucky ham with mushrooms, a seasoned creamy homemade sauce, and a little parsley.

Kentucky jam cake with blackberry jam, buttermilk, cinnamon and allspice and pecans. A Kentucky jam cake recipe with pineapple and raisins and pecans.

These individual pies are made with dried apples with butter and cinnamon.

This version of the famous Kentucky sandwich is made with turkey breast slices, tomatoes, bacon, adn a Swiss cheese sauce.

Pecan pie recipe with eggs, pecans, corn syrup , dark brown sugar, butter, and vanilla. A Kentucky pecan pie recipe.

About the Beaumont Inn with recipes from Executive Chef Nick Sundberg: Burgoo, Kentucky Hot Brown, Beaumont Inn Corn Pudding, Smoked Sausage Mushrooms, and Bread Pudding With Bourbon Sauce.

The cookbook Derby Entertaining, with a sampling of recipes for Chicken Noodle Bake, Grilled Orange Roughy Margarita, Out of the Gate Ham Biscuits, Winning Ticket Lemon Bars, and Strawberry-Lemonade Punch.

Great recipes and links from Horseracing Guide Cindy Pierson.

Ideas for planning your Derby party, from Donna Pilato.

The latest Derby and horseracing news from Cindy Pierson.

From David Sweet, where to find campsites in Kentucky.

All about Kentucky's own "burgoo" with several recipes.

Make these delicious open-faced turkey, tomato, cheese, and bacon sandwiches for Derby day, or serve any day of the week for lunch or dinner. A great sandwich to make for any meal.

Information and history on Kentucky cuisine, with a special selection of recipes from Nick Sundberg, Executive Chef of Beaumont Inn, Harrodsburg, Kentucky.