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I made some lasagna the other day and I promise on twitter that I would release the top secret recipe..lol..here goes! Enjoy!

1lb. lean ground meat
1 onion chopped
1 jar tomato sauce
1 small container of ricotta cheese
1 package slice mozzarella cheese
garlic powder
Adobo

Cook lasagna in boiling water until tender drain off most of water
In saucepan brown meat onion garlic and Adobo
Cook over low heat covered for about 5 minutes
Stir in sauce simmer for 15 minutes in a 13x9 baking dish
Layer the lasagna the sauce with the meat, ricotta cheese and mozzarella cheese about 5 overlapping strips
Top the remaining sauce and pasta with the remaining mozzarella cheese on top
Cover with foil bake at 350F for 30 minutes let stand 10 minutes before serving

ENJOY!!!!!

I-ELLA.com and LaLa Vazquez would like to cordially invite you to an action benefiting Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Monday, October 25 to Friday, November 5th, 2010 11am EST at I-ELLA.com. Enter code: LALA.

Check out the blog I wrote for my friends over at GlobalGrind.com!

So Ciara and I decided to do a quick video last night for the "It gets better" campaign. This cause was brought to our attention by Perez Hilton. A lot of gay, bisexual, transgendered teens experience a lot of hardships in high school. Whether its being bullied or just trying to fit in, it can be tough out there. We just wanted to encourage teens and all people with this message. IT GETS BETTER!

Melo and I went on George Lopez and had a blast! George Lopez is so much fun. He really made us feel comfortable! This was our first TV appearance together. Love him!

So it's almost here! My new show is premiering on VH1 this Sunday. I can't wait to share this with you. Its a 5 episode series leading up to the wedding. I had so much fun doing this show. You see the highs and lows that happen anytime a person is entering a new chapter in their life. Im happy to share this time with you. Here's the supertrailer which shows you what the series has in store. ENJOY!

Kim, Brittany, Kiyan and I hung by the pool the other day hanging out and having fun. Kiyan and Kim had a blast with his water gun and toys. Look at these cute pics Kim took!

Hey! I'm having an ebay auction. Go check it out! This is a great chance to bid on my stuff! Let me know what you think. Also what's great is a percentage of the proceeds go to a great cause!

Here's the trailer for the upcoming movie I'm in called GUN. 50 Cent and Val Kilmer went in on this! It's a MUST SEE (and im not just saying that because I'm in it...lol) Let me know what you think...

Wow I had the most AMAZING time in Vegas. I love my friends Kim and Kelly for putting together my entire bachelorette party. It was amazing. I had the BEST TME EVER!!

I came across this picture from the Carmelo Anthony's Foundation Brunch during All-Star weekend. In this picture, you see Mels two neices, Asya and Kiyonna, Mels mom, Mel, Kiyan, myself, my mom, my cousin Dice and Mels sister, Michelle. We had a really good time together and it was for a good cause. I thought I'd share!

Congrats to the entire New Orleans Saints team for their Superbowl Victory! I cannot think of a more deserving city and a more deserving team! The city of New Orleans has showed us all their strength during tough times. The city never lost hope and never gave up. Hard work, perseverance, it PAYS off. Congrats again! WOW. What a game! And another congrats to Reggie Bush! You did the DAMN thing! WHO DAT!!

A lot of people don't realize that I'm Latina, which is fine. One thing about being Latina is that there isn't one look that comes with the territory. I don't expect people to know my cultural background just by glancing at me. I do, however, expect that when I tell people my family is from Puerto Rico, that I will be believed and not accused of trying to be something that I'm not. It usually goes something like this: a person having a conversation with me discovers one way or another that I'm Puerto Rican and fluent in Spanish. That person then expresses their shock over these realizations for any number of reasons--common responses are, "You don't look Latina" and "I thought you were black!" I never said I wasn't black. And since when does being black and being Latina have to be mutually exclusive?

In my experience, people tend to have an uninformed and rather narrow view of what it means to be Puerto Rican. For me, not looking like some people's idea of a typical Latina has been challenging and often painful. I constantly find myself trying to justify who I am, and why should I? I'm proud of my heritage and my family. Both of my parents are from Puerto Rico. They raised two kids in Brooklyn and later in New Jersey, where we ate arroz con gandules and pasteles and listened to salsa music. I feel just as at home in Puerto Rico, where I still have tons of family, including aunts, uncles and cousins. Puerto Rico is in my blood. And that has nothing to do with the color of my skin.

"L'UNION FAIT LA FORCE"(STRENGTH THROUGH UNITY):  CELEBS, GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS IN ATLANTA, MIAMI & NY COORDINATE MASS EFFORT TO RELIEVE VICTIMS OF HAITI EARTHQUAKE

(ATLANTA) - January 14, 2010 - Several celebrities and grassroots organizations in Atlanta, Miami and New York have joined forces in a mass effort to provide aid to the victims of the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti.

Singer/songwriter Melky Jean's Carma Foundation, Atlanta-based The Haitian Alliance, New York's Haitian Memorial Foundation, the City of Miami and WEEN (Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network) are offering local communities ways in which they assist in the Haiti relief effort.

Celebrities and executives such as Melky Jean, Jamie Hector, Daphnee Duplaix, Sha Money, Tony Yayo, Mona Scott-Young, Raekwon, Claudine Joseph, Patty Laurent, and LaLa Vazquez have all signed on to help spread the word about this grassroots movement.

