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Tinga de Setas — Smoky Chipotle Mushroom and Bean Tacos
Tinga is one of the great street foods of Puebla — strands of meat braised in a smoky, sweet-sour sauce of tomato, on...
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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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Бефстроганов — Beef Stroganoff
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Georgian
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სოკო ნიგვზის საწებელით — Mushrooms in Garlic-Walnut Sauce
Georgians treat mushrooms with the same reverence they give meat, and on fast days a skillet of browned mushrooms clo...
Georgian
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ლობიო ნიგვზით — Walnut Lobio with Pomegranate and Coriander
Lobio is Georgia's great bean dish, and it shifts shape from house to house. This is the walnut version — kidney bean...
Russian
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Малосольные Огурцы — Russian Half-Sour Salt-Brined Cucumbers
Malosol'nie ogurtsy — "lightly salted cucumbers" — are the quintessential Russian summer pickle. Not a vinegar pickle...
Other
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Pickled Beets with Horseradish (Ukrainian Style)
Ukrainian and southern Russian tradition — pickled beets with horseradish, called "khrin" when it is mostly horseradi...
Russian
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Маринованные Опята — Russian Marinated Honey Mushrooms
Marinated mushrooms are the most distinctly Russian of all pickles. Every autumn in every Russian forest, people harv...
Middle Eastern
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Turşu — Balkan and Middle Eastern Mixed Vinegar Pickles
Turşu (also written torshi, turshi, or tursija) is the preserved vegetable condiment of a huge region — from Iran thr...
Other
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Giardiniera (Italian Mixed Pickled Vegetables)
Giardiniera — "the gardener's pickle" — is the Italian answer to the question of what to do with the end-of-season ga...
Romanian
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Murături de Castraveți — Romanian Vinegar-Brined Cucumber Pickles
Murături is the Romanian word for pickled vegetables, and the winter pantry of every Romanian grandmother is lined wi...
Other
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Quick Pickled Red Onions
The single most useful pickle in any kitchen. Forty minutes from scratch, keeps a month in the fridge, brightens ever...
Other
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Classic Refrigerator Dill Pickles (Quick Vinegar Method)
Every fasting pantry needs pickles. They deliver acid, salt, and crunch — three things plant-based Lenten meals often...
Other
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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
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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...
Middle Eastern
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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...
Georgian
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ლობიანი მარხვისა — Lobiani Marhvisa (Fasting Georgian Bean Bread)
Every Orthodox tradition has a bread that does the work of a meal. In Georgia, that bread is lobiani — a round loaf s...
Greek
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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...
Other
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Post-Training Protein Bowl — Oats, Pea Protein, Peanut Butter, and Banana
Seventy grams of plant protein in a single bowl, ready in five minutes, fully fasting-compliant on oil days. This is ...
Greek
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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
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Three-Bean Fasting Chili with Smoked Paprika
A pot of chili fills the house with the smell of a long afternoon of cooking, even when it has only been simmering fo...
Other
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Pasta Aglio e Olio with Wilted Greens
The five-ingredient weeknight meal that has bailed out every tired cook in every fasting season. Olive oil, garlic, c...
Russian
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Щи Постные — Fasting Shchi (Sauerkraut and Cabbage Soup)
Shchi is the soul of the Russian table. The meat version is famous, but the fasting version — postnye shchi — is what...
Other
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Squid Ink Risotto
Black, dramatic, and deeply savory — squid ink risotto is one of the most striking dishes you can serve during a fast...
Thai
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Pad Kra Pao with Tofu (Thai Holy Basil Stir-Fry)
Pad kra pao is the most eaten dish in Thailand — the one every office worker orders from every street stall every day...
Serbian
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Pasulj sa Suvim Sljivama (Serbian Bean Stew with Prunes)
This is one of Serbia's most distinctive fasting dishes — white beans simmered with prunes in a smoky, paprika-rich b...
Romanian
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Dovlecel la Cuptor (Romanian Oven-Roasted Zucchini with Garlic)
Romanians have an unshakable love for zucchini, and this is the simplest, most satisfying expression of it. Thick rou...
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