General
Xerophagy
Raw Beet, Apple, and Cabbage Salad with Pumpkin Seeds and Lemon
Raw beets are badly underrated. Cooked, they go soft and earthy; grated raw, they stay crisp and taste sweet and mine...
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Today's Fast
August 30, 2026
No Fast
13th Sunday after Pentecost
Martyr Myron, Presbyter of Cyzicus / Holy Martyr Patroclus (late 3rd c.)
Troparion: Tone IV. When the women disciples of the Lord learned from the angel / the joyous message of Thy resurrection, / they cast away the ancestral curse / and elatedly told the Apostles: / Death is over...
Recipe of the Day
Pască — Romanian Paschal Cheese Bread
Romanian
Non Fasting
Fasting Recipes
General
Xerophagy
Soaked Steel-Cut Oats with Tahini, Dates, and Sunflower Seeds
Strict-day breakfast is the hardest meal of a fast, because it comes before the discipline has settled into the day a...
General
Xerophagy
The Xerophagy Supper Plate — Bread, Bean Spread, and Raw Vegetables
Xerophagy — dry eating — is the strictest of the ordinary fasting disciplines: bread, water, raw or uncooked food, no...
General
Xerophagy
No-Cook Sunflower-Date Energy Bars with Hemp and Cocoa
These bars are built for the hardest fasting days — no oil, no baking, no dairy, just dates pressed together with raw...
General
Xerophagy
No-Oil White Bean and Roasted Garlic Dip with Lemon and Parsley
A bean dip needs neither oil nor tahini to be rich — soft cooked white beans blended with their own starchy liquid tu...
General
Xerophagy
Raw Kohlrabi and Walnut Salad with Lemon and Dill
Kohlrabi eaten raw is a revelation — crisp and juicy like a cross between an apple and a radish, with none of the sul...
General
Xerophagy
Overnight Soaked Buckwheat Bowl with Apple, Walnut, and Cinnamon
Raw buckwheat groats turn soft and pleasantly chewy after a night in cold water — no cooking, no oil, no heat. By mor...
General
Xerophagy
Marinated Raw Cabbage and Carrot Slaw with Caraway
A raw slaw can be watery and dull or it can be this: cabbage and carrot massaged with salt until they slump and turn ...
General
Xerophagy
No-Cook Almond and Date Power Squares
These are dense, chewy, and serious — built to carry you through a long fasting day or a stretch of services without ...
General
Xerophagy
Oil-Free White Bean Purée with Lemon and Cumin
A bean purée without a drop of oil sounds like it would be flat. It isn't — the trick is using the bean's own starchy...
General
Xerophagy
Цвекло с Боб — Bulgarian Beet and White Bean Salad with Garlic
On the strictest fasting days — the ones that call for xerophagy, when even cooked food and oil are set aside — you s...
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