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Xerophagy
Overnight Soaked Oats with Berries and Almonds
Here is the xerophagy controversy you will encounter online: are overnight oats "cooked"? The answer, practically spe...
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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
Serbian
Fast With Oil
Ђувеч / Djuvec (Vegetable Rice Casserole)
Djuvec is the Balkan answer to the question "what do you do with all these peppers and tomatoes?" Rice baked slowly w...
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...
Serbian
Fast With Oil
Паприкаш од Гљива / Paprikaš od Gljiva (Mushroom Paprikash)
Paprikash is normally a rich meat stew bound with sour cream. The fasting version swaps meat for mushrooms and thicke...
Georgian
Fast With Oil
მწვანე ლობიო ფხალი — Green Bean Pkhali
Pkhali is Georgia's answer to the question of how to make vegetables genuinely exciting. Green beans are blended with...
Other
Fast With Oil
Quick Pickled Red Onions
The single most useful pickle in any kitchen. Forty minutes from scratch, keeps a month in the fridge, brightens ever...
Thai
Fast With Fish
Fish Curry with Coconut Milk
A Thai-inspired fish curry built on coconut milk, red curry paste, and lime — rich, fragrant, and ready in twenty min...
Romanian
Fast With Oil
Ciorbă de Ciuperci — Mushroom Sour Soup
Romanian ciorbă gets its signature tang from borș (fermented wheat bran liquid), and when you build it on a base of d...
Other
Fast With Oil
Jamaican Rice and Peas
Jamaican rice and peas is one of the Caribbean's greatest contributions to the world's table — long-grain rice cooked...
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
Xerophagy
Trail Mix for Fasting Days
This is the most portable and calorie-dense xerophagy food you can prepare. A bag of this in your pocket gets you thr...
Greek
Fast Without Oil
No-Oil Gigantes and Greens Braised in Tomato
Greek giant beans are usually swimming in olive oil — but stripped back to tomato, garlic, and a fistful of wild gree...
Greek
Fast Without Oil
Squid Stuffed with Rice and Herbs
Stuffed squid is a classic of the Greek islands, and it works beautifully without oil. The squid tubes become tender ...
Other
Fast With Oil
Spanish Patatas Bravas with Spicy Tomato Sauce
Patatas bravas is the essential Spanish tapa — crispy fried potato cubes served with a bold, smoky-spicy tomato sauce...
Other
Fast Without Oil
Shrimp Boil with Corn and Potatoes
A proper Southern shrimp boil is one of the most satisfying one-pot meals in American cooking, and it requires absolu...
Georgian
Xerophagy
კომბოსტოს ფხალი — Raw Cabbage and Walnut Pkhali Salad
On the strictest fasting days — when nothing is cooked and no oil touches the plate — Georgia still eats well. This r...
Other
Fast With Oil
Chestnut and Dried Fruit Plov — Azerbaijani Lenten Rice Pilaf
Azerbaijani plov is built in layers — fragrant saffron rice steamed to separate grains, served alongside a sweet-savo...
Russian
Fast With Oil
Solyanka with Mushrooms and Olives
Solyanka is one of Russia's great soups — tangy, salty, smoky, and layered with bold flavors that hit every corner of...
Other
Fast With Oil
Tempe Sambal Goreng — Indonesian Fried Tempeh in Chili Tomato Sauce
Sambal goreng tempe is the kind of dish that makes you understand why tempeh exists. Cubes of nutty, fermented soybea...
Thai
Fast With Oil
Red Curry with Mixed Vegetables and Tofu
Red curry is the everyday workhorse of Thai fasting cooking. It is faster than massaman, more versatile than panang, ...
Other
Fast Without Oil
Doenjang Jjigae — Korean Soybean Paste and Tofu Stew
Doenjang jjigae is the everyday stew of the Korean table — a bubbling earthenware pot of fermented soybean paste brot...
Middle Eastern
Xerophagy
Soaked Lentil Tabbouleh with Cracked Wheat and Herbs
Most tabbouleh is mostly parsley. This one keeps the avalanche of herbs but folds in soaked-not-cooked brown lentils ...
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...
General
Fast With Oil
Mushroom and Walnut Meatballs in Tomato Sauce
Walnuts and mushrooms together do something that neither does alone — the mushrooms bring glutamate and moisture, the...
Georgian
Fast Without Oil
პრასის ფხალი — Leek Pkhali with Walnuts and Marigold
Pkhali is the cornerstone of the Georgian fasting table — a paste of cooked vegetable bound with pounded walnuts, gar...
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