Ladies – would you like to know how to eat well in mid-life? Join Kilkenny native Catherine O’Keeffe, ‘The Wellness Warrior’ for a live event to discuss lifestyle and nutrition in mid-life, looking in particular at foods to help women achieve hormonal balance. As a live event, there will be lots of opportunity to ask questions and get some interesting banter going! This event will be broadcast via Zoom – see our social channels for the link.
| Time | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 8pm | 23rd November | Eating Well in Mid life with Catherine O Keeffe |
Cook with John Kelly, Michelin Star Chef, Mount Juliet Estate
| Time | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
8pm | 30th November | Duncannon Salmon, lemon radish and cucumber |
8pm | 7th December | Roast Cod, cauliflower, lemon, baby gem |
8pm | 14th December | Roast Duncannon Scallops, seaweed butter sauce, radish and cucumber |
8pm | 21st December | Kilkenny Rose Veal, parsley mushroom sauce |
Join our much-loved festival matriarch and queen of cooking Anne Neary from Ryeland House Cookery School who will make sure that our Christmas 2020 is a culinary doddle! To ease us all into the festive season, Anne will show us how being prepared will make Christmas cooking a more relaxed, enjoyable experience! So get your apron ready and join her in preparing for Christmas 2020!
| Time | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 3pm | 10 November | Simmer and Stir Christmas Cake |
| 3pm | 17 November | Fruity Christmas Pudding with Brandy and Ginger Butter |
| 3pm | 24 November | Christmas Vegetables - Braised Red Cabbage / Brussels Sprouts with Chili & Lemon |
| 3pm | 01 December | Flaky Pastry all-butter Mince Pies |
| 3pm | 08 December | Red Currant Glazed Ham and Herby Stuffing |
| 3pm | 15 December | Hot Potato & Salmon Starter Also Brie/Parma Bites for pre-dinner drinks |
| 3pm | 22 December | Tipsy Raspberry Cream Trifle and Chocolate Meringue |
From presenting his weekly radio chat show on KCLR to lecturing in Culinary Arts at WIT and appearing as a regular on TV 3, Edward’s effervescent, engaging personality has anchored Savour Kilkenny Food Festival since it was started in 2006. It is therefore no surprise that our 10 week Savour Online programme has a huge following for Edward’s weekly cookery demonstrations. Featuring everything that is great about Kilkenny ingredients, Edward will bring us through the winter with his nutritious and delicious dishes with lots of laughs along the way!
| Time | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 7pm | 04 November | Let's Eat Kilkenny - Winter warming Kilkenny Beef & Riversfield Vegetable Stew |
| 7pm | 11 November | Let's Eat Kilkenny - Iced Apple & Pastry Buns with Highbank Orchard syrup |
| 7pm | 18 November | Let's Eat Kilkenny - Cream of Riversfield potato, leek & kale soup with crispy Callan bacon and cheese straws |
| 7pm | 25 November | Let's Eat Kilkenny - Goat's Cheese tartlets made using delicious Dizzy Farm Cheese from Stoneyford, Riversfield Red Onion and Mooncoin Beetroot. Yum! |
| 7pm | 02 December | Edward Hayden Cookery Demonstration - Let's Eat Kilkenny |
| 7pm | 09 December | Edward Hayden Cookery Demonstration - Let's Eat Kilkenny |
| 7pm | 16 December | Edward Hayden Cookery Demonstration - Let's Eat Kilkenny |
| 7pm | 23 December | Edward Hayden Cookery Demonstration - Let's Eat Kilkenny |
| 7pm | 30 December | Edward Hayden Cookery Demonstration - Let's Eat Kilkenny |
| 7pm | 06 January | Edward Hayden Cookery Demonstration - Let's Eat Kilkenny |
With a combined experience of almost 20 years in the nutrition and wellness field, Beoga Nutrition owners Jenny White and Linda Murray provide solutions that help their clients achieve long term health goals by creating individual nutritional and lifestyle plans.
