The Five Best Food Trucks in Louisville
Louisville's favorite food trucks
It's no surprise that Louisville's food truck scene is prospering. Add a cool city where folks work hard and love to support local business to an already exciting foodie culture, and you've got a fantastic environment for food trucks to prosper! Here are five HerKentucky faves.
5. Longshot Lobsta There are legitimately times when nothing other than a lobster roll will do. This Louisville favorite brings lobster rolls to a parking lot near you!
Black Rock Grille sets up shop Downtown.
4. Sweet 'N Savory Honestly, if you can get a hot brown crepe and a mint julep gelato from one truck, what else do you need in life?
Sophie loves Food Truck visits!
3. Black Rock Grille. Follow the delicious aroma of sizzling burgers through downtown, and you'll wind up at Black Rock!
2. Traveling Kitchen You have no idea how much you need a Korean taco in your life until you actually eat one.
1. Hi-Five Doughnuts. I love their doughnuts, and I love owners Annie and Leslie (and their truck Shelby!) even more. Their bourbon-caramel glaze is a must-try, as is their peanut butter glaze!
What's your favorite Louisville Food Truck?
Girls' Night Out with Karaoke Machine at Mercury Ballroom
Enter to win a girls night out with Karaoke Machine!
Have you ever dreamed of getting on stage with the band to sing your favorite song? Want to have your closest friends there to document it for their entire social media feeds to see?
Then you need to be at Louisville's Mercury Ballroom Saturday night, August 15, where Karaoke Machine is performing. You can go on stage and be the lead singer for the band; it's just like karaoke, only with live music!
We've partnered with Mercury Ballroom to provide a Girls' Night Out package for one lucky group of HerKentucky readers! Enter below to win a table of six for the Karaoke Machine show!
Check out the list of songs you can sing with the band here! (I've got to say, I'd be rocking Lita Ford and Prince, if I were up there!) Click here to buy tickets to the show.
Woodford Reserve + Original Makers Club Bourbon Tasting
HerKentucky's Heather C. Watson reviews the newest limited edition Distillery Series bourbons from Woodford Reserve.
Last night, my beau and I attended the Original Makers Club's tasting party for Woodford Reserve's Distillery Series bourbons. It was a perfect summer night for an outdoor party.
My shadow has big hair. Because, of course.
Woodford Reserve Master Distiller Chris Morris and Master Taster Elizabeth O'Neill led us through the proper tasting methods, including how to properly nose the aroma, why you don't give it a big swirl as you would with a wine tasting, and how to sip the whiskey for optimal taste.
I loved the Sweet Mash Redux. This bourbon had a really sweet, fruity up-front note that was extremely pleasant and reminiscent of an Irish whiskey. I'd recommend this for a fan of Bushmills or Jameson, anyone who loves fruity notes of apple, pear, or cherry, or those who often complain that bourbons have a harsh taste.
The second whiskey we sampled was Double Double Oaked. A variant of the popular Double Oaked label, this bourbon was aged an additional year. A lot of folks at the tasting detected deep, spicy notes in this one. At first, I found it very unstructured with a strong burn. However, when paired with the cheesecake samples we were provided, it was delightfully spicy against the brown sugar crust.
One of my favorite aspects of attending Woodford Reserve tastings is the way that they integrate food to influence flavors. They've developed a fascinating flavor wheel, and they always put great care into choosing food that works with a particular bourbon. Of course, it doesn't hurt when, like last night, the food was chosen by brilliant local chef Ouita Michel.
After the tasting, we moved to the lawn for drinks, snacks, music, and a fabulous display of basket charring.
My cousin Amy and her husband joined us for the festivities!
Chris and Elizabeth used hay from American Pharoah's stall to light the barrel, which was allowed to burn for seven seconds, leaving the barrel "toasted."
The air was filled with a magical scent of roasted marshmallows; it was such a fantastic sensory experience and really illustrated how the toasted barrels produce the rich, caramel-vanilla finish for which Woodford Reserve is known.
Thanks so much to Original Makers Club and Woodford Reserve for the fabulous party and delicious samples!
National Lipstick Day!
Kentucky bloggers discuss their signature lipstick shades and offer readers a chance to win a $20 Sephora gift card.
Today is National Lipstick Day, which got the HerKentucky girls talking about our own favorite shades. Most of us have, at some point, found that perfect shade. The one that makes us feel confident. The one that matches our skin tone just so. The one that makes us stand out.
As Peggy Olson said in the brilliant "Basket of Kisses" scene of Mad Men,
For most of us, that's true. There's THE ONE shade.
En route to this year's Final Four. At least I looked good for a miserable game.
For me, it's MAC's Dubonnet. It's a creamy matte burgundy red. It can be worn with casual ensembles and dressed up by mixing in some gloss. It doesn't overpower my fair skin like many reds do.
Glenda's signature shade is also a MAC red; she goes with Russian Red. Coincidentally, this classic shade was Madonna's go-to favorite in the 1980s and 90s.
