Thank You / Good Morning America Feature!

Thanks everyone for your Thanksgiving orders! Had a great time delivering them in person, and a reminder for those picking up at Malt & Mold -- they're there and awaiting your pick up!

In case you missed the boat, there are some for sale at Malt & Mold, and if you really want to go crazy, go make 'em yourself! The fine folks at Good Morning America on ABC has posted our recipe on their website, so go check it out!

Now accepting Thanksgiving Preorders on our Pumpkin & Butternut Squash knishes! (KOSHER, too!)

Gobble gobble y'all

It's that time of year again: the biggest national food holiday is upon us! And what better way to make your fellow Thanksgiving folk kvell than with a savory pumpkin knish? 

Last year we did our very first special ordering offering for Thanksgiving: Pumpkin & Butternut Squash knishes.This year, we're doing it again. Place your order by 8am, Saturday, November 17th, and you will be able to either pick them up on Monday through Wednesday at Malt & Mold (221 East Broadway) noon-8pm,  on the Lower East Side, or have them delivered to your door on Sunday (afternoon or early evening) for a minimal fee.

AND for this week only, starting tomorrow (Tuesday), Malt & Mold will have a limited number of pumpkin knishes for sale! Go try one before you go all-in on an order. All knishes (including potato, pastrami, and kasha) are on sale for only $3 each this week!!

Special orders are:

• 6 pumpkin knishes: $20
• 12 pumpkin knishes $30
• 18 pumpkin knishes: $40

And in VERY limited quantities: Kosher pumpkin knishes! Same knish, just made under the strict supervision of the Vaad Harabonim of Queens in their commercial kitchen. 

• 5 Kosher pumpkin knishes: $20
• 10 Kosher pumpkin knishes $30
• 15 Kosher pumpkin knishes: $40

Cash only at point of pick up/delivery. They will arrive cold, and will hold up in the refrigerator quite well until Thanksgiving. [Reheat in oven at 300 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes before serving.]

To order, email knisherynyc(at)gmail.com; you will receive a confirmation email. We have limited capacity; orders placed will be filled first come, first serve.

Pumpkin knishes are vegetarian and dairy-free, not vegan (due to eggs) or gluten-free (due to wheat). Depending on availability, they are  made with about 95% organic ingredients.

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Knishes: Thank you!

A hot steaming pile of pumpkin.

My wife has a friend who once insisted that it was not possible to make a pumpkin pie from anything other than canned pumpkin. And that may be true, but I don't want my knish to taste like pie!

Anyway, thanks to everyone who ordered knishes -- we cooked close to our 1 day capacity, and everyone either came to HQ to pick up or were where they said they were going to be when I delivered in the afternoon and early evening.

Pumpkin knishes in search of yo turkey n' gravy.

So far all the feedback I received from the front lines of people's Thanksgiving tables have been good vibes -- if you had our pumpkin knishes, feel free to gimme a shout and give me a piece of your mind.

Until we start selling at some fairs in the Spring, the mind ponders....what holiday knishes can we sling next?....

Pre-order Pumpkin Knishes for Thanksgiving!

You can't keep a good knish down! It's savory (not sweet), full of big pumpkin flavor and spicing, and held together with the thin crisp/chewy/potato-y knish crust that'll make your Thanksgiving folk kvell!

So I recently got some feedback from a customer who sampled the pumpkin knishes at our Knishening event; she wants to serve those same knishes at her Thanksgiving table. It's hard to say no to someone who's excited about one's own product, so I decided to warm up the oven and make the following announcement:

Knishery NYC is baking pumpkin knishes for Thanksgiving this weekend! Place your order by Friday, November 18th, and you will be able to either pick them up on Sunday, between 11 am to 12pm, on the Lower East Side or have them delivered to your door Sunday afternoon and early evening.*

• 1-9 pumpkin knishes: $3 each + tax
• 10-19 pumpkin knishes $2.50 each + tax
• 20+ pumpkin knishes: $2 each + tax

Cash only at point of pick up/delivery. They will arrive cold, and will hold up in the refrigerator quite well until Thanksgiving. [Reheat in oven at 300 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes before serving.]

To order, email knisherynyc(at)gmail.com; you will receive a confirmation email. We have limited capacity; orders placed will be filled first come, first serve.

Pumpkin knishes are vegetarian and dairy-free, not vegan (due to eggs) or gluten-free (due to wheat.) Depending on availability, they are 50 to 95% made with organic ingredients.

*Delivery zone limited to anywhere in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Deliveries to be made via the knisher's own cargo bicycle. So here is your chance to meet KnisheryNYC in 3-D! Rough delivery times assigned the day before delivery. In case of scheduling issues, limited deliveries can be made on Monday. No extra charge for delivery. So be nice, not a nudgenik!

Four more days until Knishnageddon

It's nice to be able rush out of your apartment at 9pm to your local supermarket in desperate need of kasha, then having to select from not one, not two, not even three but four different variations of said grain. (It comes in whole, course, medium and fine, referring to the level of grind the grain went under. Whole tends to fall apart to easy in a knish-application, and fine goes mushy. I got course.) I tragically underestimated the amount of kasha I'd need during the day, and ended up making a second batch during the evening's assembly/baking.

Today we popped out a whole mess of kasha and several dozen pumpkin knishes. The pumpkin filling was supplemented with butternut squash, eggs, salt and shortening -- I was tempted to go crazy with the spices, but it's simple pumpkininess stayed my hand.

Other than fillings, I cooked the 45 lbs of onions for about 10 hours during the day. The three white stinky trays at the begining of the day became one golden mahogany brown tray by time it was ready for assembly...