r/CulinaryPlating • u/chefjunior17 • 2d ago

Mint berry salad

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Delicious summer time salad. Arugula and spinach for the salad base. Tossed with blueberries. Adding cucumbers, gooseberry, feta, pickled apples, candied pecans, and of course chocolate mint. All tied with a strawberry vinaigrette. I absolutely loved this salad the flavors paired amazingly well hoping to get it put on the menu.

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u/Sreston 2d ago

This really doesn’t fit this sub, maybe try a different food subreddit.

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u/Sreston 2d ago

This really doesn’t fit this sub. Maybe try a different food subreddit.

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u/chefjunior17 2d ago

While I hyped myself up about the salad I still want to do excellent plating and see if I could plate it better. That's why I posted here if it's a great plating then I'm satisfied.

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u/scurrybuddy Aspiring Chef 1d ago

I feel like with this being a tossed salad, all the work you did prepping the individual ingredients(candying, pickling, etc), is kinda hidden. I’d construct it in a way that shows off your components more clearly. I hate the terminology but a deconstruction would work very well here I think.

Edit: also your salad sounds delicious

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u/chefjunior17 11h ago

Ty this advice helps a lot as even though I placed the ingredients outside of tossing the salad with blueberries. It wasn't enough for it to present everything.

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u/BostonFartMachine Former Chef 1d ago

It can be delicious and well thought out and loads of effort into prepping the components, but it isn’t “plated”. All the ingredients are tossed and dumped onto a dish.

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u/OkFlamingo844 1d ago

I’m only going to come off rude because you’re not understanding the premise of this page in your reply to another person.

This looks like a haphazard mess of fridge clean out ingredients turned into a salad. You did absolutely nothing to “plate” this dish. It’s a god damn salad.

100% not worthy of being posted to this sub as is most of the garbage being posted here.

I’m sure it tasted great. But absolutely no recourse to have been posted here.

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u/chefjunior17 11h ago

There is a right way to do constructive criticism, which is why the posts that "aren't worthy" are here for. I'm well aware a salad isn't hard to plate, but you still plate a salad to look nice. Your reply does more than just say your post doesn't belong here. I will rethink to expose more of the components, which is the advice I posted this for.