Reader Showcase: SHOW US YOUR FOOD By Felicia L. Mason felicia.mason@dailypress.com
We asked readers to show us your food photos on Eyewitness. Several have taken up the challenge, and we’d like to showcase them here. Eyewitness user LisaSadler posted Chicken Soft Corn Tacos saying, “Cheesecake Factory has it going on with these tacos!” A later posting was of Fried Avocado found in Yorktown. LisaSadler said of that dish, “Sliced and French fried Avocados can be found at the Water Street Grille in Yorktown overlooking the York River. Avocados are very soft and delicious. The side sauce should be something more of a white Mexican baha instead of a mixed MORE ONLINE ketchup. Overall, the food See a photo gallery of more was good.” reader food pictures at dailypress. Eyewitness user Wilecat com/food. And be sure to post had a scrumptious dinner at your food pictures at eyewitness. Cafe La Trois Rivah. On the dailypress.com. Look for the menu was Baked Chicken Show Us Your Food assignment. with a Pepper Beer Sauce featuring “long-grain and wild rice with lemon, and braised spinach and Swiss Chard at the Café La Trois Rivah. Don’t go looking for this because it’s what we call our kitchen in West Point,” Wilecat said. “My wife and I got into raising our cooking game about 12 or so years ago. It might not be pretty, but what’s pretty if it don’t taste good?” “These are some of my favorite cookies,” Eyewitness user Jrawls wrote of homemade cookies. “The name of the recipe is Drop Sugar Cookies, but it’s not the sugar that defines them. It’s the raisins and orange peel. Delicious! And such a nice winter treat, when oranges are in season.” Of Homemade Cupcakes Eyewitness user LisaSadler says, “Can you think of a better way to spend a cold winter day?” Whether you cooked it yourself or ordered it from a menu, share what you’re eating and enjoying. For a chance to see your food photos in the Daily Press, upload them with a short description at eyewitness.dailypress.com. And be sure to check out all of our Food content at The Dish, a blog by Daily Press food writer David Nicholson at www.dailypress.com/ food. Like and review us on Facebook at Hampton Roads Food & Drink for up-to-the-minute foodie news, contests and more.
Eyewitness user Wilecat Baked Chicken with a Pepper Beer Sauce
Eyewitness user LisaSadler Chicken Soft Corn Tacos at the Cheesecake Factory
Eyewitness user Jrawls Homemade Drop Sugar Cookies
Eyewitness user LisaSadler Fried Avocado at the Water Street Grille in Yorktown
Eyewitness user LisaSadler Homemade Cupcakes 32
THE PLATE • JUNE 2014