[JessicaV]

I read that as well as garlic, other Allium plants like leeks and onions have anticancer properties. And that ginger can help too.

So I have just started to make the yummiest mild veg curry that incorporates a lot of these foods:
Dice up your preferred combination of winter squash, sweet potato, eggplant, carrots, green beans, broccoli, and cauliflower, add cooked chickpeas, and cook together in a wok with tight-fitting lid till just tender.
Meanwhile, with a stick blender in a tall thin jar blend till smooth 3 chopped garlic cloves, half a thumb of ginger, a handful of coriander leaves and 1-2 cups of diced tomatoes. (If you like some heat, also add and blend between half and three chillis that you know will create the desired heat) Put this aside.
Then grind together 2tsp cumin seeds, 2tsp coriander seeds, 1tsp cardamon seeds. Heat up a frying pan, add 1tsp black mustard seeds and dry-cook till they start to pop. Add the ground spices. Add 2+tsp ground tumeric, 5 whole cloves, 2inches of cassia or cinnamon quill. Turn down the heat. Cook together till aromatic. Put into a dish and put aside.
Finely chop a large onion. Heat pan. Cook slowly till soft. Add the spices and stir through. Add the tomato mix and stir through, heat slowly till cooked. Add fresh low-fat yoghurt to taste. Add water if it gets too thick. Add 2 kafir lime leaves. Stir together with the cooked vegetables and simmer together for 10-15 min till flavour is through it all. Remove cinnamon/cassia bark, and also lime leaves.
Serve with wholemeal bread or flatbread or juinoa, or brown rice, or eat on its own. Hot, or cold as a salad.
You can also add raw fish to the sauce before or instead of the vegetables, and simmer till cooked.
You can add diced low-fat paneer cheese and simmer through for the last 10 min of cooking.
You can add meat, first marinating diced meat raw in the tomato mix for several hours before starting to cook the curry. Again, it is your choice whether and what vegs you include with the meat.
You can blend a cup of cooked squeezed spinach into the tomato blend.
You can add any other spices or vegetables or herbs that appeal, or take out any you don't like. You can add 100-300ml coconut cream.
But for best anti-cancer content, keep the tumeric, ginger, garlic, tomato, onion, coriander and yoghurt and pref the broccoli too.
I also make coldpressed juice with carrots, an orange, an apple and fresh/frozen berries.
And salad with lots of freshly picked spinachy green, kale, plus lightly browned chopped nuts, avocado, tomatoes, olives, low-fat fetta balls rolled in dakah, etc. dressed with garlic, olive oil, flaxseed oil, and a fresh lemon or lime squeezed over it.