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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...
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Today's Fast
August 08, 2026
No Fast — Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed
Repose of St Jacob Netsvetov, Enlightener of the Peoples of Alaska
Holy Hieromartyrs Hermolaus (305), Hermippus, and Hermocrates at Nicomedia / Holy Righteous Martyr Paraskeve (140)
Troparion: Holy Hieromartyr Hermolaus & Those With Him: Tone IV. In their sufferings, O Lord,/ Thy martyrs received imperishable crowns from Thee our God;/ for, possessed of Thy might,/ they set at nought the...
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Fasting Recipes
General
Xerophagy
Soaked Steel-Cut Oats with Tahini, Dates, and Sunflower Seeds
Strict-day breakfast is the hardest meal of a fast, because it comes before the discipline has settled into the day a...
General
Xerophagy
The Xerophagy Supper Plate — Bread, Bean Spread, and Raw Vegetables
Xerophagy — dry eating — is the strictest of the ordinary fasting disciplines: bread, water, raw or uncooked food, no...
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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 ...
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Fast With Oil
Split Pea and Barley Pot with Smoked Paprika
Split peas and barley cooked together produce a texture nothing else quite matches — the peas dissolve into a thick, ...
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Fast With Oil
Tofu Scramble with Turmeric, Peppers, and Black Salt
Fasting mornings are where discipline usually breaks, because there is nothing to eat that fills you. This fixes that...
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Fast With Oil
Coconut, Chickpea, and Butternut Curry with Spinach
A curry to make on a weeknight without a spice cabinet expedition — everything here is common, and the whole pot come...
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Fast With Oil
Lentil Shepherd's Pie with Mushroom Gravy
A shepherd's pie is a gravy problem with potatoes on top. Get the gravy right — dark, thick, savory enough to stand u...
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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...
General
Fast With Oil
Seitan and Root Vegetable Stew with Red Wine and Thyme
This is a braise in the full sense — browned protein, deglazed pan, long slow simmer, gravy thick enough to coat a sp...
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Fast With Oil
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...
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Fast With Oil
Smoky White Bean and Kale Skillet with Garlic Breadcrumbs
Beans and greens is one of the oldest fasting meals there is, and it survives because it works. What lifts this versi...
General
Fast With Oil
One-Pot Chickpea and Orzo with Lemon and Dill
This is a weeknight pot in the truest sense: one pan, twenty-five minutes, and nothing that needs watching. The orzo ...
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Fast With Oil
Crispy Baked Tofu with Peanut-Sesame Sauce
Tofu earns its reputation for blandness only when it is treated gently. Press it hard, toss it in cornstarch, and giv...
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Fast Without Oil
No-Oil Mushroom and Lentil Ragù for Pasta
A long-simmered ragù is normally built on fat, and this one is not, which means it has to earn its depth elsewhere. I...
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Fast Without Oil
No-Oil Black Bean and Hominy Stew with Chipotle and Lime
Hominy — dried corn treated with lime, sold canned as pozole corn — has a chew and a toasted-corn flavor that nothing...
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Fast Without Oil
No-Oil Chickpea and Cabbage Braise with Caraway and Mustard
Cabbage braised long enough stops being cabbage and becomes something sweet and almost silky. With chickpeas in the p...
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Fast Without Oil
No-Oil Red Lentil and Squash Pottage with Cumin and Lemon
Red lentils dissolve, and that is their gift. Simmered with squash until both collapse, they make a thick golden pott...
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Fast Without Oil
No-Oil Tofu and Vegetable Steam Bowl with Ginger-Soy Broth
Steaming is the most underused technique on strict days. Without oil, roasting and frying are closed to you, but stea...
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Fast Without Oil
The Weekly Bean Pot — One Batch, Three Suppers (No Oil)
The single most useful thing you can do for a long fast is cook a pot of beans on Sunday. Not a recipe so much as a f...
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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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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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Fast With Fish
Sheet-Pan Salmon with Chickpeas, Tomatoes, and Herbs
One pan, thirty minutes, and nothing to wash but the pan. The chickpeas and tomatoes go in first and roast until the ...
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Fast With Fish
Tuna and White Bean Salad with Red Onion, Lemon, and Parsley
Two cans and a lemon. This is the fasting lunch to keep in your head for the days when there is no time and no plan —...
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Fast With Fish
Pan-Seared White Fish with Lemon, Caper, and Parsley Sauce
Fish days in the fasting calendar — Annunciation, Palm Sunday, the Dormition fast's feast, most of the Apostles' fast...
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