From the rules:

Welcome to a little slice of culinary heaven where we share photos of our favorite dishes,

I don’t see any reason why OP shouldn’t post their halloumi salad anywhere in the community rules. As long as this salad is one of OP’s favourite dishes.

You, on the other hand, seem to violate rule 1.

That’s the artichoke

Maybe adjust by the number of upvotes coming from that instance (negatively) and by the number of upvotes users of your instance give over their (positively). If one instance spams upvotes, these upvotes loose value. If posts on that instance are popular with your users, the upvotes coming from that instance are more likely to have been made by real users. Maybe we can find a better metric to estimate the number of real, active users on another instance.