Susie Fishbein shares the most popular, iconic side dish of all time. Want to know the Fishbein favorites? Susie Fishbein listed the yemenite soup and wonton chicken as some of her families favorites. But then we asked–what is perhaps the all-time popular recipe she has ever published (when it’s competiting with 2600 recipes, that’s saying…
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New Easy Tasty Dinner! Smoky Baked Chicken Schnitzel
One ingredient does a world of wonders in upgrading the typical schnitzel dinner. While on our daily walk one morning, my neighbor mentioned this new way she prepared some fish for her family. Walking recipes are ones that have to be simple enough to remember later. This one fit the bill. I filed it away…
Basics: How to Make Syrian Sambousak
This dairy pastry is a staple in every Syrian home on Shavuot (and after every fast). A couple of years ago, I had this great idea of doing a series of posts featuring teens in the kitchen. Some of my daughter’s friends stepped up and demonstrated a favorite recipe for me to photograph. And then…
Our Greatest Baking Hack: Cheese Filled Cupcake Bites
You can always count on Between Carpools to bring you the greatest shortcuts to amazing treats. These cheese bites might be our best ever! Sure there are days when you feel like digging deep and baking up a storm from scratch. But there are probably more days when you’d love to serve a special treat…
This Heavenly Dairy Bundt Cake Will Become A Family Favorite.
Sour cream and butter, what can go wrong? Not much. Start brewing some coffee because this is the type of cake you will want to have with your morning cup of Joe. Dense and flavorful, this is a pound cake dream. The dairy flavors meld with the cocoa, but it’s not overwhelmingly dairy or heavy….
Knafeh: the Syrian Answer to Cheesecake
You can make the best of Israeli shuk street food in your own kitchen. Editor’s note: A few years ago on a trip to Israel, I took a tour of the Machane Yehuda shuk with Tova In Israel. She introduced us to this most incredible dish and there was no turning back. Every time I…
The Simplest, Easiest, Three Ingredient Ribs
Save these ribs for your recipe collection…I’ve been making them for 20 years and no one has gotten tired of them. They taste so good, and that’s all you need to hear. I like to bake these ribs one day in advance and then refrigerate so I can skim the fat off the top before…
The Best Spelt Challah Recipe
Use this tried and true recipe—and nobody will believe that you used spelt flour! I casually mentioned to my sister that I was trying a new spelt challah recipe one week after the previous attempt failed miserably. She told me to stop searching because she’d had the best spelt challah the week before made by…
How to Prepare Hash Browns on a Sheet Pan
I’m warning you from now. You will want to prepare a second batch of these perfect, crispy hash browns potatoes. When it comes to making Pesach sides (aside from hot vegetables), all you might be left with is potatoes. As a chef, my creativity has had to go into overdrive to come up with various…
Basics: How to Make Pesach Rolls (Gebrokts)
These Pesach rolls were always a staple when I was growing up. My earliest Pesach memories involve sitting on the steps of the Javits Center during a Chol Hamoed trip eating these Pesach rolls and cream cheese. Before Pesach lunches, my mother would make them fresh and bring them to the table hot out of…

