Eurotoques #Youngchef2012 Jack O Keeffe

This i think is worth dusting the cobwebs off my keyboard for with 3 little babies under 5 & 60 hours a week cheffing, I don't get much time for keeping my blog up to date & tend to stick to micro blogging on twitter, but this has also been rightly neglected recently with the birth of my 10 week old son Riain. So here goes 1st blog post In a year & a bit. I will be leaving this afternoon for Dublin with our 19yr old commis chef @springfort Hall Country House Hotel Jack O Keeffe. Jack is a 2nd year culinary arts student in cit & the reason we are going to The Cooks Academy in Dublin is that Jack through hard work, determination & skill has qualified for the top 5 in the Eurotoques Young chef 2012 competition. The Theme of the competition this year is 5 chefs, 5 producers, 50 miles. Jack has choosen our friends & fellow northcork residents McCarthys Butchers Kanturk as his main producer as well as numerous other small independant producers in our locality. Tomorrow is the Media Launch of the Competition Final which will Take Place at a secret location at the end of November. I will be regularly updating all about Jacks progress in the competition with lots of links, photos & behind the scenes extras over the coming weeks via twitter, instagram & on Blogspot. Hope you follow & like all of us @springfort wish Jack every success in the coming weeks. In the picture is Jack with my son Keelan at the national ploughing championships where we warmed up the GoodFoodIreland Demo stage for Catherine Fulvio.