General
Fast With Fish
Shrimp and White Bean Skillet with Garlic, Chili, and Lemon
Fifteen minutes from cold pan to table. Shellfish is permitted on many days when fish is not — in much of the Slavic ...
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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...
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Pască — Romanian Paschal Cheese Bread
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Fasting Recipes
General
Fast With Fish
Fish and White Bean Chowder with Fennel and Leek
A chowder without cream, which turns out not to be a compromise at all. The body comes from white beans blended into ...
General
Fast With Fish
Sheet-Pan Salmon with Chickpeas, Tomatoes, and Herbs
One pan, thirty minutes, and nothing to wash but the pan. The chickpeas and tomatoes go in first and roast until the ...
General
Fast With Fish
Tuna and White Bean Salad with Red Onion, Lemon, and Parsley
Two cans and a lemon. This is the fasting lunch to keep in your head for the days when there is no time and no plan —...
General
Fast With Fish
Pan-Seared White Fish with Lemon, Caper, and Parsley Sauce
Fish days in the fasting calendar — Annunciation, Palm Sunday, the Dormition fast's feast, most of the Apostles' fast...
Other
Fast With Fish
Asam Pedas Ikan — Malaysian Sour and Spicy Fish Stew
Asam pedas means "sour and spicy," and this Malaysian classic delivers both with full force. Chunks of firm fish simm...
Greek
Fast With Fish
Bakaliaros Skordalia — Greek Fried Salt Cod with Garlic Purée
Bakaliaros skordalia is the dish Greeks reach for on the Annunciation and Palm Sunday — the two great fish days that ...
Other
Fast With Fish
Merluza en Salsa Verde — Hake in Spanish Green Sauce
Merluza en salsa verde is a Basque classic and one of the most elegant things you can do with white fish. Thick hake ...
Other
Fast With Fish
Brown Stew Fish — Jamaican Snapper in Spiced Gravy
Caribbean brown stew fish is comfort cooking at full volume. Whole snapper or thick fillets are seasoned with thyme, ...
Other
Fast With Fish
Godeungeo Jorim — Korean Braised Mackerel with Radish
Jorim is the Korean art of braising in a glossy, savory-sweet soy sauce until the protein soaks up everything around ...
Other
Fast With Fish
Doi Maach — Bengali Yogurt Fish Curry
Doi maach is the kind of dish that makes a fish day feel like a feast. Pieces of firm white fish are simmered in a sa...
Other
Fast With Fish
Sinigang na Bangus — Filipino Sour Tamarind Soup with Milkfish
Sinigang is the comforting sour soup at the heart of Filipino home cooking — a clear, tamarind-soured broth crowded w...
Other
Fast With Fish
Saba Shioyaki — Japanese Salt-Grilled Mackerel
Saba shioyaki is the quiet backbone of the Japanese home meal: a mackerel fillet salted, rested, and grilled until th...
Other
Fast With Fish
Hamsi Pilavı — Turkish Black Sea Anchovy Rice
On the Black Sea coast, the hamsi — fresh anchovy — is almost a religion, and hamsi pilavı is its grandest expression...
Other
Fast With Fish
Sgombro alla Griglia — Italian Grilled Mackerel with Salmoriglio
Mackerel is oily, muscular, and deeply flavored — the kind of fish that stands up to fire and acid without flinching....
Other
Fast With Fish
Gravlax — Scandinavian Dill-Cured Salmon
Gravlax is the great trick of the Nordic kitchen: raw salmon buried in salt, sugar, and a forest of dill, left to cur...
Greek
Fast With Fish
Psari Plaki — Greek Baked Cod with Tomato, Onion, and Olive Oil
Psari plaki is the everyday baked fish of Greek home kitchens — thick fillets of cod nestled into a bed of slow-cooke...
Greek
Fast With Fish
Greek Shrimp in Tomato Sauce with Herbs (Garides Saganaki)
Garides saganaki is one of the great Greek taverna dishes — plump shrimp baked in a bubbling, herb-spiked tomato sauc...
Other
Fast With Fish
Vietnamese Caramelized Fish in Clay Pot (Ca Kho To)
Ca kho to is Vietnamese home cooking at its most elemental — fish steaks braised in a dark caramel sauce with fish sa...
Other
Fast With Fish
Portuguese Salt Cod with Potatoes and Onions (Bacalhau a Bras Style)
Bacalhau a Bras is one of Portugal's most beloved salt cod dishes — shredded salt cod tangled with crispy matchstick ...
Other
Fast With Fish
Korean Seafood Pancake (Haemul Pajeon)
Haemul pajeon is the Korean seafood pancake — a crispy, golden disc loaded with scallions, shrimp, squid, and whateve...
Other
Fast With Fish
Jamaican Escovitch Fish with Pickled Vegetables
Escovitch fish is Jamaica's answer to escabeche — whole fish fried until shatteringly crisp, then draped in a tangle ...
Russian
Fast With Fish
Ukha (Russian Clear Fish Soup)
Ukha is one of the oldest dishes in Russian cuisine — a pristine, golden fish soup built from the bones and flesh of ...
Other
Fast With Fish
Seafood Paella with Fish, Shrimp, and Mussels
Paella is rice cooked in a wide, shallow pan until the bottom develops socarrat — a caramelized crust that is the ent...
Thai
Fast With Fish
Shrimp Pad Thai
Pad thai with shrimp is street food at its finest — rice noodles tossed in a slick of tamarind, palm sugar, and fish ...
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