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Apple and Celery with Peanut Butter
This is not glamorous. A sliced apple, some celery sticks, and a scoop of peanut butter — it sounds like a child's af...
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Today's Fast
April 11, 2026
Lenten Fast — Wine is Allowed
Great and Holy Saturday
Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum / Holy Martyrs Processus and Martinian (1st c.)
Troparion: Great and Holy Saturday: Tone II. Noble Joseph ... When Thou, the Deathless Life, didst go down to death, then didst Thou slay hell by the lightning flash of Thy Divinity. And when Thou didst raise...
Fasting Recipes
Romanian
Fast With Oil
Mămăligă cu Ciuperci (Polenta with Mushroom Stew)
Mămăligă is to Romania what bread is to France — the foundation upon which everything else rests. During fasting, whe...
Georgian
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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 Fish
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...
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-...
Middle Eastern
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Fattoush (فتوش) — Levantine Bread Salad
Fattoush is the Levantine bread salad — crispy pieces of fried or toasted pita tossed with fresh vegetables and a bri...
Romanian
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Ciorbă de Fasole / Bean and Vegetable Soup
Romanian ciorbă de fasole is a sour bean soup that needs absolutely no oil to be magnificent. The sourness comes from...
Middle Eastern
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Falafel (فلافل)
Falafel is fried chickpea patties — crispy, deeply herbed, and one of the most satisfying fasting foods in existence....
Georgian
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Аджапсандали (Ajapsandali — Georgian Vegetable Stew)
Ajapsandali is Georgia's answer to ratatouille, and it wins the argument. Where the French version aims for delicacy,...
Romanian
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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...
Greek
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Μουσακάς Νηστίσιμος — Fasting Moussaka
A proper fasting moussaka that does not apologize for itself. Layers of fried eggplant and a rich lentil-tomato sauce...
Russian
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Картошка с Грибами — Potatoes with Mushrooms
There is nothing fancy about жареная картошка с грибами, and that is entirely the point. Pan-fried potatoes with mush...
Greek
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Μπριάμ / Briam (Greek Roasted Vegetables)
Briam is the Greek answer to ratatouille, though Greeks would argue the comparison should run the other direction. It...
Other
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Tuna Poke Bowl
Poke is Hawaii's gift to the world — cubes of raw tuna tossed in soy sauce, sesame oil, and chili, served over rice w...
Other
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Chana Masala (Indian Chickpea Curry)
Chana masala is the undisputed king of Indian street food, and it happens to be one of the most protein-dense fasting...
Other
Xerophagy
Dates Stuffed with Walnuts
This is a Middle Eastern monastic staple that has sustained desert monks for centuries. Medjool dates are nature's ca...
Russian
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Кутья / Сочиво — Christmas Eve Wheat Berry Dish
Кутья is among the most ancient dishes in Slavic Orthodox tradition, served on Christmas Eve (Сочельник), at memorial...
Middle Eastern
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Shakshuka with Tofu
All the warmth and spice of classic shakshuka — cumin-spiked tomato sauce, smoky peppers, a hit of harissa — but with...
Other
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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
Xerophagy
Sochivo — Christmas Eve Wheat with Honey and Poppy Seeds
Sochivo (also called kutia or kolivo depending on the tradition) is the ritual dish of Christmas Eve — the last and m...
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...
Middle Eastern
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Hummus (حمص)
Real hummus — the kind eaten daily across Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine — is made from dried chickpeas, not canned. T...
Serbian
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Пинђур / Pindjur (Roasted Pepper and Eggplant Spread)
Pindjur is ajvar's rougher, smokier cousin from southern Serbia and Macedonia. Where ajvar is mostly pepper, pindjur ...
Romanian
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Dovlecei Pane de Post — Fasting Fried Zucchini
Dovlecei pane are Romania's answer to fried zucchini, and the fasting version replaces the egg batter with a sparklin...
Russian
Fast With Fish
Baked Trout with Dill and Lemon
This is the Russian way with trout — straightforward and perfect. A whole trout (or fillets, if you prefer), stuffed ...
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