Fasting Recipes in the Orthodox Church

[vanshan]

If I don't have an Oriental market in the area, is the hoisin sauce at the supermarket okay? I've never tried it. I love the Siracha sauce . . . in college it was a staple condiment for my ramen noodles.

 

[Prawnik]

If I don't have an Oriental market in the area, is the hoisin sauce at the supermarket okay? I've never tried it. I love the Siracha sauce . . . in college it was a staple condiment for my ramen noodles.

I use whatever el cheapo hoisin I can get my hands on. As far as I can tell, they all work.

 

[xenia]

I just made and ate some pretty delicious soup!

Do this, more or less:

In a large pot empty a can of green enchilada sauce
Add a goodly amount of water to make it broth-like
Add 4 or 5 big potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes
Also throw in a few stalks of sliced celery
Add a few handfuls of raw lentils
Also a cut-up onion

Cook until the lentils and potatoes are done. Add salt to taste.

I had some unflavored Mexican TVP in on hand ("Carne de soya") which I also threw in.

This soup was delicious!

Love, Xenia

 

[xenia]

Lent is hard for me because I am the only Orthodox Christian in my family. I think a lot of us have this problem. When I get home from a long day at work and fix dinner, it's hard to fix two separate meals. Usually, I fix the family something ordinary, like chicken and rice or tacos or spaghetti and just eat toast myself, being too unmotivated to fix anything good for myself. And in the past I have yielded to temptation and broken the fast and chowed down on the non-Lenten foods my family was enjoying.

Well, I wanna do better! I spent the morning cooking and baking enough Lenten food to last me all week. I have a lot of vegan cookbooks, so I made corn muffins, banana-oat waffles, coffee cake and that soup I mentioned earlier. Later on I'm going to make a few more things. I think, with these things in the freezer, I might do a better job of keeping Lent this year.

-Xenia

 

[Theophorus]

I have found that about 2-3 pots of coffee a day has really helped, but I do not think this is a long term solution.

 

[Michael G]

My favorite fasting food:

Rice a Roni Spanish Rice mix, to which I add:

1/2 Jar of Salsa
1 Green Pepper
A whole bunch of Mushrooms

and on non-fast days I add Chicken and Mozzarella.

 

[Grand_Duchess-Elizaveta]

Hey, all. I wanted to bake some cookies to share with catechism group tomorrow, but it is a Friday (fasting day), so I'm looking for eggless cookie recipes. I'm not having much luck. The ones labeled "Vegan" have weird things in them like sea salt, carob chips, vegan sugar, and vegan margerine. I can't afford to go out and buy weird things like that. Does anyone have a recipe they can share? I'm especially interested in a chocolate chip cookie recipe.

And....someone told me that applesauce can replace eggs in cookie recipes. Is this true? Does anyone know how much to use to replace each egg?

Thanks!

 

[Rilian]

GDE, I think my wife has one or more. She also has a recipe for chocolate cake that has no eggs or dairy.

 

[Carrye]

Can you have bananas? You can replace 1 egg with 1 banana. Here's a website with some other substitutions (including the applesauce one): http://vegweb.com/recipes/subs/egg-sub1.shtml

 

[vanshan]

My wife's godmother, Rachel, told us that our matushka says you can make any cookie recipe lenten by replacing the eggs with one tablespoon of vinegar per egg. It sounds icky, but really it works great. I've had a normal chocolate chip recipe using this tip and they were great--you really couldn't tell any difference.

Basil

 

[xenia]

This is the place to post Lenten recipes!

(Thanks to countrymouse33ad for the idea.)

 

[Orthosdoxa]

While not recipes, here are some things we've been eating:

Some kinds of Rice-a-Roni

Chips and salsa

Baked potatoes

Big soft pretzels (YUM!!!)

Apples, bananas, and grapes - YUM!!

 

[countrymouse33ad]

Okay, took this one to church tonight for potluck, and got a compliment. Easy, too, since you can actually buy cans of Santa Fe Corn at Wally World!


Santa Fe Corn Soup

4 cans Santa Fe Corn
6 cups vegetable broth (I use homemade leek soup. Just stew some leeks for a couple hours.)
Fresh pepper to taste
1 or 2 teaspoons taco seasoning

Cook on stovetop on medium for an hour, or put it in a crockpot for the day or overnight. Add salt to taste.

 

[Matrona]

Not a recipe, but.... Zatarain's Jambalaya Mix, made with shrimp or another kind of shellfish, makes an easy and tasty Lenten meal.

On dairy days, their Jambalaya With Cheese Mix can be made with shrimp or no meat at all.

(I love Zat's.)

 

[ManM]

I'll second the love for Zat's. Zatarain's Red Beans and Rice is quite yummy!

Here is a good one:

1 can of black beans
1 box of your favorite rice-a-roni
1 package of tortillas
Any other topings you want.

Cook beans and rice, warm tortillas, roll burritos. Simple and very good.

 

[Khaleas]

http://www.recipesource.com/


A lot of the recipes are easily tweakable to be lenten...

Lots of ethnic recipes that from what I've seen with the Russian and Finnish ones pretty much correct...

I found the site when I was trying to find a recipes similiar to Matushka's poppy seed roll... man it was soooo good!

 

[Vasya Davidovich]

I like applesauce on Cheerios.

 

[xenia]

This morning's breakfast: Almond butter on a warm flour tortilla wrapped around a banana. Needs a lot of coffee to wash down, but not entirely unpleasant.

 

[xenia]

And then I went out to breakfast with one of my students, and the only Lenten items on the Mexican breakfast menu were Horchata and chips and salsa. Not a bad combination for the second breakfast of the day.

 

[Vasya Davidovich]

This is a pre-Orthodox recipe I cooked up. And one of my all-time favourites. I called it Cool Basil Green because it wasn't Hot Curry Red, which I also invented at the same time.

Ingredients:
Half cauldron of water
Lots of green lentils
Several onions
Handful of basil
Couple cloves of garlic (optional)
Lots of salt

Boil lentils in water. Add onions (later if you like them crunchier). Add basil, crushed garlic (it helps if you crush them before adding to the mix), and salt.

Boil until everything is mushy (save for the onions if you like them crunchier). Add water judiciously to prevent burning or sticking. Add more salt. Add more basil.

Serve! and enjoy.