Page 6 July 2, 2015 EL SEGUNDO HERALD Looking Up A Kitchen Blog from front page Her heritage is based in Mexican cuisine, but Angela finds that cooking anything Mexican or Italian are the best in which to cook; each cuisine allows for much experimentation, especially because she believes following a strict recipe is not always necessary. She admits her joy in cooking is just being in the kitchen with ingredients spread around the counter before being chopped or mixed in, and then, experiencing the smells as the dish begins to take shape, adding a little of this spice or herb, trying to see what makes the flavors bolder or stronger. “Finding the complex flavor in the simplest of foods, discovering what new flavor can bring out another with an extra pinch of this or that, I just love ‘playing’ with my food,” she chuckled. “My Mom and grandmother encouraged me as I was growing up and so it seemed a natural thing for me to make our meals as I got older. Of course, I began with non-complicated dishes, but then I started to see that cooking is always a science experiment. The chemical reaction between ingredients is interesting. “In baking it is essential that you use the precise measurements of dry ingredients to wet ingredients, but in all other cooking, it is a matter of what tastes good and what works,” she mused. It was a dream that Angela began to have at the age of eight years to open a restaurant someday. Finances are not the only element that put that dream away. “My Mom reminded me that a restaurant is a 24 hours a day, seven days a week responsibility, regardless of how many hours the place would be open. So, I changed my mind about that,” Angela said, laughing heartily. Not running a restaurant in her adulthood is replaced by her blog. Angela’s friends during high school in El Segundo and while at Long Beach State had continual queries of what kitchen tool to use for this and what spice/herb to use in that recipe, and a myriad of other questions, to which she knew the answers 99 percent of the time. For a few years friends made suggestions to write it all down. Angela was always the go-to among her friends about all things related to food, cooking, and baking. Baking is actually Angela’s first love and her infamous chocolate chip cookies are craved by those close to her. “I played with that recipe for quite a few years and by trial and error I have perfected what many have described as the perfect chocolate chip cookie,” she said, with some amount of pride. “Baking that recipe during study groups, parties, or sports events at my school apartment became a tradition. Sometimes I couldn’t bake those cookies fast enough. I have no intention of sharing that recipe with anyone, ever,” she laughingly said. Although not confident in her writing skills, this former athlete, originally recruited for her shot put and discus throwing skills, began to do research on blogging. “I had hoped to go into sports-related physical therapy, particularly after the ankle injury from basketball sidelined me and I looked for another sport. I chose track and field but the strict NCAA regulations did not give me much leeway to continue in that. I decided to go a different path for a career. I majored in Behavioral Sciences with a Communications minor. I was able to channel my love of science, chemistry, cooking, and communication when I began The Full Tummy.com and the blog was ‘live’ on March 19. I work in web testing for a sports company headquarters in El Segundo, so I have knowledge of the Internet. “Putting all that background together, I am able to incorporate what I am pasionate about (cooking) with my Internet skills (blogging) and please my friends, and now my readers, with tips, recommendations for kitchen tools, apps for cooking, other bloggers and websites about cooking and food, food pairings, recipes, and my general thoughts about what I love to do—cook!” Angela’s passionate perspective about food and cooking is rather simple. It is super easy to cook. Try a recipe and add something one time. Doesn’t work? Take that away and add something new the next time you cook that food. Get comfortable in the kitchen. Buy the essential tools only. How do you know what those are? Read The Full Tummy.com on Sundays and Thursdays. The blog is free and at this time Angela has no plans to monetize it. As long as one has the right tools and a few basic ingredients, one can experiment with just about any food. Puzzled about cooking terminology? Looking for a new recipe? Chances are The Full Tummy.com can help in any cooking department. Keep in mind, though. One thing not on The Full Tummy.com is Angela’s recipe for chocolate chip cookies. • Roadmap to the Stars Philip Lubin stands next to the laser his lab uses to conduct experiments. Photo by Sonia Fernandez. Based on a press release from UC Santa Barbara, provided by Bob Eklund A laser-powered wafer-thin spacecraft capable of reaching Alpha Centauri in 20 years may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but it’s not. And while such a launch isn’t imminent, the possibility of one in the future does exist, according to UC Santa Barbara physics professor Philip Lubin. To further explore that possibility, Lubin and his team in UCSB’s Experimental Cosmology Group will study photo-driven propulsion—the use of lasers as a means to power a spacecraft. The group has been awarded one of 15 proof-ofconcept grants from NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts. The NASA program aims to turn what sounds like science fiction into science fact through the development of pioneering technologies. “One of humanity’s grand challenges is to explore other solar systems by sending probes— and eventually life,” said Lubin. “We propose a system that will allow us to take the first step toward interstellar exploration using directedenergy propulsion combined with miniature probes. Along with recent work on wafer-scale photonics, we can now envision combining these technologies to enable a realistic approach to sending probes far outside our solar system.” The UCSB group’s ultimate goal is to send small probes to supplement the current longrange remote sensing done by orbital and ground-based telescopes. The funding will enable Lubin’s team to create a more complete roadmap for building a fully functional waferscale spacecraft complete with power, laser communications, and controllable photon thrusters. The project, Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar exploratioN (DEEP-IN), will also chart laser-driver elements that require technology development. The key to a functioning system lies in the ability to build both the photon driver and the ultra-low-mass probes. While capable of propelling any spacecraft mass, lower-mass probes go the fastest and are most suitable for interstellar missions. The DEEP-IN design keeps the main propulsion driver back in Earth’s orbit (or nearby) yet still capable of propelling highly integrated spacecraft to speeds vastly higher than anything scientists can currently achieve. The laser photon driver would use photon pressure in the form of streamed energy to power the spacecraft as it travels away from Earth. With no intrinsic speed limit, this technology allows for the relativistic speeds necessary for interstellar flight. “While not suitable for every spacecraft design, this approach opens up radically new possibilities,” Lubin said. “The project is a step toward the first interstellar mission, but more importantly we are studying and designing the relevant technological base. This will give us the ability to build a single photon driver capable of sending out literally millions of low-mass probes. “We’ve had to radically rethink our strategy in order not to give up our dreams of reaching the stars,” Lubin added. “DEEP-IN posits a technological path forward that, while not simple, is within our technological reach to begin.” • Burkley & Brandlin LLP A T T O R N E Y S A T L A W Living Trusts/Wills, Probate, Employment Law, Personal Injury Trust and Estates Litigation, Business Litigation, Civil Litiga tion 310-540-6000 Lifetime El Segundo Residents *AV Rated (Highest) Martindale - Hubbell / **Certified Specialist Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization If Crisis Strikes, You Risk: • Losing Control • Additional Stress on Your Family • The Loss of What You Spent a Lifetime Building Proper Planning Allows You: • Maintain Control of Your Assets for the Family’s Sake • Give Control to Those you Trust, When You’re not Able • To Afford Long Term Care Costs • Keep Your Family’s Business Private No Longer Off Limits to Americans! “Join me, Ana Maria Perez, for an evening sharing Cuba news, stories, and unique travel opportunities. 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