You Can't Talk Food Without a Recipe #1

Christmas dinner was dedicated to healthy foods that would help in the fight against cancer in one of three ways: 1) build up and/or replace nutrients that would be lost during treatment 2) prevent more cancer from forming 3) starve or kill existing cancers
There will be more information on what kinds of nutrients are supposed to do those things, but for now I want to get a great recipe out to you that made Christmas dinner non-traditional, but wonderful. First I have to say that I tried lots of recipes that I have never tried before, which is not something you are supposed to do when you're entertaining because it can be a recipe for disaster. All the food came out great, and for that I thank God. I think He's on our side in this fight.
This recipe is for baked salmon. I was going to follow a recipe, but in the piles of ingredients all over the kitchen, I lost one of the important ones and ended up winging it. It was the best salmon I've ever tasted, and Dad agreed.

Baked Salmon

4 pieces of Salmon (wild is better nutritionally, but farm raised will work)
4 cloves of garlic

2 tbs grated fresh ginger
4 tbs olive oil
sea salt
cracked pepper
2 to 3 cups or more of julienned celery, carrots and scallions
low sodium soy sauce

Place salmon skin side down in a baking dish with 2 inch sides. Peal garlic cloves, slice off stem end, crush with flat of knife and chop fine. Mix with olive oil, ginger, sea salt and cracked pepper. Spread over the salmon. Pile julienned vegetables on the salmon. Sprinkle soy sauce liberally over all. Cover dish tightly with foil. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes depending on thickness of salmon pieces, until the salmon flakes when probed with a fork.

Steamed asparagus and baked potato with skin would make a nutritious accompaniment, or boiled red new potatoes if you want a fancier presentation. Just be sure to eat the skin of the potato. We had poached pears with this for desert. Simple, but elegant.