"Kosher food made cool, calm, and sexy--the essentials for cooking and entertaining with style. Author Kim Kushner shares 100+ essential recipes, techniques, tools, and tricks for preparing delicious kosher meals with ease. This inspiring cookbook offers simple, straightforward, go-to kosher recipes, ranging from quick dinners to slow-simmered main dishes, party fare, and freezer-to-table specialities, for every meal and any occasion, with busy families in mind. Whether preparing a simple dinner for two, a full-family feast, or party menu for ten, Kim's strategy is to draw on this essential collection of recipes, tips, and tricks to guarantee stellar results, please any crowd, and have fun along the way."--Provided by publisher. "As a mother of four, a culinary instructor, and an author, Kim Kushner has a cooking style that reflects her busy, multitasking life. Her recipes are flavor-packed and made with straightforward techniques that bring ease, time-savings, and creativity to the kitchen. In these beautiful pages, Kim shares her signature essentials--those perfected recipes turned to again and again for guaranteed stellar results every time. Her crowd-pleasing fare spans great-tasting nibbles like red-roasted chickpeas and rustic tartlets topped with ricotta, pesto, and pickled onions; brunch delicacies including red shakshuka and medjool date squares with quinoa, pecans, and sour cherries; quick and one-pot main dishes such as 4-ingredient arctic char, kefta beef and lamb kabobs, and roasted salmon with salt and vinegar kale chips; colorful salads like fresh figs, baby tomatoes, ricotta, and truffle honey; and mouthwatering desserts such as simply divine almond cake and tahini chocolate chunk cookies with sea salt. Kim also presents kosher recipes for ready-to-go basics to have on hand, like condiments, sauces, soups, and marinades that can help you pull together and enhance quick, delicious meals. With a less-is-more approach, Kim's recipes teach you how to use time and ingredients smartly and simply to feed and entertain family and friends with [heart] and joy."--Inside front cover.