Fans of Susie Fishbein‘s Kosher By Design cookbook series will be happy to hear that the latest and final installment of the series is here! In her latest cookbook, Kosher By Design Brings It Home: picture-perfect food inspired by my travels, Susie Fishbein offers 113 recipes from all around the world, inspired by 15 years of international culinary adverntures. In this cookbook, there are recipes for everyday, and recipes for special occassions, all compiled with gorgeous photos and interesting narratives about the origins of the recipes from countries such as Italy, Morocco, Mexico, Israel, and more.
Here at JOY of KOSHER, we are giving you a sneak peak of 3 of the recipes from the cookbook!


When teaching a class on Passover cooking at the Ritz Carlton in Cancun one year, I wanted to create a Southwestern soup that did not contain beans. This keeper, with its egg-drop soup effect, is so simple and is brightened with a pop of chilies, lime juice, and silky avocado.

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Lentils, dubbed the “poor man’s meat,” are a low-cost source of protein. This delicious recipe is a typical Tuscan picnic dish. It can be made in advance, is healthy, and travels well. It is a perfect addition to a shalosh seudos table or a great summer Shabbos appetizer. Seek out the Italian or French Puy lentils; they make a huge difference in taste and texture. They are nothing like the mushy soup lentils you may be familiar with. They are hearty, intensely flavored, and keep their shape perfectly.

My all-time favorite stop in Machane Yehuda and in the new Sarona Market in Tel Aviv is Halva Kingdom. I think I have sampled all 60 flavors, or maybe that’s just the dream. This business was founded in 1947 by the grandfather of the current shop owner, Eli Maman. After the expulsion of Jews from the Old City of Jerusalem, the family moved the shop to Machane Yehuda Market. The recipe of their famous halvah is from Morocco, and it is hand-made with traditional methods from organic sesame seeds imported from Ethiopia.
Recipes posted with permission from Kosher By Design Brings It Home: picture-perfect food inspired by my travels, by Susie Fishbein
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the soup
I would love to make ranchero soup. It looks delicious!
If the the whole cookbook is like the recipes shown, it will be hard to know where to start.
I’d love to try the lentil/tuna salad.
HALVAH BAKLAVA. A video showing how you make this would be very helpful, Jamie.
Ranchero Soup! Love trying new soups!
Oh my goodness, so yummo! TFSl, Annette
I am looking forward to trying the soup. It sounds like a great combination of flavors.
I am about to make the tuna and lentils—-looks like a great lunch or light supper
Made the halvah baklava… wonderful!
i’ld start with the lentil and tuna salad!
The cookbook looks very interesting! I would like to try the ranchero soup.
looks like a good cookbook.
Looking forward to more great food!
The lentil salad looks great! But where do you buy Italian lentils?
The tuna lentil salad looks great
The Lentil and Tuna Salad sounds wonderful!
My kids love Suzie Fishbein’s recipes so they have to be good. I would love to have this cookbook. The Ranchero Soup is first on my bucket list of new Suzie Fishbein recipes.
Every suzie fishbein recipe is great!
The lentil tuna salad is what I’d choose to make.
The Ranchero Soup – But I will also make the Halvah Baklava for my husband
The lentil tuna salad sounds divine!
HALVAH BAKLAVA
The lentil tuna salad
Would love to win
I am intrigued by the lentil tuna salad. It is not a combination I would have thought of.
Soup.
The soup looks delicious- would def make it!
Lentil and tuna salad…2 ingredients I can always find in my pantry! Love meals I don’t need to make a special trip to the market to prepare!
Ranchero soup!
I love everything with halva!
They all sound delicious!