General
Xerophagy
No-Cook Sunflower-Date Energy Bars with Hemp and Cocoa
These bars are built for the hardest fasting days — no oil, no baking, no dairy, just dates pressed together with raw...
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Today's Fast
June 15, 2026
Apostles Fast
Prophet Amos; St Jonah, Metr. of Moscow
Prophet Amos / St Jonah, Metr. of Moscow / Holy Prophet Amos (8th c. BC)
Troparion: St. Nicephorus the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople: Tone IV. The truth of things revealed thee to thy flock as a rule of faith,/ a model of meekness and a teacher of abstinence/ wherefore th...
Recipe of the Day
Καλαμάρια με Πατάτες — Kalamari me Patates (Squid and Potato Stew in Tomato)
Greek
Fast With Oil
Fasting Recipes
General
Xerophagy
No-Oil White Bean and Roasted Garlic Dip with Lemon and Parsley
A bean dip needs neither oil nor tahini to be rich — soft cooked white beans blended with their own starchy liquid tu...
Other
Xerophagy
Sprouted Lentil and Tomato Salad with Sumac and Mint
Sprouting transforms a hard dry lentil into something soft enough to eat raw, with a fresh green snap and a noticeabl...
General
Xerophagy
Raw Kohlrabi and Walnut Salad with Lemon and Dill
Kohlrabi eaten raw is a revelation — crisp and juicy like a cross between an apple and a radish, with none of the sul...
General
Xerophagy
Overnight Soaked Buckwheat Bowl with Apple, Walnut, and Cinnamon
Raw buckwheat groats turn soft and pleasantly chewy after a night in cold water — no cooking, no oil, no heat. By mor...
Middle Eastern
Xerophagy
Mirza Ghasemi-Style Smoked Eggplant and Tomato Mezze
Mirza ghasemi is the smoky pride of northern Iran's Caspian coast — eggplants charred until their flesh collapses int...
Other
Xerophagy
Baltic Soaked Barley and White Bean Bowl with Dill and Caraway
On the strictest fasting days — no oil, no cooking — you still need to eat something that fuels you, and a bowl of so...
Georgian
Xerophagy
Chakapuli Lobios — Georgian Green Herb and White Bean Stew
Chakapuli is the great spring stew of Georgia — a riot of tarragon, fresh herbs, green onions, and the sharp sourness...
General
Xerophagy
Marinated Raw Cabbage and Carrot Slaw with Caraway
A raw slaw can be watery and dull or it can be this: cabbage and carrot massaged with salt until they slump and turn ...
General
Xerophagy
No-Cook Almond and Date Power Squares
These are dense, chewy, and serious — built to carry you through a long fasting day or a stretch of services without ...
Other
Xerophagy
Sprouted Mung Bean Salad with Lemon, Chili, and Ginger
Sprouting transforms a dried mung bean into something crisp, sweet, and alive — and it nearly doubles the available p...
General
Xerophagy
Oil-Free White Bean Purée with Lemon and Cumin
A bean purée without a drop of oil sounds like it would be flat. It isn't — the trick is using the bean's own starchy...
Middle Eastern
Xerophagy
Soaked Lentil Tabbouleh with Cracked Wheat and Herbs
Most tabbouleh is mostly parsley. This one keeps the avalanche of herbs but folds in soaked-not-cooked brown lentils ...
General
Xerophagy
Цвекло с Боб — Bulgarian Beet and White Bean Salad with Garlic
On the strictest fasting days — the ones that call for xerophagy, when even cooked food and oil are set aside — you s...
Middle Eastern
Xerophagy
Soaked Bulgur, Chickpea, and Herb Mezze with Sumac and Pomegranate
This is a strict-day plate that asks nothing of the stove. Fine bulgur is soaked cold until tender, then tossed with ...
Georgian
Xerophagy
კომბოსტოს ფხალი — Raw Cabbage and Walnut Pkhali Salad
On the strictest fasting days — when nothing is cooked and no oil touches the plate — Georgia still eats well. This r...
Russian
Xerophagy
Свекольный Квас — Beet Kvass (Ukrainian-Russian Lacto-Fermented Beet Tonic)
Beet kvass is the other kvass — the one without bread, the one that does not need yeast, the one that Ukrainian and s...
Romanian
Xerophagy
Turşu Fermentat — Romanian Lacto-Fermented Winter Pickles
Beyond the vinegar murături, there is a Romanian tradition of proper lacto-fermented pickles — turşu fermentat or mur...
Russian
Xerophagy
Квас — Russian Fermented Rye Bread Kvass
Kvass is the oldest Slavic fermented drink — predating Christianity in the region and thoroughly adopted by the Ortho...
Other
Xerophagy
Ukrainian Sauerkraut with Apples and Beets
Ukrainian sauerkraut traditions are rich and varied. This version includes grated apple for sweetness and enzyme acti...
Serbian
Xerophagy
Kiseli Kupus — Serbian Whole-Head Fermented Cabbage
Serbian tradition does not shred the cabbage. The whole head goes into brine and ferments as a solid cabbage, slowly,...
Other
Xerophagy
Kapusta Kiszona z Kminkiem — Polish Sauerkraut with Caraway and Juniper
Polish sauerkraut is closer to the German style than the Russian — no carrots or berries — but with the distinctive a...
Russian
Xerophagy
Квашеная Капуста — Russian Sauerkraut with Carrots and Cranberries
The classic Russian sauerkraut. Carrots add sweetness and color; cranberries or lingonberries (klyukva or brusnika) a...
Other
Xerophagy
Classic German-Style Sauerkraut (Cabbage and Salt Only)
This is the simplest sauerkraut in the world. Two ingredients — cabbage and salt — fermented for 2-4 weeks. No vinega...
Other
Xerophagy
Ruisleipä — Finnish Karelian Sour Rye Rounds
The sourest rye bread in Europe. Finnish ruisleipä is a 100% rye sourdough shaped into flat discs with a hole in the ...
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