Banana Kernik

Chocolate Banana Kernik

(Made with one recipe Chocolate Kernik, one recipe Banana Kernik, and two recipes chocolate pecan crust)

Banana Kernik
One can (12 ounces) coconut milk
2 ripe bananas
Bamboo honey to taste (about 1/4 cup)
2 tablespoons agar
4 tablespoons water
Juice and zest of one quarter of an orange
(some vanilla and or dark rum might be nice, but I did not use any)
 

Blend the bananas, coconut milk, honey, juice and zest in a blender.  Bring the water to the simmer in your smallest saucepan.  Sprinkle the agar over the surface and simmer until melted.  Blend the melted agar into the banana cream.  Pour the batter into a 6-inch springform pan.  This is good with a chocolate pecan crust and just wonderful on its own. 

Chocolate Banana Kernik
To make the chocolate banana kernik pictured above, prepare one recipe chocolate kernik, one recpe banana kernik, and two recipes raw vegan pecan dough.  Press the dough into the bottom of an 8-inch springform pan. Pour the chocolate and banana batters into pitchers with spouts.  Pour about a quarter of the chocolate batter into the pan.  Carefully pour a quarter of the banana batter directly into the center of the chocolate batter, forming a bulls-eye.  Continue alternating batters, pouring each portion directly into the center of the circle.  If desired, feather the top with a knife.  Chill overnight to set. 

I am not going to tell my family this is a raw, vegan, gluten-free dessert until it is too late.

‏װידער געפֿילטע ‏ Gefilte Redux ‏

I am all but certain that all the other Yiddish vegetarian Jewish food bloggers will corroborate that the most requested, coveted, and yearned for vegetarian adaptation is for gefilte fish (‏געפֿילטע פֿיש ).  In the recipes posted here and here I followed Lena Braun's suggestion to use salsify, or as she calls it ‏ אױסטער־פּלענט ‏(oyster-plent).  We couldn't find any salsify ‏in time to shoot this video, and first tried Braun's back-up suggestion of cauliflower.  The cauliflower fish was fine, but not really as smashing as the salsify version.  Finally we hit upon the parsnip and cauliflower combination, which provides salsify-worthy verisimilitude with ingredients you can find at a moment's notice.

 For the Joyous holiday of Shvies (the best yontif) have a look at our blintz episode.  Recipes here and here.


And do have a listen to the Tablet magazine Shvies podcast  here.

I have nothing else to add.  I just wanted to type "salsify-worthy verisimilitude" again.

Pumpkin Kernik קערניק פֿון קאַבאַק

Pumpkin Kernik

Raw Pecan Crust

¾ cups raw pecans

¾ cups semisweet chocolate

combine the chocolate and pecans in a processor and grind to a fine dough. Press the dough into the base of a six-inch springform pan.

Pumpkin Bavarois

1 14-ounce can coconut milk

2 tablespoons agar

pinch salt

1 cup cooked pumpkin (or other deep orange squash, like butternut)

¾ cups honey or agave (more or less, to taste)

Heat the coconut milk in a small saucepan and sprinkle in the agar agar. Stir, cooking gently, until the agar is dissolved. Combine the coconut milk with the pumpkin and honey in a blender and puree very thoroughly. Pour the pumpkin cream onto the chocolate pecan crust and chill until firm.

קערניק

kernik A vegan cheesecake made from nuts or seeds

קאַבאַק
kabak pumpkin

See chocolate kernik, pistachio kernik, Strawberry kernik, and Bamboo Honey Vanilla Kernik

בלינצעס

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בלינצעס: די בלעטער

3 אָנצן (3/4 טעפּל) מעל

2 אײער

1 װײַסל

1 טעפּל מילך

¾ לעפֿעלע גראָבע זאַלץ

2 לעפֿל בױמל

פּוטער

די מעל

Flour

דאָס װײַסל

White (of an egg)

די מילך

Milk

דער בױמל

Oil

אַדורכזיפּן

sift

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בלינצעס: דאָס געפֿילעכץ

2 טעפּלעך (14 אָנצן) טװאָרעך

1 געלכל

1 לעפֿלע גראָבע זאַלץ

2 לעפֿל צעגאַנגענע פּוטער

1 אָדער 2 לעפֿל צוקער

מישט אַלע אינגרעדיענטן אױס צוזאַמען.

דאָס געפֿילעכץ

Filling

דאָס געלכל

Yolk

די פּוטער

Butter

צעגײן (צעגאַנגען)

To melt (melted)

דאָס טעפּל

cup

דער לעפֿל

Tablespoon

דאָס לעפֿעלע

Teaspoon

אױסמישן

Mix together

English recipe for blintses coming soon, possibly before yontif, mertseshem.

See our Blintz video here.

Vegan Shvies (shavuos, shavuot, shabuoth) survival guide here.
Johnny Cash on Blintzes here.

Chocolate Kernik שאָקאָלאַדער קערניק

אַ סך פֿון ענק האָבן מיר שױן געפֿרעגט אַ היפּש פּאָר מאָל װען איך זאָל שױן אָנבלאָגעװען אַ שאָקאָלאַדער קערניק. נו? קומען װעט נאָך אונדזער אױסגעבענקטע שעה. אָט איז רעצעפּט װאָס װאָלט געקאָנטברענגען דערלײזונג.

