Salmon maki is the easiest roll to make when you’re just getting started with sushi. A sheet of nori seaweed rolled around sushi rice and a strip of salmon.

A chirashi rice bowl with fresh salmon, avocado, cucumber and sesame seeds.

The famous chickpea fritters, so easy to make and so, so good! A must-have for your falafel party (and naturally vegan and parve).

A little trip to India with this samosa recipe - vegetarian triangles stuffed with potatoes and peas.

These pakoras are little Indian fritters made with a chickpea flour batter. They are crispy and easy to make. Naturally vegan, gluten-free and parve.

After buying a big salmon fillet, I threw myself into homemade sushi: maki, salmon cream cheese rolls, chirashi (rice tartare), spring salmon avocado maki, sushi sandwiches, salmon avocado California rolls and a sushi cake.

I discovered the salmon avocado sushi sandwich in Israel a few years ago now, and it’s one of the ones I order most often because everyone loves it. Its club sandwich shape is especially fun, which is why I wanted to share it with you.

Here’s a sushi cake that’s quick to make and has all the flavors of sushi, but in a big-format version. A great option for entertaining, or for when you don’t have the time or the energy to get out your bamboo mat and roll individual sushi. Kosher and parve.