snow peas

The secret? Opt for a high cooking temperature and a short cooking time.

Vibrant, tender-crisp peas are one of our favourite ways to freshen up dinner with spring produce. Here are ten tasty recipes to help you get a little extra green onto your plate tonight.

Watch this how-to video, and learn how to prepare snow peas with a simple two-step method.

The challenge: bring over a side dish to a our friends’ house for dinner; keep it simple to not distract from the main course; have it be aesthetically pleasing and, preferably, green; make sure it can be easily heated and/or assembled so as not to burden our hosts in the kitchen when we arrive; and make it toddler friendly? A tall order, I know, but I thought that the Lemony snow peas and mixed mushrooms recipe would be able to stand up to the test.

This meal was not what I was expecting, but not in a bad way. I was thinking this recipe for Chicken on cilantro-ginger noodles would be hot and mushy and would taste like a Thai food takeout dish. Boy, was I wrong. Do you ever eat something so cool, crisp and healthy that you feel clean and refreshed afterwards, like you just stepped out of the shower? I'm not kidding. I usually only feel like that after a salad on a hot summer day.