Ingredients:

1 lb soyrizo (or 3 casings)

1 green pepper

1 jalapeno pepper

1 cup mozzarella cheese (grated)

1 cup cheddar cheese (grated)

8 large flour tortillas

1 large can green enchilada sauce

Directions:

Dice the peppers and fry in a skillet for a couple minutes with soyrizo (until warm). Put the tortillas in a baking pan and pour a little mozzarella in each. Next, put soyrizo/pepper mix and wrap into a tight burrito shape. Put each enchilada right next to each other in pan and wrapped up. Next, pour generous amounts of grated cheddar cheese on top and drench in green enchilada sauce and bake for 15 minutes on 350 degrees.

Today I made my fourth vegan dessert creation from babycakes, pumpkin muffins! They turned out really moist, tasty and healthy! The vegan chocolate chip cookies and double chocolate chip cookies went over really well at work too. I’m happy to spread the vegan, gluten-free, sugar free lovlieness to the world!

After my growing knowledge of GMO’s (genetically modified organisms) it is more apparent that we all need to eat less meat and more organic everything. The horrors that Monsanto, the maker of agent orange, does to our food is outrageous and eating this organic, vegan dessert is that more satisfying knowing that I am not supporting their hostile endeavors!

See below for some action shots of my earth friendly/animal friendly cookies and pumpkin muffin making:

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I got a new recipe book called Babycakes and it is vegan, gluten-free and mostly sugar-free. The whole thing is animal friendly, no preservatives and ALL desserts! I got the book at Borders and two days later I get go on my cupcake fiasco because it is extremly hard to find anything vegan/non-gluten or perservative-free these days.

It gave me the idea of my future entrepreneurship opportunity in the sustainable living, vegan, green industry that I would love way too much. It would include free workshops to bring in the community and teach people how to live sustainably too.

This book reminded me that I could completely live my dream, eat desserts all day and work as my own boss of the cupcake world as I have a family and travel the world on my vega-cake diet and budget. All dreams aside I will do my little experiment to turn everyone to the dark side of vegan-healthy desserts tomorrow at work!

cupcake of love

The geek squad headed over to DEFCON (hacker convention) in Las Vegas last weekend. World class hackers showed their work off by talking about privacy laws, compromises of major internet sites and how to protect yourself when traveling (dealing with red-light capture technologies, RFID’s, and the No-Fly List). Needless to say, I was amazed and paranoid after a couple of the talks, but definitely better off knowing that government sites are probably sending out my social security number along with  a video of me driving and my complete history of calls, travel and even things I didn’t know about myself! Also a note the ratio of men to women there was most likely 6500 : 10 so I had all the hot, bald geeky action I could ever want! jk

I really loved the talks by the two guys who had TV shows. The guy from Myth Busters – Adam Savage and Kingpin who had a show called Prototype This talked about their experiences in the TV industry. Kingpin and Zoz talked about their genius projects on their show with a small budget and about 2 weeks to come up with electrical/mechanical/software engineering inventions that could change the world every month. My favorite talk was from the girl who spoke about The Death of Anonymous Travel though. That was the talk that opened up my eyes to the lack of privacy we live in today and the restricts and abuses of information the government and third parties could hold against you (No Fly List is over a million and has people flagged that have moved in the last year? Or people with bad credit histories? What about the terrorists instead of grandmas and children?).

Anyway, we stayed in Mandalay Bay with 6 pools, beautiful architecture, and the Jonas Brothers! We sweated to the 110 degree heat, and didn’t gamble or drink because we were so exhausted. The newsworthy event of the whole conference had to be the only thing that we were completely unaware of and managed to get a picture with (below). Basically some hackers made a fake ATM machine, put a card reader to skim people’s credit cards (steal their information) and put it right outside of the security office because that was the only place without cameras! Amazingly their gag was found by a security officer shining his light into the “camera” hole that usually films people as they make their transaction and instead it was a computer!

Us and the ATM machine at DEFcon

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Lucas and I took a trip up to Pyramid Lake last Saturday with Brooke and Martin. We rode around on their boat watching the mountains and trees go by as we skimmed on the huge lake. We could barely tell we right outside LA except for the glooming 5 freeway in the distance. There weren’t that many people on the lake for how beautiful it was out there that day.

There were some classy, tattooed, white guys blaring gangsta’ rap that you could hear from a mile away so we blared ABBA to drown out the profanely-lame music. We ate, talked and swam the day away and traveled to small coves, even seeing the pyramid landmark.

As the cool water refreshed us on the warm day, the sun beat down on our backs and crisped our flesh until it grew red and burnt. We watched the flaming-red dragonflies as they sped past the water and complemented the green algae and seaweeds that swayed in the slow current. A big wake would throw the boat around once in a while as a few jetskis and boat-pulled donuts sped past us.

We tiredly said goodbye and drove the long distance home to watch a movie on the projector, Adventureland, and it was quite surprisingly good and realistic. It gave me reminisces of the old Disneyland days and oh, how I’m so glad I’m out of there. Next stop, Vegas. and my week off from school!

Pyramid Lake (click on picture for rest of Pyramid Lake photos..)

Lucas and his boat ho's

We’ve been pretty busy this summer. I’ve (Rachel) been in school constantly and working and Lucas is hard at work too. Our plan is to create this blog as more of a travel blog with more updates on our life that will link to our lovely pictures which are at over 6,000 right now.

It’s blazing hot, as Lucas would say, and we are still in our little apartment down the street from work in Anaheim. We are looking into renting the apartments close to work. They are building some beautiful apartments right now and they would be steps away from the office, the train station and Kaizer so it should be a go if the price is low enough.

Next week we are planning a small road trip with the geek squad to Las Vegas. We are going for Defcon (the hacker convention) but will be staying at Mandalay Bay (woop woop) and shopping/partying it up geeky style all weekend. Lucas, Dustin, Johnny, Jason, Ira, Patrick and I will be going together.

Also, last week was Brooke’s (my cousin) wedding to her new Pollock hubby, Martin. We had a blast at their low key beach wedding in Laguna. We met the extended family like Martin’s dad, brother, cousin and uncle. Cupcakes and champagne galore so I was happy.

Us in Laguna (Click on picture for full gallery...)

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Rachel’s Shrimpy New Dehlite
•    2 TB olive oil
•    ½ pound fresh shrimp
•    ½ can coconut milk
•    2 sticks of green onion (cut into small pieces)
•    ½ red pepper cut into 1/2” pieces
•    ½ cup sliced white onion
•    1 TB curry powder
•    ½ TB turmeric powder
•    1 TB garlic powder
•    4 dashes chili powder
•    4 dashes cumin powder
•    4 dashes seasoning salt
•    4 dashes ginger powder

Peel off the legs of the shrimp and set in pile. Put oil and onion in a large electric wok and put on medium heat. When the onions are grilled slightly add the coconut milk, green onions and curry powder. Mix around the ingredients for a couple seconds and then add the shrimp. Keep mixing for a couple seconds so that the shrimp are covered in the sauce. Add all of the other spices and red pepper. Keep mixing and flip the shrimp until they are pink.

Eat with dahl and naan bread.

We are coming up on our one year anniversary. This has been the best year of our lives and we are just getting started. We traveled to San Francisco, Europe and New York. We changed the company together with the green team and Lucas’ motivation for my job. We had great holidays, went to film festivals in Europe and California, rode miles on our bikes, made great food, had great conversations, met great people and did it all together. We met each other’s families this year and we all get along great. I met his mom, sister and dad. He met almost my whole extended family. We learned a lot about each other and ourselves, and I can’t wait to see our next year together for the Roboto family!