Lemony sugar snap pea salad

This tasty side salad is a welcome way to ring in spring. The combination of crisp snap peas and sliced cucumber with fresh mint and tangy feta, makes it ideal for warm weather meals. This salad is best served shortly after preparing it—you can prep all the ingredients ahead of time though and toss them just before serving. Kirby cucumbers are a short variety with bumpy skin. They are wonderfully flavorful and crunchy and are perfect for eating raw, as in this salad. Blanching the sugar snap peas followed by the immediate shock of cold water yields tender peas that still have a bit of a bite.