Roasted Snap Pea Salad With Yakult-Style Dressing

Here’s a dish that Frost (my daughter) and I call our Inner Smile Salad. It’s everything you want for a cookout. It’s super easy, so you can make it ahead and bring it in a Tupperware. Or you can prop a cast-iron pan on the beach flames and make it right there and then. After a hot fire, lots of sun, and piles of grilled meat, it’s a hydrating, cooling, creamy, green gift that’s fun to eat, with a mix of savory elements tucked amid the sweetness that Frost loves. We hammer bowls of it. The dressing is my knockoff of a Japanese probiotic milk drink called Yakult. It’s fermented with a different strain of bacteria than yogurt, and that’s where it gets its citrusy tang.