This post brought to you by P.F. Chang’s. All opinions are 100% mine.
My family loves getting together to eat out! There aren’t too many great places to eat where I live, so when my family gets bored of the same old Thai food, we venture to P.F. Chang’s.
P.F. Chang’s has a bunch of new food items just for autumn in their Fall Seasonal Menu. Some of these new drinks, appetizers, and entrees include:
- Ginger Jalapeño Mule and Apple Cinnamon Martini
- Pumpkin Dessert Wontons
- Apple Cinnamon Martini
- Apple Dessert Wontons
- Shanghai Waldorf Salad
- Crispy Korean Chicken Wings
- Miso Chicken
- Harvest Vegetable Quinoa “Fried Rice”
- Vietnamese Noodles with Steak & Shrimp
- Citrus Mustard Prawns
I want to try the Crispy Korean Chicken wings and the Harvest Vegetable Quinoa “Fried Rice” ASAP!!! And I wouldn’t mind washing it down with an Apple Cinnamon Martini ;)
Apple Cinnamon Martini
Crispy Korean Chicken Wings
P.F. Chang’s is also putting on a contest! How can you enter The Goodness of Fall Contest at P.F. Chang’s?
Create at least 3 new, unique dishes using 3 of the seasonal ingredients on the Fall Seasonal menu. The top 5 recipes advance to the final round where there will be a chance to win the grand prize!
*Grand Prize* The winner and one lucky guest will win a two-night trip to Napa in Spring of 2014, including an exclusive visit to the guest house at a Napa Valley vineyard where judges Philip Chiang and Yuji Iwasa will be cooking some of their favorite dishes. Director of Beverage Mary Melton will also be there, guiding the winners through an extensive wine tasting. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime Napa Valley getaway!
There are also daily winners! Every day, someone will win a $50 P.F. Chang’s gift card. Think of all the new menu items you can try with that amount of money! So you don’t necessarily even need to have the best recipe to win something in this contest!
If you’re heading to P.F. Chang’s for dinner one of these days, don’t forget to print out their $10 off $40 special offer on their contest page!
In honor of P.F. Chang’s contest and new Fall Seasonal Menu, they have asked me to use a few seasonal ingredients and show you all a recipe! Here is my Apple, Kale + Quinoa Salad!
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup (uncooked) Red quinoa
- 1 Green Apple
- 1/2 cup Corn
- 1/4 bunch of Kale
- 1/2 cup Spinach
- 3-4 Shiitake mushrooms
- 1/2 lemon
- Balsamic Dressing
Balsamic Dressing:
- 3/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 balsamic vinegar
- Salt (varies to your taste)
- Pepper (varies to your taste)
Directions:
- Cook the quinoa. Pretty simple.
- Fry the shiitake mushrooms and cut them into slices. This will add an Asian-inspired flavor to the salad. If you don’t like shiitake mushrooms, walnuts are a good replacement since they give the salad more texture.
- Slice the green apple. Then cover with lemon juice to keep the apple from browning
- Throw all the ingredients into a mixing bowl and add the balsamic dressing.
That’s it! An easy salad that uses superfood kale. I definitely think that next time I’ll use walnuts instead of the shiitake mushrooms. Maybe throw in some strawberries or pomegranate seeds to give it a sweet kick. Yum!
Don’t forget to head to your local P.F. Chang’s to try out their new Fall Seasonal Menu and don’t miss out on the chance to enter The Goodness of Fall Contest! To keep up with P.F. Chang’s, you can Follow @pfchangs on twitter and Follow P.F. Chang’s on Pinterest!
