General
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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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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...
Recipe of the Day
Бефстроганов — Beef Stroganoff
Russian
Non Fasting
Fasting Recipes
General
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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, ...
General
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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...
General
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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...
General
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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...
General
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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
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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...
General
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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...
General
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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
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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 ...
General
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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...
Middle Eastern
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Khoresh-e Gheymeh-ye Lapeh — Persian Split Pea and Tomato Stew with Dried Lime
Gheymeh is one of Iran's beloved stews — traditionally built on small cubes of meat, but the yellow split peas were a...
Middle Eastern
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Adas Polo — Persian Lentil Rice with Dates and Caramelized Onion
Adas polo layers tender brown lentils through fluffy saffron rice, then studs the whole thing with sweet dates and ra...
Middle Eastern
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Āsh-e Reshteh — Persian Bean, Lentil, and Noodle Soup
Āsh-e reshteh is the great green soup of Persia — thick with chickpeas, kidney beans, and lentils, threaded with whea...
Other
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Nasi Goreng with Tofu and Sambal
Nasi goreng is Indonesia's national fried rice, and the fasting version loses nothing. Day-old rice is stir-fried har...
Other
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Gado-Gado — Indonesian Vegetable Salad with Peanut Sauce
Gado-gado means "mix-mix," and that is exactly what it is: a generous platter of blanched and raw vegetables, fried t...
Other
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Tempe Sambal Goreng — Indonesian Fried Tempeh in Chili Tomato Sauce
Sambal goreng tempe is the kind of dish that makes you understand why tempeh exists. Cubes of nutty, fermented soybea...
Other
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Undhiyu — Gujarati Winter Vegetable and Bean Casserole
Undhiyu is Gujarat's great winter feast in a single pot — surti papdi (broad flat beans), purple yam, baby potatoes, ...
Other
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Pesarattu — Andhra Green Gram Crepes with Ginger and Chili
Pesarattu is a dosa made not from rice and urad but from whole green mung beans, which means it arrives at the table ...
Other
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Avial — Kerala Mixed Vegetables in Coconut and Curry Leaf
Avial is the centerpiece of the Kerala sadya, the great banana-leaf feast, and it earns that place. A medley of firm ...
Other
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Açorda Alentejana de Grão — Portuguese Garlic Bread Soup with Chickpeas
Açorda is the Alentejo's answer to having almost nothing in the house and eating like a king anyway — stale bread, a ...
Other
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Farinata Genovese — Ligurian Chickpea Pancake with Rosemary
Farinata is the genius of Liguria reduced to four ingredients: chickpea flour, water, olive oil, and salt, baked scre...
Other
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Escalivada con Alubias Blancas — Catalan Charred Vegetables with White Beans
Escalivada is the Catalan art of charring vegetables whole until their skins blacken and their flesh turns sweet and ...
Other
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Lentejas a la Española — Spanish Lentil Stew with Smoked Paprika
Lentejas is the everyday stew of Spanish home kitchens — a deep, brick-red pot of brown lentils built on a sofrito of...
Romanian
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Kapusniak z Kvasoleyu — Ukrainian Sauerkraut and White Bean Soup
Kapusniak is the sour cabbage soup that holds the Ukrainian winter table together. The sourness of sauerkraut against...
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