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sugar snap peas

  • Sugar Snap Peas and Asparagus with Hand-Pounded Pesto

    Sugar Snap Peas and Asparagus with Hand-Pounded Pesto

    When you spend twelve years in L.A., it’s easy to forget what real spring feels like. I say “real spring” because the spring that you get in L.A. is ersatz spring… nothing really died in the winter, so nothing really comes back. It never got that cold, it never snowed, you never stepped into an…

  • Pickled Sugar Snap Peas

    Pickled Sugar Snap Peas

    There’s a very hip restaurant in my neighborhood called Joseph Leonard; you go there, and everyone else is either more attractive or more wealthy than you. There’s a very cool bathroom with a medicine cabinet over the sink that has Q-tips, Altoids and tampons (I bet women wish more restaurant bathrooms had tampons; or maybe…

  • Sugar Snap Peas with Whipped Ricotta

    Sugar Snap Peas with Whipped Ricotta

    We ate a wonderful dish at Franny’s a few weeks ago of sugar snap peas (my favorite springtime vegetable) served on a cloud of whipped ricotta resting in a sea of olive oil. It was such a beautiful dish–the bright greenness of the snap peas, the cooling creaminess of the ricotta–that not only did I…

  • Anatomy of a Dish: Momofuku’s Sugar Snap Peas

    Anatomy of a Dish: Momofuku’s Sugar Snap Peas

    It’s difficult to improve upon a sugar snap pea. It’s nature’s candy: green, crunchy, juicy. It’s interactive: you peel away the thread and then throw it in your mouth. This spring, I became a sugar snap pea junkie–buying moundfuls at the farmer’s market and snacking on them all afternoon. The few times I cooked them,…

  • What To Do With Sugar Snap Peas

    What To Do With Sugar Snap Peas

    A mountain of sugar snap peas greeted visitors to the Union Square Farmer’s Market on Friday. I was there because on Friday night I was hosting a screening of “Showgirls,” a movie that Craig delights in as “sublimely disastrous.” Browsing around the market, I was trying to piece together a meal concept and, aware that…