Join Jenny and Linda for Savour online as they take you on a whistle-stop tour of food health and wellness topics. Enjoy!
| Time | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 8pm | 5 November | How to increase energy levels - 5 important basics to get right to improve your energy |
| 8pm | 12 November | Immune Health & Vitamin D - Why is Vitamin D so important and what practical things can you do to help support your immune system? |
| 8pm | 19 November | Digestion & Gut Health - Practical, science-based advice to improve your gut health. Because a healthy gut means a healthy you. |
| 8pm | 26 November | Mood Food - An overview of the complex ways in which what we eat influences our brain, mood, and mental health. |
| 8pm | 03 December | Intermittent Fasting - What is it and how can it help? |
| 8pm | 10 December | Eat the Rainbow - The Science of Colorful, Plant-Based Food and practical ways to “Eat the Rainbow”. |
| 8pm | 17 December | Sleep - Sleep your way to success! What can help, and what can hinder our sleep. |
| 8pm | 24 December | Smart Food Swaps & Snacks to improve your health - Simple tweaks to boost your nutrition that taste great. |
| 8pm | 31 December | Preparing for the New Year - Achievable habits to bring into the New Year. |
| 8pm | 7 January | Put a Spring in your step - New season, new foods, new habits. |
. For Savour Online we have invited some of Ireland’s fantastic healthy eating advocates to share recipes and information with us. These great people will help to inspire us to keep our eating ‘clean’ and healthy before the Christmas season kicks-in!
Expect much diversity in the contributions as and join in on our free video demonstrations on all our social media channels at the published time or if you miss them don’t worry – just head over to our YouTube channel. Enjoy!
| Time | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
3pm | 19 November | Sinead Delahunty - 'Delalicious' - Healthy Winter Spice Apple Pancakes - Video Demonstration |
3pm | 26 November | Karen Cryan - Extra Virgin Olive Oil Taster and Sommelier- Olive Oil Insights! - Video Demonstration |
3pm | 03 December | Finn Ni Fhaolain - Gluten Free Cooking - Recipe |
Every year for the past 14 years, Savour Kilkenny has welcomed chefs from all over Ireland and beyond to the marble city for our marvellous fun food festival. We are honored that so many of Ireland’s finest culinary creatives are happy to join in our online journey to keep the festival food flame burning!
| Time | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 7pm | 13 November | Rory O'Connell |
| 7pm | 20 November | Kevin Dundon |
| 7pm | 27 November | JP McMahon |
| 7pm | 04 December | Darina Allen |
| 7pm | 11 December | Jeeny Maltese |
| 7pm | 18 December | Paul Flynn |
| 7pm | 08 January | Gary O'Hanlon |
| 7pm | 15 January | Arun Kapil |
Kids just love the ‘Cool Food School’ with Deirdre Doyle who has a passion for healthy eating and loves to share it with kids. Tune into her fantastic Savour online workshops every Saturday morning!
| Time | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 10am | 07 November | Chicken nuggets and dip |
| 10am | 14 November | Hummus and pitta chips |
| 10am | 21 November | Tasty tomato bruschetta |
| 10am | 28 November | Oat pancakes with chia seed jam |
| 10am | 05 December | Santa’s favourite cinnamon granola |
| 10am | 12 December | Date & Peanut Butter reindeers and strawberry Santa’s |
| 10am | 19 December | Power-balls for Santa |
| 10am | 9 January | Easy flapjacks |
| 10am | 16 January | Chocolate peanut banana bite & delicious smoothies |
Kilkenny Lions Club has supported St Vincent de Paul and other charities in Kilkenny at Christmas for the past 20 years. With their fundraising efforts severley affected due to Covid19, Savour online are helping Kilkenny Lions to raise funds by organising virtual wine tastings in association with ‘The Wine Centre’, John Street.
Enjoy four weeks of virtual wine tasting each Saturday evening at 8pm on Savour Kilkenny’s facebook and instagram pages where wine experts will talk you through the tasting notes for two wines each evening.
Purchase the two wines for the wine tasting from The Wine Centre for €25 and €6.50 or 25% of your purchase goes directly to the Kilkenny Lions Club.
If you want to watch the wine tasting but don’t want to buy the wines, that’s fine too! Please try to donate something to the charity on their page – http://www.gofundme.com/f/lionsforsvp
| Time | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
8pm | 28 November | MC Harriet Tindal, Master of Wines from Tindal Wines Cork. Tasting Pinot Grigio de Venezie 2019 and Valpolicella Superiore 2017 |
| 8pm | 05 December | Wine for Lions’ - Online Wine Tastings |
| 8pm | 12 December | Wine for Lions’ - Online Wine Tastings |
| 8pm | 19 December | Wine for Lions’ - Online Wine Tastings |
We are delighted to be joined by Laura Gannon for ‘Cakeface for Kids’ every Sunday morning to show our kids how to make delicious simple sweet treats. Mums and Dads can join in too! So, get your aprons and ingredients ready and join this very talented lady who is now making some of the most cutting edge sweet treats in Ireland. Cakeface patisserie and FACE2 cafe, set up by pastry chef couple Laura and Rory Gannon, followed years of working with some of the best pastry teams in France and London. Such a fantastic addition to the Kilkenny food scene.
