Lemon and pepper pasta and a salad of roasted carrots and broccoli with tahin sauce, opinions
Lemon and pepper pasta and a salad of roasted carrots and broccoli with tahin sauce, opinions
by The_jwzg
22 Comments
elijha
Does not impress visually, does not look particularly tasty or cohesive, and looks annoying to eat. Why are you making me get tahini all over my fingers if I want a squeeze of lemon? Pasta just looks messy messy messy.
whydidimakeanother1
Why put lemons in the tahini sauce? Now if I want to squeeze one my hands are dirty. Also the smudge of sauce on the lip of the front plate seems really useless and out of place. Salad served with pasta seems off as well. If you wanted that veg in the dish, char it and throw it in the pasta
RxHotdogs
Gonna be a no from everyone, dawg
SoExtra
As an amateur with less snark around here, I can see the problematic lemon slices but otherwise I think it’s gorgeous.
Maybe the smear on the pasta plate could be better placed.
But where did you get that gorgeous plate with the tahini lemons!?
cheddarbunnies69
Oooph. The lemons in the tahini sauce, certainly a choice. The pasta looks messy, and i think the smear of sauce on the side of the plate is unnecessary and doesn’t add anything.
platydroid
Outside the fact that pasta dishes aren’t allowed per the rules, I don’t understand why you’d put a sauce to the side of the pasta. I second what others say about the lemon and tahini, I’d just put the roasted vegetables on top of the tahini and arrange them with purpose.
Kimchi_Rice196
looks like a smear of bird shit
unless its really important for the taste of the pasta, i would just leave it out
the sauce for the pasta also looked badly incorporated and dried out
PM_ME_Y0UR__CAT
You, uh, forgot to wipe a smidge there.
I’d eat this, but I wouldn’t pay for it
Over-Director-4986
Why is the lemon in the tahini? If the guest wants to squeeze that on their salad (I would), fingers are gonna get all gloopy. Leave the smear off the pasta plate. Pasta itself looks dry even though it’s sauced? Also looks **mega** al dente-I’m saying this as someone who likes pasta with a distinct ‘bite’.
That salad looks amazing though.
iwasinthepool
Sweet, now I can stick my fingers in my food to the lemons off the plate. Don’t put lemons on a plate. Just have squeezes ready in the kitchen and hit the food you think needs lemon with a little lemon before it leaves. Don’t make the guests work for it. Especially this. Lemons covered in aauce are essentially useless. Carrots and broccoli is not a salad. It looks like you plated up frozen vegetables.
On the pasta dish, keep your edges clean. This looks like a disaster waiting to happen. A server or guest is putting their finger directly in that at some point of the night. Pasta doesn’t need a side of sauce. Or a fucking lemon.
SarahHumam
replace those lemon chunks with thin preserved lemon slices, they can be eaten without any extra effort and you get to keep that bright yellow accent. I would plate it in one of them bowl-plates so you can mix and slop it all together without spilling
PM_ME__RECIPES
What the hell
Cardiff07
Sauce the dish not the plate
Philly_ExecChef
You got some shit on the rim there
Chazegg88
Looks like a bird shit on the edge of the plate, never out anything on the rim of the plate
NewLeaseOnLine
It’s very ambitious. I really like your enthusiasm here, and I can see you’ve been inspired with the chef smear, but that’s the rim of a bowl, not a dinner plate. Probably best not to make it look like there was an accident.
I’m not sure what happened with the pasta, but you really want to cook fettucine full length, not broken up and overcooked. Big pot and lots of heavily salted water for the pasta to move around. That way it won’t stick together.
For plating, just use some tongs and lower the pasta in from a height while turning the bowl. And get rid of the grilled lemon in the pasta. I can see where you’re going with the lemon and pepper flavours, but in this format it’s just gonna upset Italians. Real Italians.
Also, what did you dilute the tahini with? Because tahini is not itself a sauce. It’s an ingredient. You add small amounts of it to other things, like hummus etc. because it’s a very strong sesame paste. I’m assuming you balanced it with something, and possibly a herb in there?
I can see you really like lemon, but this isn’t seafood, or Turkish pide, or Austrian schnitzel, or Aussie style fish and chips, or any dish that is typically served with fresh lemon wedges. Finger food is great, but those wedges don’t really belong trapped in a puddle.
The roasted veggies look nice and colourful. Is that continental parsley or coriander/cilantro in the mix?
You’ve got two cuisines competing here. Southern Italian does have a lot of middle eastern influences, but not directly. The pasta vs the tahini aren’t competing in the same weight class.
You’ve definitely got a lot of potential and obviously have a passion for cooking, but at the moment you’re like a promising boxer without a coach.
NigerianPrinceClub
OP, who taught you??