שאָקאָלאַדער קערניק

טײג

½ טעפּל רױע פּעקאַן־ניס

½ טעפּל שאָקאָלאַד

מישט'ץ אױס שאָקאָלאַד מיט ניס אין אַ פּראָצעסירער. טו זײ אַרײַן אין אַ בעקל פֿון 6 צאָל

12 אָנצן אָונצעס האַלב־זיס שאָקאָלאַד

12 אָנצן (1 פּושקע) קאָקאָנוס מילך

1 לעפֿל אַגאַר

2 לעפֿל װאַסער

2 לעפֿל ראָם

¼ טעפּל אַגאַװע

װאַרעמט'ץ אָן דעם שאָקאָלאַד מיט דער קאָקאָנוס מילך. אין אַ קלײן טאָפּ, װאַרעמט'ץ אָן װאַסער מיט אַגאַר דער אַגאַר זאָל צעגײן. מישט'ץ אױס שאָקאָלאַד־מילך מיטן אַגאַר־װאַסער, ראָם און אַגאַװע. גיסט'ץ אײַן אינעם בעקעלע מיטן שאָקאָלאַדן טײג, און קיל עס אָפּ אַ פֿיר שעה.

A number of you have been wondering when I was going to make a chocolate kernik, already. I was planning to try something last Friday, but you know, even when the days are long, shabes just comes rushing up at you unawares, so I thought, I’ll just throw together something really fast and easy this week, and work on the real chocolate kernik recipe next week. You can’t expect such a strategy to yield sublime recipes consistently, but wow, this is clearly the kernik that was meant to be.

Chocolate Kernik

Crust

½ cup raw pecans

½ cup (4 ounces) semisweet chocolate, chopped

grind the chocolate and nuts together in a processor and press the crumbs into the bottom of a springform pan. (It will be easier to unmold the cake if you place a cardboard disk in the bottom of the pan and form the crust on that. Since the kernik does not get baked, it will be fine).

Filling

12 ounces (1 can) coconut milk

12 ounces (1 ½ cups) semisweet chocolate, chopped

2 tablespoons water

1 tablespoon agar

2 tablespoons dark rum

¼ cup agave, if desired

Heat the coconut milk with the chocolate to melt. Swish the water in the can to get out the last drops of coconut milk. Heat the coconut water with the agar to dissolve. Combine the agar with the chocolate mixture and rum and agave if desired. Pour the filling into the chocolate crust and chill for four hours.קערניק

kernik A vegan cheesecake made from nuts or seeds

See pistachio kernik, Strawberry kernik, and Bamboo Honey Vanilla Kernik

The Chocolate Lady’s Vegan Shvies (Shabuoth, Shavuot) Survival Guide (Honey Vanilla Kernik)

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The difficulties faced by vegetarians during the joyous festival of peysekh are the subject of endless brow-furrowing, hand-wringing, and beard-tugging, but really, a vegetarian Passover is a day at the races, a veritable (peysekhdik) cakewalk compared to steep and slippery slope scaled by vegans at the joyous Feast of Weeks. Yes, I know peysekh is way longer, and comes with actual mitsves, but everyone is more or less in the same boat with regard to facing culinary challenges at peysekhtime. Shvies, on the other hand, has no dietary restrictions, and on the contrary offers the extra option of having milkhiks at a holiday meal. This beloved shvies tradition is of recent origin, dubious provenance, and is by no means universal, but it has earned shvies the title as the best of all holidays.

Here are your shvies survival links:

The most important recipe you need is this cashew and hemp cheese for filling blitnses, pierogi, vereniki, naleszniki, and other cheesy delights.

Have a look as well at this amazing pistachio cheesecake (or Yiddish pistachio cheesecake)

Shvies cheesecake lexicography.

And here is the honey-vanilla kernik you have been waiting for.

A sweet and happy yontif to all In Mol Araan.

װעגאַנער טאָרט מיט קאַשוניס און קאָנאָפּליעס

1 טעפּל קאַשוניס

½ טעפּל קאָנאָפּליעס

‏2 לעפֿל קאָקאָנוס בױמל ‏
¼ לעפֿעלע זאַלץ

¼-1/2 טעפּל האָניק

זױמען פֿון 1 שױט װאַניל

2 לעפֿל אַגאַר (קאַנטען)

װײקט אײַן די קאַשוניס און קאָנאָפּליעס אין װאַסער אײן נאַכט. גיסט אױס דאָס װאַסער. מאָלט אָפּ די ניס מיט 1 ½ טעפּלעך פֿרישע װאַסער, האָניק, זאַלץ און װאַניל. קאָכט דאָס געמיש אין אַ טאָפּ מיטן אַגאַר דער אַגאַר זאָל צעגײן. גיסט אײַן אין אַ טאָרט־פֿענדל פֿון 6 צאָל און קילט עס אָפּ.

Almost Raw Vegan Honey Vanilla Cheesecake (Kernik)

1 cup raw cashews

½ cup hemp seeds

2 tablespoons coconut oil

¼ teaspoon salt (2 fat pinches)

2 tablespoons agar-agar (kanten)

¼-½ cup bamboo honey or other flavorful honey, to taste

seeds from one vanilla bean

1 6-inch pastry crust (ah, look! You have a leftover chocolate crust right here!)

Soak the cashews and hemp seeds overnight. Drain them and add 1 ½ cups fresh water, the honey, oil, and salt, and blend at high speed for several minutes. Heat the blended nut mixture with agar until the agar dissolves and pour into a six-inch springform with or without a prepared crust. You can pour the mixture into individual cups or bowls.

שבֿועות איז דער בעסטער יום־טובֿ

פּסח קאָן מען נישט עסן װאָס מע װיל; סוכּות קאָן מען נישט עסן װוּ מע װיל; איז שבֿועות דער בעסטער יום־טובֿ.

זעט אַן אינטערעסאַנטן עסײ ריבֿקה-לאה באָגזס דאָ.

Peysekh kon men nisht esn vos me vil; sikes kon me nit esn vi me vil; iz shvies der bester yontif

Passover, you can't eat what you want, Succoth you can't eat where you want; Shabuoth is the best holiday