Looking for critique/suggestions. I’m starting to play with a few Confit plates for our winter menu and this still feels like it’s missing something.
by LetItBeOrNevermind
3 Comments
frill_demon
I feel like the paler aligot clashes with the duck skin.
Maybe relocate the aligot in a smaller portion in between the duck and the veg as opposed to underneath, and leave the gastrique in its place? The darker gastrique just reads much more nicely against the skin to me.
You could also do a savory brittle coating over the pumpkin seeds and make their spiral across the plate clearer and more deliberate.
Rhodes_Warrior
This is probably just me cause I had it as a kid but that aligot looks like purple ketchup lol. Could just be the lighting but the aligot looks like artificial goop and it really throws off the rest of the plate.
Otherwise all the elements are there.
Alternative_Case_878
A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon…. A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird’s chest.
After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, “I’m sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away.”
The distressed woman wailed, “Are you sure?” “Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead,” replied the vet..
“How can you be so sure?” she protested. “I mean you haven’t done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something.”
The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck’s owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.
The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A few minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.
The vet looked at the woman and said, “I’m sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck.”
The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman..
The duck’s owner, still in shock, took the bill. “$150!” she cried, “$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!”
The vet shrugged, “I’m sorry. If you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it’s now $150.”
3 Comments
I feel like the paler aligot clashes with the duck skin.
Maybe relocate the aligot in a smaller portion in between the duck and the veg as opposed to underneath, and leave the gastrique in its place?
The darker gastrique just reads much more nicely against the skin to me.
You could also do a savory brittle coating over the pumpkin seeds and make their spiral across the plate clearer and more deliberate.
This is probably just me cause I had it as a kid but that aligot looks like purple ketchup lol. Could just be the lighting but the aligot looks like artificial goop and it really throws off the rest of the plate.
Otherwise all the elements are there.
A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon…. A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird’s chest.
After a moment or two, the vet
shook his head and sadly said, “I’m sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away.”
The distressed woman wailed,
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead,” replied
the vet..
“How can you be so sure?” she protested. “I mean you haven’t done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or
something.”
The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes later
with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck’s owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.
The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A few minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat
back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.
The vet looked at the woman and said, “I’m sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck.”
The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and
produced a bill, which he handed to the woman..
The duck’s owner, still in shock, took the bill. “$150!” she cried, “$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!”
The vet shrugged, “I’m sorry. If you had just taken my word for it,
the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it’s now $150.”