This is my 25 character limit line lol
Unicorn_Sush1
You should post in r/shittyfoodporn
Diskobiscotti
Edges of plates are for servers why is there sauce on the rim
redditsgettingworse
Pasta looks great. I would dive in if served. I love a rustic look! Remove the sauce streak.
frumiouscumberbatch
I can only say two things.
1) No
2) Read rule 7 —->
(no boards, soups, or pastas)
ThermoNuclearPizza
Oh great, now the server can get their thumb directly in the sauce while serving.
22 Comments
Does not impress visually, does not look particularly tasty or cohesive, and looks annoying to eat. Why are you making me get tahini all over my fingers if I want a squeeze of lemon? Pasta just looks messy messy messy.
Why put lemons in the tahini sauce? Now if I want to squeeze one my hands are dirty. Also the smudge of sauce on the lip of the front plate seems really useless and out of place. Salad served with pasta seems off as well. If you wanted that veg in the dish, char it and throw it in the pasta
Gonna be a no from everyone, dawg
As an amateur with less snark around here, I can see the problematic lemon slices but otherwise I think it’s gorgeous.
Maybe the smear on the pasta plate could be better placed.
But where did you get that gorgeous plate with the tahini lemons!?
Oooph. The lemons in the tahini sauce, certainly a choice. The pasta looks messy, and i think the smear of sauce on the side of the plate is unnecessary and doesn’t add anything.
Outside the fact that pasta dishes aren’t allowed per the rules, I don’t understand why you’d put a sauce to the side of the pasta. I second what others say about the lemon and tahini, I’d just put the roasted vegetables on top of the tahini and arrange them with purpose.
looks like a smear of bird shit
unless its really important for the taste of the pasta, i would just leave it out
the sauce for the pasta also looked badly incorporated and dried out
You, uh, forgot to wipe a smidge there.
I’d eat this, but I wouldn’t pay for it
Why is the lemon in the tahini? If the guest wants to squeeze that on their salad (I would), fingers are gonna get all gloopy. Leave the smear off the pasta plate. Pasta itself looks dry even though it’s sauced? Also looks **mega** al dente-I’m saying this as someone who likes pasta with a distinct ‘bite’.
That salad looks amazing though.
Sweet, now I can stick my fingers in my food to the lemons off the plate. Don’t put lemons on a plate. Just have squeezes ready in the kitchen and hit the food you think needs lemon with a little lemon before it leaves. Don’t make the guests work for it. Especially this. Lemons covered in aauce are essentially useless. Carrots and broccoli is not a salad. It looks like you plated up frozen vegetables.
On the pasta dish, keep your edges clean. This looks like a disaster waiting to happen. A server or guest is putting their finger directly in that at some point of the night. Pasta doesn’t need a side of sauce. Or a fucking lemon.
replace those lemon chunks with thin preserved lemon slices, they can be eaten without any extra effort and you get to keep that bright yellow accent. I would plate it in one of them bowl-plates so you can mix and slop it all together without spilling
What the hell
Sauce the dish not the plate
You got some shit on the rim there
Looks like a bird shit on the edge of the plate, never out anything on the rim of the plate
It’s very ambitious. I really like your enthusiasm here, and I can see you’ve been inspired with the chef smear, but that’s the rim of a bowl, not a dinner plate. Probably best not to make it look like there was an accident.
I’m not sure what happened with the pasta, but you really want to cook fettucine full length, not broken up and overcooked. Big pot and lots of heavily salted water for the pasta to move around. That way it won’t stick together.
For plating, just use some tongs and lower the pasta in from a height while turning the bowl. And get rid of the grilled lemon in the pasta. I can see where you’re going with the lemon and pepper flavours, but in this format it’s just gonna upset Italians. Real Italians.
Also, what did you dilute the tahini with? Because tahini is not itself a sauce. It’s an ingredient. You add small amounts of it to other things, like hummus etc. because it’s a very strong sesame paste. I’m assuming you balanced it with something, and possibly a herb in there?
I can see you really like lemon, but this isn’t seafood, or Turkish pide, or Austrian schnitzel, or Aussie style fish and chips, or any dish that is typically served with fresh lemon wedges. Finger food is great, but those wedges don’t really belong trapped in a puddle.
The roasted veggies look nice and colourful. Is that continental parsley or coriander/cilantro in the mix?
You’ve got two cuisines competing here. Southern Italian does have a lot of middle eastern influences, but not directly. The pasta vs the tahini aren’t competing in the same weight class.
You’ve definitely got a lot of potential and obviously have a passion for cooking, but at the moment you’re like a promising boxer without a coach.
OP, who taught you??
This is my 25 character limit line lol
You should post in r/shittyfoodporn
Edges of plates are for servers why is there sauce on the rim
Pasta looks great. I would dive in if served. I love a rustic look! Remove the sauce streak.
I can only say two things.
1) No
2) Read rule 7 —->
(no boards, soups, or pastas)
Oh great, now the server can get their thumb directly in the sauce while serving.