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 serve it as an appetizer at the dinner I cooked for Lizzie and Tyla, but I also served it again two days letter when I cooked a dinner for our friend Diana's birthday. And both times it was a b...