Monthly Archives: November 2011

Squash with a Twist and a Crunch

  This recipe is a nice alternative side dish to your Thanksgiving table, none of the cloying sweetness, but still sweet to please the kids, with a bit of good-for-you crunch.   Rosemary Roasted Squash and Sun Choke Chips Serves 8-12 (depending on your portioning)   Ingredients: 4 Acorn Squash, with seeds and inner fibers [...]

Citrus Kale Salad with Frozen Blue Cheese

Citrus Kale Salad with Toasted Walnuts and Warm Roasted Grapes and Frozen Blue Cheese serves 8-12 depending on portion size 4 large bunch kale, washed and trimmed of stems Medium Chunk of Blue Cheese, frozen. Yes, Frozen. 2 cups of Walnuts   1 bunch red seedless grapes Olive Oil 4 sprigs of Thyme (2 sprigs [...]

MONDAY DECEMBER 5th 5pm-7pm Eviston Artist Reception benefiting CASA Kern County and Global Family

Opening Reception “Paper Play” Join us at Valentien Restaurant on Monday, December 5th from 5:00pm – 7:00pm. On display will be new works by Brent Eviston. Brent will be donating a percent of proceeds from all sales to CASA and Global Family. In addition, Kern Community Foundation will be offering a matching grant for all [...]

An Alternative To Pie

We recently sent out, in our email newsletter, a request for your recipe requests. The dishes you have had at Valentien, and really want to replicate at home.  Today we present Chocolate Marquis requested by Deanna S. We thought the timing for this request couldn’t be more perfect.  With the holidays upon us, this makes [...]

A Recipe From Our Fall Menu

Roast Pumpkin 2 lbs fresh pumpkin, peeled & seeded  (clean and reserve seeds) 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper 1 teaspoon thyme   Directions Quarter and then carefully peel and seed the pumpkin. Cut into chunky 2″ cubes. Place pumpkin on baking sheet Add the olive oil, salt, [...]

Stuff a Pumpkin!

Perfect for Thanksgiving! Recipe Stuffed Baked Pumpkin   2 each (or 4 small) 1 to 2 lb pumpkin, cleaned and hollowed.     1 large sweet potato, cubed, roasted ½ lb acorn squash, cubed, roasted 2 cups leeks sliced 2 tablespoons sage chopped 2 cups chantrelle, or other exotic mushrooms cleaned, coarsely chopped 2 tablespoons [...]

Pumpkin Squash Soup

We recently made this soup from Chef Lindsay on live TV with Cambi Brown from KBFX Serves about 8 Ingredients: ½ Yellow Onion, chopped 2 Tablespoons Butter 2 cup Diced Pumpkin ½ cup Butternut Squash ½ cup Kabocha or Acorn Squash Water Salt to season Choice of liquid*  Directions: In medium saucepan “sweat” onion in [...]

Recipes for Celebrating Fall

Each week in November, Valentien will post a recipe that you can use in your home.  We will highlight seasonal fall dishes, perfect for incorporating into your Thanksgiving dinner repertoire.   We also demonstrated a few of the recipes on KBFX’s morning show when Cambi Brown visited a few weeks ago.