Comments on: Jalapeno Carrot Rice Salad with Charred Peppers, Pepitas & Avocado-Tomato Salsa

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 20:52:20 +0000

Making this tonight–what are the nutritional stats??

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:40:18 +0000

I really want to try out carrots with my spiralizer but I can’t find carrots that are large enough to spiralize! Maybe South Florida is a bad environment for them and the imported ones are smaller? The biggest ones I can find are about 1/5″ diameter at the largest point 🙁

I’m going to try this anyway with the grating blade on my food processor (followed by pulsing with the regular blade) since I have a huge bag of small carrots to use up! It just won’t be as much fun as the spiralizer.

By: Alissandra Maffucci

Alissandra Maffucci — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 21:26:19 +0000

In reply to Joey. This comment made my day - thank you Joey!!

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:19:06 +0000

Just made this for dinner and I can honestly say this is one of the BEST veggie dishes I’ve ever tried! I used butternut squash rice instead of carrot rice since that’s what I had, and I literally need to make another batch because I wanted some to bring for lunch tomorrow and won’t have any leftovers since I can’t stop eating it! You are making eating more vegetables SO MUCH FUN, Ali! Thank you!

By: Alissandra Maffucci

Alissandra Maffucci — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:41:24 +0000

In reply to Samantha. I'm a true Aries, that's for sure! Glad you like the recipe!

By: Alissandra Maffucci

Alissandra Maffucci — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:37:06 +0000

In reply to Tina Muir. Haha - I feel ya! I'm so glad you like the recipe.

By: Alissandra Maffucci

Alissandra Maffucci — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:34:31 +0000

In reply to Serena. Serena - thank you so much! Happy to have you here!

By: Kyris

Kyris — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 02:27:38 +0000

SoCal is great. We in San Diego pray for rain all winter and my garden was planted by the end of February. Still praying for rain…. Love our weather. Grew up in snow country and can’t imagine ever going back.

By: Serena

Serena — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 01:53:32 +0000

I’ve been pulling up this post ALL DAY and salivating over the image!! I can’t wait to make this 🙂 New to your blog and delighted to have found you!

By: Tina Muir

Tina Muir — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:54:50 +0000

Love the roundup Ali! All looking fantastic! Yours is a serious power bowl there! So much nutrition! I need one of these ASAP!

As for spring, I lived in So Cal for 8 months at one point, and I remember going to Indiana (yes….indiana) for my spring break, it was like 40 degrees and raining. I thought I was going to die! You take it for granted, so I guess its good we have changes in seasons as it makes us appreciate 🙂

By: Samantha

Samantha — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:16:15 +0000

Oh Ali, I should’ve know you were a fellow Aries ( just celebrated my birthday Saturday) . Can’t wait to try this recipe out. Love to spiralize!

By: BarrAndTable

BarrAndTable — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:36:49 +0000

I think carrots are my new favorite thing to spiralize 🙂 Love the recipe!

By: HDasher

HDasher — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:27:19 +0000

This recipe looks great! Thanks to you, I’m using my new spiralizer every day! I live in SoCal and I miss having seasons! Believe it or not, perfect weather gets very boring. 😉 And I have to laugh when I see everyone wearing a parka as soon as it goes below 65.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:50:22 +0000

Being “close enough” to San Diego, I agree there isn’t the full change of seasons but there is definitely a trend towards acceptable temps to lay on the beach! You’ll have to come visit to see for yourself ;). The cilantro and avocado are totally in theme with SoCal! -JJ

By: laurengrier

laurengrier — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:24:49 +0000

Love these flavors, Ali! And looking forward to your new healthy creations!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:33:40 +0000

I enjoyed reading your post this morning! I’m excited for your new venture posting new healthy creations! This carrot salad looks amazing! Also – Just the other day my kids and I were wondering if people in Florida get excited about the change of seasons!! Very funny that you mentioned that today!!