Romanian
Fast Without Oil
Polenta with Water-Sauteed Mushroom Ragu
Mamaliga — polenta — is the staff of life in Romanian cooking, and during Lent it replaces bread at most meals. Cooke...
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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
Non Fasting
Fasting Recipes
Other
Xerophagy
Raw Sprouted Chickpea Spread
Hummus is one of the great fasting foods, but traditional hummus requires cooking the chickpeas and adding tahini (ma...
Other
Fast Without Oil
Rasam with Toor Dal — South Indian Pepper and Tamarind Broth (No Oil)
Rasam is the thin, peppery, tamarind-sour broth that closes a South Indian meal and revives anyone who is tired, cold...
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...
Romanian
Fast With Oil
Iahnie de Fasole — Bean Stew
Iahnie de fasole is Romania's national comfort food during fasting periods, and it deserves to be known far beyond it...
Other
Fast With Oil
Pasta e Ceci — Roman Pasta and Chickpea Stew with Rosemary
Pasta e ceci is Rome's other great pasta-and-bean soup, less famous abroad than pasta e fagioli but every bit as belo...
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