St. Ursula’s triumphs

A regular judge of this competition, Executive Chef, Michael Moore, said that first-placed winners, St. Ursula’s School is “always up there with the competition”; 

second-placed school, St. Winifred’s always does well in this type of competition because in addition to preparing the actual dishes, they always produce a written analysis giving a background of the various meals; while St. Leonard’s Boys’ performed very well considering it was their first time.

 

Debbie Pais, Food and Nutrition Teacher at St. Ursula’s School, said that their theme was “East meets West”. Their dishes were a Spicy Kingfish Pickle and they also made the accompanying dishes of Bakes and Naan; Shark with a lot of cilantro and ginger, which was the filling for their breadfruit roll which was called ‘Shark in a Blanket’; and Flying Fish Pâté with Spicy Bajan Cherry in a Phyllo Pastry parcel.

 

St. Ursula’s had nine students who participated in the competition and they were hoping to repeat their win from two years ago, which they obviously accomplished. Speaking on behalf of the nine-member team, Leigh Johnson said that it was smooth sailing as they did a lot of “combined exercises to prepare for the competition”.

 

She said that it was indeed a team effort from decorations and contri-buting ideas on how the dishes should taste to the finishing touches to cleaning up afterwards.

 

Therefore, they “were organised” when it came to making the final product as they would have also tried out different recipes and tweaked them.

 

Lucia White, Food and Nutrition Teacher at St. Winifred’s School, said that her students each worked on their own dish and they must be commended for their hard work because “a teacher can only guide”. They also had tremendous support from the parents.

 

Speaking on behalf of her four-member team, Iyore Rock said that she did a seafood Caribbean Salsa; Kelani White prepared a Shark Quiche; Kaliha Taylor prepared a Fishatina; and Alyssa Inniss-Gittens did a Sweet Potato and Barracuda Royale.

 

She stated that they conducted research on their dishes while she and Kaliha got help from Kaliha’s mother, Karen Taylor; and Kelani and Alyssa got help from White. (PJT)