Julie, our resident Beauty Addict, opts for BeautyCounter lip sheers because they look great and contain no lead. For Julie, there will always be some beautiful memories tied up in a classic lipstick tube:
“I still have a tube of my grandmother Alice’s Revlon Moon Drops lipstick. The name of the color has worn off (it’s pink), but it’s bright and vibrant and not to be ignored— just like she was.”
Wendy's go-to is Indian Rose, a stunning dusty pink shade, while Jennifer of A Girl Eats World likes to mix it up. She says, "I love Clinique Black Honey (dark purple close to my natural color), Nyx Chaos (bluish red for my fair skin), and Revlon Lollipop (fun bright pink)--I'm all about lipstick!"
Over on Bluegrass Redhead, Sarah included this sage piece of advice as among the 34 things she's learned in 34 years:
“Red lipstick is all the makeup you need.”
Jennifer R. has us all running to the beauty counter at Louisville's CirceSWAG, where in-house makeup genius Sloan Winters's brilliant recommendation has become her signature shade: "I have a shade of red, Aphrodite Red, that Sloan sold to me. It's sort of cheerleader red. People stop me to ask about the lipstick, and Sloan says they come in Circe to buy it. Friends give it to me on special occasions."
In a bar or restaurant, says Nikki of Coal Miner's Bride,
“It’s not hard to find a Kentucky woman in a bar. Look for a put-together lady with a lipstick stained glass of bourbon.”
We want to know your signature lipstick shade, and we want to give you a little gift to pick up a new favorite or an old reliable. HerKentucky is giving away two $20 gift cards to Sephora. You can enter to win the first one using our Rafflecopter widget below, and the second on our Instagram page!
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So, What Do You Do in a Tabata Class?
HerKentucky.com's Heather C. Watson walks you through a Tabata Class at B.You Fitness.
Now that I've increased the flexibility and range of motion that was previously impaired due to a back injury, my new goal is to sustain these benefits while adding in additional toning and weight loss. Of course, the most efficient way to achieve those benefits is through cardio interval training.
B.You's cardio interval classes are known as Tabata, Based on the findings of Japanese exercise scientist Izumi Tabata, these classes use 20 seconds of exercise followed by 10 seconds of rest in a cycle of eight. Participants engage in a series of intensive 20-second interval low-impact Tabata-specific/plyometric exercises that send the body right into the fat burning zone.
Let me tell you, it's extremely challenging. I honestly think that the last time I got my heart rate that high was in cheerleading camp. In the 1990s. The intervals are placed at the beginning of class, and then you "cool down" with a 45 minute barre class. I'm a mess when I'm finished, but I also feel like I've achieved an amazing workout. I hope to see y'all at a Tabata class soon!
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Sunday Breakfast with Garey Farms
Breakfast sourced with locally-raised eggs and bacon from Paris, KY's Garey Farms.
Friday night, I was excited to learn that I'd won a dozen eggs and a pound of bacon in Garey Farms' Instagram contest. I mean, farm-fresh eggs and bacon; who wouldn't love that?
I made plans to pick up my food at Garey Farms' booth at the St. Matthews Farmers Market. The Paris-based farm has booths at the Lexington Farmers Market, and at both St. Matthews and Douglass Loop Farmers Markets in Louisville. Garey also sources some of Kentucky's favorite restaurants, like Stella's Kentucky Deli, Table 310, and Corbett's.
Let me tell you, their produce and flowers were beautiful! My beau and I were pretty excited to make Sunday breakfast with our Garey Farms products!
The bacon and eggs were delicious! We rounded it out with some fresh berries and a French press or two.
Thanks so much to Garey Farms for the bacon and eggs! We'll be back to your Farmers Market booths soon!!
Original Makers Club + Woodford Reserve Distillery Series Launch Party
Reader discount for Woodford Reserve new product launch and cocktail party!
Raise your hand if you love summertime. And parties. And bourbon. And being the first to try a new bourbon.
Ok, so that was all of y'all, right?
Well, we've got some pretty exciting news. The Original Makers Club and Woodford Reserve are hosting a party Thursday night. Now, that in itself is enough cause for excitement. I mean, the OMC puts on a really good party. Then, you add in the fact that this is the first time that the public will be able to taste the new product in the Woodford Reserve Distillery Series. Oh, and did I mention there's a tasting menu by the brilliant local chef Ouita Michel? And that the party is at stunning Woodford Reserve Distillery?
Well, it still gets better. Because THE ORIGINAL MAKER'S CLUB IS OFFERING A SPECIAL DEAL TO HERKENTUCKY READERS! The tickets to the Tastemakers Event -- where you can be one of the first fifty people in the world to taste the new Woodford Reserve bourbon -- are usually $75 dollars, but HerKentucky readers can purchase them for only $35!
If you can't make it to the tasting, but still want to enjoy a summer cocktail party, you can purchase party tickets -- a $20 value -- for $10. The tastemakers event starts at 5:30 p.m., and the cocktail party starts at 6:30 p.m. Click here to purchase tickets; enter code HERKENTUCKY at checkout for half price tickets!!
Cheers and Happy Friday, y'all! I hope to see you at the Distillery next Thursday night!