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.

The salmon roll is a lovely, indulgent twist on the classic maki. The sheet of nori seaweed is replaced by a thin slice of salmon and a cream cheese center.

A cross between maki and fresh spring rolls. Rice paper instead of a sheet of nori seaweed, with lettuce, mint, salmon and avocado.

A variation on salmon maki, California rolls are made inside out, with the nori seaweed on the inside instead of the outside. They’re fairly easy to make.

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

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.