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 ...
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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
General
Fast Without Oil
Toor Dal with Dry-Toasted Spices (No-Oil Tarka)
A good dal does not need oil to taste rich — it needs spices that have been woken up by heat. Here the cumin, mustard...
Other
Fast With Oil
Focaccia al Rosmarino with Olives (Italian Fasting Flatbread)
Focaccia is the most forgiving bread in the world. It wants a lot of olive oil, a lot of salt, and a sharp oven. It d...
Serbian
Fast Without Oil
Posni Punjeni Krompir — Serbian Stuffed Potatoes with Mushrooms and Walnuts
Across Serbia the fasting cook is a master of making something special out of nothing much, and these baked stuffed p...
Middle Eastern
Fast With Oil
منقوشة بالزعتر — Manakish Za'atar (Lebanese Herb Flatbread)
Manakish is breakfast across Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan. A thin, round flatbread baked with a topping of z...
Other
Fast With Oil
Topik — Armenian Chickpea and Potato Lenten Dumpling
Topik is a Lenten showpiece from the Armenian table of Constantinople — a smooth shell of mashed chickpea and potato ...
Russian
Xerophagy
Чёрный Хлеб — 100% Rye Sourdough (Russian Black Bread)
The dark, dense, sour loaf that has anchored the Russian fasting table for a thousand years. Not a wheat bread with r...
Other
Fast With Fish
Bouillabaisse (Provençal Fish Stew)
Bouillabaisse is the great fish stew of Marseille — a saffron-scented broth teeming with multiple types of fish and s...
Romanian
Fast With Oil
Cozonac de Post — Fasting Sweet Bread
Cozonac is Romania's beloved holiday sweet bread, and the fasting version is a triumph of technique over restriction....
Russian
Fast With Oil
Грибной Строганов — Mushroom Stroganoff
Forget everything you know about stroganoff needing sour cream. This version uses a silky cashew base and deeply brow...
General
Xerophagy
Цвекло с Боб — Bulgarian Beet and White Bean Salad with Garlic
On the strictest fasting days — the ones that call for xerophagy, when even cooked food and oil are set aside — you s...
General
Fast With Oil
Roasted Cauliflower and Lentil Salad with Tahini and Pomegranate
Warm lentils, charred cauliflower, cold pomegranate, and a tahini dressing thick enough to coat everything — this is ...
Greek
Fast With Fish
Grilled Octopus with Lemon and Oregano
Grilled octopus is one of the defining dishes of the Greek islands — tender tentacles charred over high heat, dressed...
Other
Fast With Oil
Japanese Miso Soup with Tofu and Seaweed
Miso soup is one of the simplest and most nourishing fasting meals in existence — fermented soybean paste dissolved i...
Other
Fast With Oil
Feijoada Vegana — Brazilian Black Bean and Smoked Tofu Stew
Feijoada is Brazil's national dish, a deep, smoky black bean stew that simmers all afternoon and feeds a table for da...
General
Xerophagy
Marinated Raw Cabbage and Carrot Slaw with Caraway
A raw slaw can be watery and dull or it can be this: cabbage and carrot massaged with salt until they slump and turn ...
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
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 Oil
Fasting Pizza Marinara (Neapolitan Tomato Pizza, No Cheese)
Pizza marinara is not "vegan pizza" or "pizza without cheese." It is one of the two original pizzas of Naples — the o...
Other
Fast With Oil
Cajun-Style Shrimp and Okra Gumbo
Gumbo is Louisiana's defining dish, and this version proves that fasting food can be as bold and layered as anything ...
Greek
Fast With Oil
Καλαμάρια με Πατάτες — Kalamari me Patates (Squid and Potato Stew in Tomato)
One of the great Greek fasting dishes and a well-kept Orthodox secret. Squid is a shellfish — an invertebrate — and t...
Other
Xerophagy
Raw Vegetable Platter with Avocado Dip
Tahini requires processing and sometimes roasting of the sesame seeds, and hummus requires cooked chickpeas — so the ...
Thai
Fast With Oil
Tom Kha with Tofu — Coconut Galangal Soup
Tom kha is the gentler, creamier sibling of tom yum — a coconut milk soup perfumed with galangal, lemongrass, and lim...
Greek
Fast With Oil
Λαγάνα — Lagana (Greek Clean Monday Flatbread)
Lagana is the bread of Clean Monday (Καθαρά Δευτέρα), the first day of Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox tradition. By...
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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