Hiya, Jersey
I have a love/hate relationship with the white porcelain. I agree it presents the colours best...but I find the plates, themselves, look so very clinical.
Lately, I've been stacking or deconstructing. Last weekend I made a salad with dressed chicory, a polenta cake, two poached quail eggs, diced pancetta and a sliced fig. (meant to take a pic...but we were well into the second bottle of wine...)
The polenta went down first, off center. The chicory slightly covered it, taking the other side of the plate. The fig, which was fanned on one side only, (giving a magnificent view of the bright, gorgeous center) was leaning into the greens,(looking like it was waterfalling onto the polenta) leaving the polenta as a bed for the poached eggs. The diced pancetta was sprinkled over the greens.
It tasted pretty good, too, ahahaha.