Maybe not so original!!!!

Mainly, in Venezuela the people have a particular way to cook. Certainly, the kind of food the Venezuelan people cook are the same that in other places in Central America and the Caribbean; but with the touch of the Spanish heritage. Usually, we eat rice, beans, meat, vegetables, some fruits; nicely combined to avoid the monotonousness.

The most common dishes in Venezuela are compound by carbohydrate; for example, rice with beans and chicken or spaghettis with ground beef. Also, in breakfasts and dinners is frequent eating bread (like baguette) and arepa, which is a kind of bread made from cornmeal, but the texture is different to Mexican cornmeal. Sadly, I have a strong tendency to be overweighted and some relatives had have problem with diabetes, so i have to keep distance with the carbohydrate.

There was a time during my years in college that I weighed like 300 pounds; and even I am like 40 pounds over my ideal weight, I try to eat as balanced as I can. Generally the vegetables and meat are the base of my diet, so I always try to combine in order to have a funny diet. Fortunately, 3 years ago I started to change my eating habits and lost like 60 pound; therefore, right now I am trying to improve my habits again and feel better.

One of the secrets in diet is that you have to have option because eating always the same makes the people lose the interest in the healthy food. Once trying to amply my range of vegetables, I decided to attempt with a recipe with spinach. However, the spinach is one of those vegetables which lose the texture easily, and the most of the food with spinach that I had tasted were a little sticky.

Even though, I could not let this beat me; so I was determined to create my own recipe. Truly, I do not think the recipe is pretty original; absolutely, it is a version of the lasagna. But, it has my special touch and is really tasty, so I decided present this recipe in my blog.

Ingredient: 1 pound of spinach, mozzarella cheese in slide (approximately 12 slides), 1 pound of ground beef, parmesan cheese, one mid-size onion, pasta sauce, cummins, oregano, basil and pepper.

Directions: Firstly, we have to prepare the sauce. Personally, I used to saute the onion (previously chopped) and the ground beef, and add pepper, cummins and salt. Let there for 10 minutes and add the sauce. Reduce the heat and cook for 20 minute approximately. Finally add the oregano and the basil and turn off. Secondly, take a mold previously greased and floured, and place a lay of mozzarella cheese. Over the cheese lay spread the spinach leaves and cover the spinach lay with the ground beef sauce. Put a little of parmesan cheese and alternate spinach lay with mozzarella cheese lay and sauce lay. Finally, cover the mold with aluminum foil and put in the oven between 15 and 20 minutes. You can serve alone or with caesar salad.

Well, I hope you like the recipe.