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...
Бефстроганов — Beef Stroganoff
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Бефстроганов — Beef Stroganoff

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Shrimp and White Bean Skillet with Garlic, Chili, and Lemon
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 ...

Fish and White Bean Chowder with Fennel and Leek
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 ...

Sheet-Pan Salmon with Chickpeas, Tomatoes, and Herbs
General 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 ...

Tuna and White Bean Salad with Red Onion, Lemon, and Parsley
General 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 —...

Pan-Seared White Fish with Lemon, Caper, and Parsley Sauce
General 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...

Asam Pedas Ikan — Malaysian Sour and Spicy Fish Stew
Other Fast With Fish

Asam Pedas Ikan — Malaysian Sour and Spicy Fish Stew

Asam pedas means "sour and spicy," and this Malaysian classic delivers both with full force. Chunks of firm fish simm...

Bakaliaros Skordalia — Greek Fried Salt Cod with Garlic Purée
Greek Fast With Fish

Bakaliaros Skordalia — Greek Fried Salt Cod with Garlic Purée

Bakaliaros skordalia is the dish Greeks reach for on the Annunciation and Palm Sunday — the two great fish days that ...

Merluza en Salsa Verde — Hake in Spanish Green Sauce
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Merluza en Salsa Verde — Hake in Spanish Green Sauce

Merluza en salsa verde is a Basque classic and one of the most elegant things you can do with white fish. Thick hake ...

Brown Stew Fish — Jamaican Snapper in Spiced Gravy
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Brown Stew Fish — Jamaican Snapper in Spiced Gravy

Caribbean brown stew fish is comfort cooking at full volume. Whole snapper or thick fillets are seasoned with thyme, ...

Godeungeo Jorim — Korean Braised Mackerel with Radish
Other Fast With Fish

Godeungeo Jorim — Korean Braised Mackerel with Radish

Jorim is the Korean art of braising in a glossy, savory-sweet soy sauce until the protein soaks up everything around ...

Doi Maach — Bengali Yogurt Fish Curry
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Doi Maach — Bengali Yogurt Fish Curry

Doi maach is the kind of dish that makes a fish day feel like a feast. Pieces of firm white fish are simmered in a sa...

Sinigang na Bangus — Filipino Sour Tamarind Soup with Milkfish
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Sinigang na Bangus — Filipino Sour Tamarind Soup with Milkfish

Sinigang is the comforting sour soup at the heart of Filipino home cooking — a clear, tamarind-soured broth crowded w...

Saba Shioyaki — Japanese Salt-Grilled Mackerel
Other Fast With Fish

Saba Shioyaki — Japanese Salt-Grilled Mackerel

Saba shioyaki is the quiet backbone of the Japanese home meal: a mackerel fillet salted, rested, and grilled until th...

Hamsi Pilavı — Turkish Black Sea Anchovy Rice
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Hamsi Pilavı — Turkish Black Sea Anchovy Rice

On the Black Sea coast, the hamsi — fresh anchovy — is almost a religion, and hamsi pilavı is its grandest expression...

Sgombro alla Griglia — Italian Grilled Mackerel with Salmoriglio
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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....

Gravlax — Scandinavian Dill-Cured Salmon
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Gravlax — Scandinavian Dill-Cured Salmon

Gravlax is the great trick of the Nordic kitchen: raw salmon buried in salt, sugar, and a forest of dill, left to cur...

Psari Plaki — Greek Baked Cod with Tomato, Onion, and Olive Oil
Greek Fast With Fish

Psari Plaki — Greek Baked Cod with Tomato, Onion, and Olive Oil

Psari plaki is the everyday baked fish of Greek home kitchens — thick fillets of cod nestled into a bed of slow-cooke...

Greek Shrimp in Tomato Sauce with Herbs (Garides Saganaki)
Greek Fast With Fish

Greek Shrimp in Tomato Sauce with Herbs (Garides Saganaki)

Garides saganaki is one of the great Greek taverna dishes — plump shrimp baked in a bubbling, herb-spiked tomato sauc...

Vietnamese Caramelized Fish in Clay Pot (Ca Kho To)
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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...

Portuguese Salt Cod with Potatoes and Onions (Bacalhau a Bras Style)
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Portuguese Salt Cod with Potatoes and Onions (Bacalhau a Bras Style)

Bacalhau a Bras is one of Portugal's most beloved salt cod dishes — shredded salt cod tangled with crispy matchstick ...

Korean Seafood Pancake (Haemul Pajeon)
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Korean Seafood Pancake (Haemul Pajeon)

Haemul pajeon is the Korean seafood pancake — a crispy, golden disc loaded with scallions, shrimp, squid, and whateve...

Jamaican Escovitch Fish with Pickled Vegetables
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Jamaican Escovitch Fish with Pickled Vegetables

Escovitch fish is Jamaica's answer to escabeche — whole fish fried until shatteringly crisp, then draped in a tangle ...

Bouillabaisse (Provençal Fish Stew)
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Bouillabaisse (Provençal Fish Stew)

Bouillabaisse is the great fish stew of Marseille — a saffron-scented broth teeming with multiple types of fish and s...

Serbian Fish Paprikash
Serbian Fast With Fish

Serbian Fish Paprikash

Fish paprikash is the pride of Serbia's Danube and Sava river regions — a thick, brick-red stew of freshwater fish si...

Tuna Poke Bowl
Other Fast With Fish

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...

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