Quady Dessert Competition 2006

18th Annual Quady Dessert Competition
Finalists and Photos

1st Place
Scarlett Smith - North West Culinary Academy of Vancouver – 'Poached pear tart'

Silver

Penny Kwan - Fairmont Hotel Vancouver - 'Dancing Pear'
Tom Lee - Thomas Haas Fine Chocolates - 'White chocolate almond tart'
Sammi Leung - Pan Pacific Hotel - 'Rosemary parfait'
Junichi Nakatani - Fairmont Chateau Whistler - 'Chocolate citrus delight'

Bronze

Laurent Bernard - Fairmont Chateau Whistler - 'Harmony'
Shinje Cho - North West Culinary Academy of Vancouver - 'Salted pecan financier with orange mousse'
Rui Hou - Pan Pacific Hotel - 'Baked chocolate cake, dark chocolate cylinder filled with orange gelée
Masako Karaki - Fairmont Chateau Whistler - 'Sign of Spring'
Victor Pulleyblank - Blue Water Cafe & Raw Bar - 'Spring Melodie'

Honourable Mention
Leanne Bentley/Stacy Cherewyk - Sutton Place Hotel - 'Hazelnut Pear Terrine'
Shiela DeVilla - Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina - 'Pistachio crusted frangipane torte'
Simon McNeil - AI - Dubrulle Culinary Arts - 'Goats cheese waffle cone with rose water and elderflower'

Saturday Entries
Harmony Bronze Laurent Bernard - Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort Bitter chocolate mousse, walnut daquoise, apricot maceration, chocolate sablee Breton served with a vanilla apricot sauce	Sign of Spring Bronze Masako Karaki - Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort Dark chocolate mousse dome holding sour cream lemon mousse and raspberry compote inside, sitting on pecan brownie and served wth orange and raspberry caramel sauce	Sweet Temptation Steve Tran - AI-Dubrulle Culinary Arts Bittersweet chocolate mousse, Joconde cake, lemon scented creme anglaise and basil/mint sauce
Welbert Choi - O'Doul's Cream cheese sponge with white chocolate misu; apricot orange salpicon, lemon coconut sauce, almond crisp	Shinje Cho - North West Culinary Academy of Vancouver Bronze Salted pecan finacier with orange mousse, sauteed apples, milk foam and brown rice tea sherbet	Shiela DeVilla - Westin Bayshore Resort and Marina Honourable Mention Pistachio crusted frangipane torte, double chocolate mille-feuille and peach gelee
Summer Sea Trio Nadia Durig - Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise Essensia served three ways with a chocolate orange mousse	Jakob Gundy - Terminal City Club White chocolate bavarois with a chai creme brulee and passion fruit curd and pecan nougatine	Spring Daisy Lai - Vancouver Community College Brie white chocolate cheesecake over a layer of pistachio meringue and apricot jellyroll
Yannick Mangin - Vancouver Community College Apricot and almond milk creme brulee	Shona Pearson - Vancouver Aquarium 24 karat chocolate tart with golden gelee	Simon McNeil - AI- Dubrulle Culinary Arts Honourable Mention Goats cheese waffle cone with rose water and elderflower
Winter Sunset Tricia Yen - Sweet Obsession White chocolate mousse on a shortbread crisp filled with a combination of grapefruit, blood oranges and tangelos in syrup. Accompanied by an apple crisp and rasberry coulis	Dancing Pear Silver Penny Kwan - Fairmont Hotel Vancouver Roasted pear mousse accented with candied fennel, meringue, almond tuile and orange muscat sauce	Chocolate Citrus Delight Silver Junichi Nakatani - Fairmont Chateau Whistler Orange gateau with ice wine cream cheese mousse and plain bitter chocolate mousse, strawberry chili sauce, orange cardamom sauce
Sunday Entries
Judges at work Last year's 1st Place winner Fumiko Moreton, included in the judges' panel for the first time - the beginning of a tradition	Spring Melodie Bronze Victor Pulleyblank - Blue Water Cafe and Raw Bar Blood orange compote with a blood orange foam, passion fruit mousse and croquant. Dark chocolate torte,cassis blood orange sorbet	Devil May Orange Shaya Sy - West Blood orange devil's food cake with ginger crisps, blood orange and cream cheese mousses, honey roasted blood orange segments
Leanne Bentley & Stacy Cherewyk - Sutton Place Hotel Honourable Mention Hazelnut and pear mousse terrine with milk chocolate hazelnut crunch, and almond daquoise, accompanied by poaced pear and caramel ice cream on a phyllo nest	1st Place Scarlett Smith - North West Culinary Academy of Vancouver Hibiscus poached pear and pistachio cream tart, bay leaf panna cotta and granite	Lisa Ip - Fish House in Stanley Park Kumquat and blood orange mousse, creme caramel mousse, creme caramel and milk ganache served with dark carmel balsamic sauce and cinnamon yoghurt anglaise sauce
Citrio Blair Codling - Heron's at The Fairmont Waterfront Orange poppy seed souffle witha warm chocolate veined blood orange custard and a baby mandarin espum with pomegranate in a blueberry purse	Gilino San Diego - Granville Room Grapefruit and tarragon sabayon chocolate tart, grapefruit and gold flake chew	Tom Lee - Thomas Haas Fine Chocolates Silver White chocolate cream, almond financier, pineapple compote, pink grapefruit sorbet, fresh passion fruit, orange confit, vanilla and star anise
Tangerine Dream Della Kenward - Bridges Tangerine cream layered with carmel mousse with almond sponge and tangerine sorbet	Crescent Masaki Aoyama - Independant Orange mousse layered with white chocolate mousse	Sammi Leung - Pan Pacific Hotel Silver Rosemary parfait with lingonberry compote and apricot mousse, lavender lime sauce, mango passion fruit sorbet
Rui Hou - Pan Pacific Hotel Bronze Baked chocolate cake with orange sugar garnish, dark chocolate cylinder filled with orange gelee. Orange foam and mixed puzzle sorbet	An Essence of Space Kirsten Sheppard - Sheraton Wall Centre Candied citrus planet witha a melting white chocolate nucleus, surrounded by an almond cheddar ring lost in wild blackberry and vanilla mango galaxies along the milky way	Jonah Snitman - Independant Meyer lemon and orange cheesecake with candied ginger shortbread crust and honey orange sauce
Erin Vickars - Rex Rotisserie & Grill Gogonzola cheesecake with chocolate walnut crust and blood orange confit	Shiela de Villa and Rowell del Rosario - Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina ...timing is important	Nadia Durig - Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise ...waiting to go

THANK YOU TO ALL COMPETITORS AND THEIR ESTABLISHMENTS!

~ CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE ~