How to Rethink Foods

Marshall O’Brien, a nutritional wellness chef, shares ways you can get nourishing ingredients into your diet. Listed below are more details.

How can we rethink foods?

• Use more herbs/spices to make flavors you like
• Switch cooking techniques to improve flavor
• Make swaps that help improve nutrition
• Use better ingredients

Roasted Curried Sweet Potatoes

• Mix together sweet potatoes and onions, olive oil and spices
• Spread evenly on sheet pan and bake until golden brown, about 30-45 minutes

Salmon with Lentils

• Cook lentils with onions and salt and cook for 2 minutes to soften
• Add cumin and half garlic
• Stir to coat the lentils with spices
• Add water and cover
• Cook vegetables on a sheet pan drizzled with oil and spices
• Move veggies around to allow space for salmon
• Sprinkle with spices and salt
• Bake on top rack until firm to the touch, about 10 minutes

Colorful Cauliflower Fried Rice

• Start by grating the cauliflower
• Should look almost like rice
• Heat oil and add eggs and scramble
• Add oil, then white scallions, garlic, ginger and cook stirring often until softened
• Add oil, cauliflower, soy sauce, red pepper flakes and salt
• Add peas and carrots and continue cooking until the cauliflower is tender, crisp and the veggies are warm through
• Stir in rice vinegar, sesame oil, dark green scallions, nuts and eggs and serve immediately