General
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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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
Greek
Fast With Oil
Φασολάκια / Fasolakia (Green Beans in Tomato Sauce)
Fasolakia is one of the foundational ladera dishes — green beans braised long and slow in tomato sauce and olive oil ...
Other
Fast With Oil
Japanese Edamame and Sesame Rice Bowl
This is a quiet, clean bowl of food — the kind of thing Japanese home cooks throw together when they want something n...
Georgian
Fast With Oil
სოკოს სუპი — Georgian Mushroom Soup
Georgian mushroom soup stands apart from its Russian cousin with a bold hit of adjika spice paste, fresh herbs piled ...
Other
Fast With Fish
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...
Other
Fast With Oil
Jamaican Rice and Peas
Jamaican rice and peas is one of the Caribbean's greatest contributions to the world's table — long-grain rice cooked...
Georgian
Fast Without Oil
Лобио с грецкими орехами (Lobio Salad with Walnuts)
If hot lobio is winter comfort, this cold version is the dish you want on a warm spring fasting day. Cooked kidney be...
Romanian
Fast With Oil
Fasole Bătută (Mashed Bean Spread)
The great staple of Romanian fasting. Fasole bătută is what every Romanian grandmother makes when the fast begins — w...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Other
Fast With Oil
Rajma — Punjabi Red Kidney Bean Curry
Rajma is the curry that North Indian children grow up on — kidney beans simmered until they are creamy, in an onion-t...
Other
Fast With Oil
Black Bean Tacos with Avocado and Lime
Black bean tacos are the proof that fasting food does not need to be Eastern European or Mediterranean to work. These...
Greek
Fast With Oil
Φάβα Σαντορίνης — Santorini Yellow Split Pea Purée with Capers and Onion
Fava is the warm, silky purée of yellow split peas that anchors a Greek meze table — golden, dense, and far more fill...
Russian
Fast With Oil
Солянка Постная — Fasting Solyanka
Solyanka is the soup that proves fasting food can be bold, complex, and deeply savory all at once. This version build...
Greek
Fast With Fish
Greek-Style Baked Whole Fish with Lemon and Oregano
This is the dish that appears on every Greek table on the Annunciation and Palm Sunday — a whole fish, scored and rub...
Russian
Fast With Oil
Гречневая Каша с Грибами — Buckwheat with Mushrooms
Buckwheat is practically a national staple in Russia and one of the best fasting grains — nutty, filling, and natural...
Russian
Fast With Fish
Baked Trout with Dill and Lemon
This is the Russian way with trout — straightforward and perfect. A whole trout (or fillets, if you prefer), stuffed ...
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...
Other
Fast With Fish
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 ...
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...
Russian
Fast With Oil
Фаршированные Перцы — Stuffed Peppers with Buckwheat and Mushrooms
Bell peppers stuffed with nutty buckwheat and earthy mushrooms, braised in tomato sauce until everything melds togeth...
Other
Fast Without Oil
Doenjang Jjigae — Korean Soybean Paste and Tofu Stew
Doenjang jjigae is the everyday stew of the Korean table — a bubbling earthenware pot of fermented soybean paste brot...
Other
Fast Without Oil
No-Oil Toor Dal and Spinach with Dry-Toasted Tarka
Toor dal — split pigeon peas — cooks into a thick, golden purée with a gentle earthy sweetness, and a fistful of spin...
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