Kosher by Design Short on Time: Fabulous Food Faster

by Susie Fishbein

From Susie Fishbein, author of the most popular kosher cookbook series ever, comes a tantalizing new volume tailored for the time constrained cook in all of us! Featuring the high quality approach associated with the first three volumes, Susie serves up uncompromisingly delicious recipes that are short on prep and long on taste and eye appeal. Says Fishbein, "This is the book all my friends - and their friends - have been waiting for!" 140 fabulous brand-new recipes ù all at the high quality that you have come to expect from the Kosher by Design series ù with the busy person in mind Features Large Full-color photo featured with every recipe Every recipe includes prep time and cooking time Innovative ideas for quick and easy table decor Building Block recipes for innovative variations Comprehensive index, easy cross-referencing

Genres: Cookbooks, Judaism

306 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2006

Reviews

[Hoosier · Rating 5 out of 5]

highly recommend this cookbook. Susie Fishbein is a master at creating cookbooks, and I love this cookbook even though I don't keep kosher. The recipes in it are easy for amateur cooks to prepare. Furthermore, they look and taste great. I also appreciate the variety of fish, poultry, beef, and salad recipes.

Reviewers have complained that the cookbooks in Fishbein's Kosher by Design series often have duplicative recipes, and this common complaint made me hesitant to buy this book because I also own Fishbein's "Passover by Design" and "Lightens Up" cookbooks. However, I have only found a few duplicative recipes in the three Kosher by Design cookbooks that I own. There are enough new and wonderful recipes in this book that one should not hesitate to buy it.

My one complaint would be the number of high calorie recipes in this cookbook. I hope that Fishbein's next cookbook would include new recipes not found in her other cookbooks that are easy to make but also low in calories and fat.

[Philosophette · Rating 3 out of 5]

It ain't gourmet...but there are some interesting looking family style meals:

Recipes I look forward to trying from this book:

Grilled Beef and Radish Salad
Fiesta Turkey Burgers
Tuna Croquettes
Braised Potatoes and Shallots
Salami Quiche Florentine
Creamy Tuscan White Bean Soup
Cumin Carrot Soup with Israeli Couscous
Pumpkin Bisque
Citrusy Chicken Salad with Warm Olive Vinaigrette

[Lindsay · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have made many of the recipes out of this book. Some that are really good are: orange cornmeal bread, pumpkin cranberry muffins, Cucumber Salad, Morrocan meat turnovers, Za'atar chicken, cornflake topped carrot kugel, orange chicken. Some recipes to avoid are cauliflower francaise, and edamame salad (lacks flavor).

[melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

i never realized how much i love Jewish foods. the best part was that i'm trying to get my mother to cook healthier, and she *easily* found 10 or so recipes she was willing to try (she's a hard sell).

[Jennye · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good ideas, but the recipes I have tried are lacking in depth and require challenging to find prepared kosher ingredients.

[Vader · Rating 3 out of 5]

5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish