Roasted Sweet Potato and Wild Rice Salad with a Chili-lime Vinaigrette

By Sweetpeasandsaffron

This healthy and delicious salad has ‘fall’ written all over it!  Roasted sweet potatoes, carrots, peppers, celery, onions and wild rice are tossed in a honey-chili-lime vinaigrette.

Well, hi!

Are you all recovering from Halloween?  I hope there was lots of chocolate and cute trick-or-treaters, and maybe a celebratory glass of wine in your lives last night.  We had two of the three…wine and chocolate, that is.  We had only five trick-or-treaters!  Sad.

And hand in hand with our chocolate and glass of wine was a verrrry scary movie.  Skarknado!

Ben scrolled through the {actually} scary movies on Netflix, and I vetoed them all.  Too scary for me {I’m still scared of the basement after watching a few episodes of American Horror Story}.  Sharknado it was.

Well, this recipe was originally slated for earlier in the week…until our house was struck down by the plague {flu}.  But maybe the day after Halloween, after we have all eaten more than our share of mini-Snickers bars, is actually better timing for a healthy deeeelicious salad.

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