Greek
Fast With Oil
Λουβάνα — Cypriot Yellow Split Pea Soup with Lemon and Olive Oil
Louvana is the Cypriot fasting soup — a thick, golden purée of yellow split peas eaten through Lent and on the strict...
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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
Romanian
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Other
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Fish and Chips (Beer-Battered Cod, Fasting-Style)
Fish and chips is the ultimate fish-day comfort food — a thick fillet of cod in a shatteringly crisp beer batter, ser...
Other
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Vospov Kofte — Armenian Red Lentil and Bulgur Patties
Vospov kofte are the workhorse of the Armenian Lenten table — red lentils cooked down to a soft mash, kneaded with fi...
Middle Eastern
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Koshari (كشري) — Egyptian Street Food
Koshari is the national dish of Egypt — a magnificent, chaotic pile of rice, lentils, macaroni pasta, and chickpeas, ...
Greek
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Χόρτα / Horta (Boiled Wild Greens)
Horta is the simplest dish in this collection and, for many Greeks, the most essential. It is nothing more than boile...
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...
Thai
Fast With Fish
Thai Fish Cakes (Tod Mun Pla)
Tod mun pla — Thai fish cakes — are addictive little patties of pounded fish, red curry paste, green beans, and lime ...
Georgian
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Ткемали (Tkemali — Georgian Sour Plum Sauce)
Tkemali is to Georgian cooking what ketchup is to American cooking, except that it is vastly more interesting and has...
Other
Xerophagy
Raw Sauerkraut and Bread
Fermented cabbage is a pillar of Slavic xerophagy — Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, and Bulgarian monasteries all rely o...
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...
Romanian
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Tocană de Cartofi cu Ciuperci (Potato and Mushroom Stew)
This is the stew that appears when the pantry is nearly bare and the fast still has weeks to run. Potatoes and mushro...
Russian
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Маринованные Опята — Russian Marinated Honey Mushrooms
Marinated mushrooms are the most distinctly Russian of all pickles. Every autumn in every Russian forest, people harv...
Greek
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Φακές Σούπα / Fakes Soupa (Greek Lentil Soup)
If fassolada is the national dish, fakes is the monastery staple. Every monastery kitchen in Greece makes lentil soup...
Other
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Dan Dan Mian — Sichuan Tofu and Sesame Noodles
Dan dan noodles are Sichuan street food at its most addictive — chewy wheat noodles pooled in a slick of chili oil, b...
Other
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Frijoles Negros a la Cubana — Cuban Black Beans and Rice
Cuban black beans are slow-simmered until the broth turns thick and almost velvety, perfumed with a sofrito of green ...
Serbian
Fast With Fish
Serbian Fish Paprikash
Fish paprikash is the pride of Serbia's Danube and Sava river regions — a thick, brick-red stew of freshwater fish si...
Russian
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Постные Пирожки с Капустой — Fasting Cabbage Pies
These small hand pies filled with braised cabbage are the pride of Russian fasting baking. The dough uses no eggs, no...
Serbian
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Посна Пита / Posna Pita (Fasting Phyllo Pie)
Pita (pie) is a daily staple across the Balkans. The regular version uses eggs, cheese, and sometimes milk-soaked phy...
Other
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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
Xerophagy
Gazpacho-Style Raw Tomato Soup
Traditional Spanish gazpacho contains olive oil and bread. This xerophagy version strips it back to its raw essence: ...
Other
Fast With Oil
Chana Saag — Chickpea and Spinach Masala
This is what happens when you put chickpeas and a mountain of spinach into the same pot and let them get to know each...
Other
Fast With Fish
Moroccan Fish Tagine with Preserved Lemons
A Moroccan tagine with fish is a stunning one-pot meal — chunks of firm white fish braised in a spiced tomato and oli...
Russian
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Окрошка Постная — Fasting Okroshka
Cold kvass soup sounds strange until you try it, and then you wonder why every culture does not have one. This fastin...
Other
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Steamed Vegetable Dumplings
Chinese jiaozi — dumplings — are one of the great engineering feats of home cooking: a thin wheat wrapper enclosing a...
Middle Eastern
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Kibbeh with Bulgur and Walnut
Traditional kibbeh demands lamb, but this Lenten version is built on a shell of fine bulgur and a filling of walnuts,...
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