| Time | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 10am | 08 November | Simply Scones |
| 10am | 15 November | Cakeface Nutella, Peanut & Nut butters |
| 10am | 22 November | Chocolate Truffles |
| 10am | 29 November | Shortcrust Pastry |
| 10am | 06 December | Frangipane & Tart fillings |
| 10am | 13 December | Macarons |
| 10am | 20 December | Ginger bread, Cookies & Shortbreads |
Get an insight and understanding of our Kilkenny farms and farmers who are at the forefront of putting quality food products into our processing plants and ultimately into our shops and homes. Hear from some of our food producers who skillfully combine great ingredients to make innovative food products. For Savour online, Kilkenny woman Siobhan Donohoe, who was raised on the Kilbline pedigree beef and dairy farm in Bennettsbridge will be chatting to our progressive Kilkenny food producers who will share their stories and inspire our Savour Kilkenny audiences.
| Time | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 3pm | 15 Nov | Vincent Grace, Riverfield Farm - Vegetable Grower |
| 3pm | 22 Nov | Julie Calderpotts - Highbank Orchards - Apple Growers & Producers of Syrup, Vinegar, Gin, Whiskey, Cider! |
| 3pm | 29 Nov | Morgan Ging, Ballykeefe Distillery - Gin, Whiskey and Beef Producers |
| 3pm | 06 Dec | Mary Teehan -Truffle Fairy Chocolates |
| 3pm | 13 Dec | Bartosz Surman - Dizzy Goat Farm |
| 3pm | 20 Dec | Jim Mulhall - Danville Dairy Farm |
| 3pm | 27 Dec | Bob & Joan Cahill - Bob & Joan's Juicy Jams |
| 3pm | 03 Jan | Ger Kirwan - Goatsbridge Trout Farm |
| 3pm | 10 Jan | Julian Hughes - Hughes's Farm |
| 3pm | 17 Jan | Sean Ring - Rings Organic Chicken |
There is an incredible array of restaurants, cafes and food shops in Kilkenny and the diverse food scene leaves us ‘spoiled for choice’.
For Savour online we have invited Kilkenny food outlets to tell us what they have to offer and to showcase their food business. See some mouth watering photos of the food on offer and hear from our fantastic local chefs, cooks and proprietors..in their own unique way, they will show you what makes their food special.
| Date | Business |
|---|---|
| 04-Nov | Aroi |
| 05-Nov | Avalon Hotel |
| 06-Nov | Mise enPlace Video |
| 06-Nov | Barrow’s Keep |
| 07-Nov | Butcher |
| 08-Nov | Burger Factory |
| 09-Nov | Kyteler's Inn |
| 10-Nov | Indique |
| 10-Nov | Kilkenny Design |
| 11-Nov | La Trattoria |
| 12-Nov | La Rivista |
| 13-Nov | Langtons |
| 13-Nov | Bridies - Video |
| 14-Nov | Mise en Place |
| 15-Nov | The Limetree |
| 15-Nov | Lana |
| 16-Nov | Lemongrass |
| 17-Nov | Mount Juliet |
| 18-Nov | Shimla Indian |
| 19-Nov | Muse - Video |
| 19-Nov | Fragola |
| 20-Nov | Cafe la Coco |
| 21-Nov | FACE2 - Video |
| 22-Nov | Cookie Co-op |
| 22-Nov | Truffles |
| 23-Nov | Zuni |
| 24-Nov | Aran |
| 25-Nov | Royal Spice |
| 26-Nov | Primo |
| Date | Business |
|---|---|
| 27 November | Pizza Bellissima |
| 28 November | Foodworks |
| 29 November | Kyteler’s Inn |
| 30 November | Newpark Hotel |
| 1 December | The Grapevine |
| 2 December | Blaa Blaa Blaa |
| 3 December | Kilkenny Design Centre Video |
| 4 December | Cafe 2 |
| 5 December | Cakeface |
| 6 December | Glendine Inn |
| 7 December | Kafe Katz |
| 8 December | Kilkenny Golf Club |
| 9 December | Knockdrinna Cafe |
| 10 December | Ladi’s Chimney Cakes |
| 11 December | Marble City Tearooms |
| 12 December | Orange Cafe |
| 13 December | Quench Coffee Bar |
| 14 December | Saburritos |
| 15 December | Sam’s, High Street |
| 16 December | Sullivan’s Taproom |
| 17 December | Tess’s Homestyle Baking |
| 18 December | The Blackberry Café |
| 19 December | The Cathedral Café |
| 20 December | The Cutting Vedge |
| 21 December | The Gourmet Store |
| 22 December | The House of Pretzels |
| 23 December | The Yard Cafe |