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Gado-Gado — Indonesian Vegetable Salad with Peanut Sauce
Gado-gado means "mix-mix," and that is exactly what it is: a generous platter of blanched and raw vegetables, fried t...
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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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Fasting Recipes
Other
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Japanese Miso-Glazed Salmon
Miso-glazed salmon is one of those dishes that seems too good to be this simple. Salmon fillets marinate briefly in a...
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...
Middle Eastern
Fast With Oil
Fatteh with Eggplant
Fatteh is the Middle Eastern art of layering crispy bread with saucy things on top, and it is one of the most textura...
General
Fast Without Oil
No-Oil Mushroom, Barley, and White Bean Pot
This is a one-pot of pure umami: meaty mushrooms, chewy pearl barley, and creamy white beans all braised together unt...
General
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Sheet-Pan Roasted Vegetables and Butter Beans with Tahini Drizzle
The trick that makes this more than a tray of roasted vegetables is putting the beans on the pan too. They dry out at...
Greek
Fast With Fish
Mediterranean Sardines on Toast with Tomato and Capers
Sardines are one of the most underappreciated fish in the world — inexpensive, sustainable, extraordinarily nutritiou...
Serbian
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Teleća Čorba Posna — Fasting Vegetable Soup
This thick, hearty vegetable soup is the backbone of Serbian fasting meals. Loaded with root vegetables, potatoes, an...
Russian
Fast With Oil
Юшка з Квасолі та Гороху — Ukrainian Two-Pea Bean Soup with Dill
Every Slavic village kitchen keeps a sack of dried beans and a sack of yellow peas, and on fasting days they go into ...
Other
Xerophagy
Raw Beet and Carrot Salad with Lemon and Walnuts
Raw beets are sweeter than you expect, and they pair remarkably well with the earthiness of carrot and the bitterness...
Middle Eastern
Xerophagy
Raw Bread Salad with Tomatoes and Herbs (Fattoush-Style)
Fattoush is the great Levantine bread salad — torn pita mixed with tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, and herbs in a suma...
Russian
Fast With Oil
Гречневая Каша с Грибами — Buckwheat with Mushrooms
Buckwheat is practically a national staple in Russia and one of the best fasting grains — nutty, filling, and natural...
Russian
Fast Without Oil
Mushroom and Barley Stew
Mushroom and barley stew is the Russian grandmother's answer to the question of how to make something deeply satisfyi...
Other
Xerophagy
Stuffed Celery Boats with Almond Butter and Raisins
Ants on a log. That is what Americans call this when they make it with peanut butter for children. But strip away the...
Other
Fast Without Oil
Camarones al Ajillo (Garlic Shrimp)
Garlic shrimp is one of the great quick-fire dishes of the Spanish and Mexican kitchen — shrimp sizzling in a pool of...
Greek
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Ρεβιθάδα / Revithada (Slow-Cooked Chickpea Soup)
Revithada is the Sunday dish of Sifnos, the Cycladic island famous for its pottery and its chickpeas. Traditionally i...
Greek
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Γεμιστά — Gemista (Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers with Rice)
Gemista is the quintessential Greek summer dish and one of the finest things you can do with ripe tomatoes. Hollowed-...
Greek
Fast With Fish
Greek-Style Baked Whole Fish with Lemon and Oregano
This is the dish that appears on every Greek table on the Annunciation and Palm Sunday — a whole fish, scored and rub...
Georgian
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Жареные баклажаны с ореховым соусом (Fried Eggplant with Bazhe Walnut Sauce)
Bazhe is the great white walnut sauce of Georgian cuisine — silky, garlicky, sharpened with vinegar, and poured gener...
Other
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Undhiyu — Gujarati Winter Vegetable and Bean Casserole
Undhiyu is Gujarat's great winter feast in a single pot — surti papdi (broad flat beans), purple yam, baby potatoes, ...
Other
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Garbanzos con Espinacas — Spanish Chickpeas and Spinach with Smoked Paprika
This Andalusian classic — garbanzos con espinacas — is what Seville eats during Lent, and it is proof that fasting fo...
Other
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Squid Ink Risotto
Black, dramatic, and deeply savory — squid ink risotto is one of the most striking dishes you can serve during a fast...
Other
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Dal Tadka (Red Lentil Dal with Tempered Spices)
Dal tadka is the backbone of Indian home cooking — red lentils simmered to a silky porridge, then hit with a sizzling...
Russian
Fast Without Oil
Грибна Гречка з Цибулею — Buckwheat Pilaf with Mushrooms and Onions
Buckwheat (гречка) is the grain that built the Russian and Ukrainian peasant constitution — toasty, nutty, and unusua...
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...
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