YOUR CALL TO ACTION:

NATIONAL DONATIONS TO HAITI

The Port-au-Prince offices of the Carma Foundation - whose mission is to improve the health of poor and vulnerable women and children in Haiti - were seriously affected by the Haiti earthquake. Make a monetary donation at carmafoundation.org  to help Carma send missionaries to Haiti to aid in the relief effort.

I did a photoshoot for the NOH8 campaign last week and this is the picture! I really like this picture because I feel it makes a strong statement like the NOH8 campaign does. I do believe that everyone has the right to choose who they marry and to JUST BE HAPPY! The NOH8 campaign promotes LOVE and EQUALITY for EVERYONE. I appreciate them wanting me involved. Learn more about it www.noh8campaign.com. STOP THE HATE!

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2010 is right around the corner! Time flies, I can't believe it. I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas from my family to yours. Also lets talk New Years. What are your New Years Resolutions? I would love to hear them. Please share. I included some pictures of Kiyan opening a couple of Christmas gifts. He was a very happy boy. Enjoy!

Here I am hanging out with Bill Phillips!!! WOW. For those of you who don't know Bill Phillips, he is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, Body-for-LIFE. He's helped over a million people improve their health and fitness.This guy is the TRUTH! He's been featured on every talk show, radio show, etc in America. His methods really work. He even offered to train me. That would be amazing. I just hope I can keep up. I know alot of your New Year's resolutions are going to be focused on getting fit, eating healthy, and losing weight. I suggest everyone go check out his website transformation.com. You WILL NOT be disappointed. Trust me! Let me know what you think? Here's to getting fit in the new year!! We should all support each other. LET'S GO!

You guys know how I love sharing things I find and things I like! I came across this website the other day: www.littersf.com. I think they have some of the hottest body jewelry, earrings, and what I like best of all is their shoe jewelry. Take a look. Let me know your thoughts. Do we like?

So I posted a picture of me in these boots awhile ago on twitter. Lots of you seem to LOVE them. I get emails and tweets about them everyday. I brought them from Bakers and they are pretty reasonable, $150.00. Just wanted to share with you where I got them so you can get them. ENJOY!

Over the Knee "Farah" boots

Hope you had an amazing weekend. If you follow me on twitter then you know how bad I wanted to see "Brothers" this weekend. I finally made it to the movie theatre. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone looking for something deep to watch. The ending...welll......I won't tell you..ENJOY!

Have you seen any good movies lately? Please tell..I'm such a movie buff!

I AM LA LA VAZQUEZ.  TODAY IS WORLD AIDS DAY.  HIV/AIDS IS THE #1 KILLER OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AND LATINA WOMEN IN MY AGE GROUP.  PLEASE GET TESTED, YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT

It amazes me that even in this day and age, a lot of us still have the mentality that HIV/AIDS can't happen to us. Yeah, we may know someone who had it, heard of someone who died from it, but never us. We will never get it.  It wasn't even a week ago that someone told me, HIV/AIDS only happens in the gay community. It was at that moment that I realized how uneducated some of us are when it comes to this deadly disease. We all need to take a moment and WAKE UP!

HIV/AIDS is spreading at an alarming rate and only we can stop it. We can educate ourselves, educate others, spread the word, stay protected, and most importantly GET TESTED.

HIV/AIDS doesn't care how you look. How pretty you are, how handsome you may be, it can happen to you.  People also tend to believe that if a person looks good and is well groomed then they can't have HIV/AIDS.

WRONG AGAIN.

So Melo and I recently took Kiyan to the zoo. Mel decided he wanted an up close and personal interaction with the lions and tigers.  I was TOTALLY against it. Check out these pictures! Please tell me if this is TOOOO close for you?? Was i being paranoid? And yes Kiyan had his Halloween costume on again! LOL

Saturday night while I was in Vegas I went to Justin Timberlake's concert. Wow he is an incredible performer! So many people came through and performed...Snoop, Alicia Keys, TLC, Taylor Swift, Timbaland, and of course Ciara. The show was absolutely amazing. Check out Ciara's performance!

Please come out and support finding a cure for breast cancer. This is a great cause and DJ Eque is a friend of mine. Shout out to The Honey Collective for putting this together.

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Since Kiyan wanted to put his costume on, I decided to take him to the pumpkin patch over the weekend! We had a blast. So many pumpkins to choose from and so much fun stuff to do. As you can see Kiyan is Captain America. I love the muscles in his shirt! LOL. Later that evening we carved our pumpkin and put a candle inside. Fun times!

"View all pics" to see a couple more, including Kiyan's carved pumpkin!

So my dad, Sam, came to Los Angeles this weekend to visit myself, Kiyan, and Mel.  We had such a good time, hanging out, eating junk food (I knowwww!), and watching football games.  My dad is a such a fun person to be around.  He spends all day cracking jokes, and just enjoying life.  He also gives me the best advice. I really believe I get my outgoing and spontaneous personality from him.  He used to be on the radio too when he was younger.  I don't get to see him as often as I would like though. He's an international flight attendant and is always traveling the world, but when we do catch up we always make the best of it. So big shouts to my DAD, I love you! I had a blast with you this weekend!

P.S. Dad wants all the ladies to know he's single! LOL

Michael Jordan held a basketball camp in Santa Barbara so Kiyan and Mel went to visit.  I was working on Season 2 of Ray J, so I missed out on the trip.. (sad face) Everyone had a blast and there were tons of kids there. The funniest thing about all these pictures is no one ever told MJ to look up at the camera. LOL so here's Kiyan and MJ, even though you can't really see his face! FUN TIMES!

Click "view all pics" to see a bonus pic of Kiyan and MJ!

Just wanted to take a moment to send my thoughts, love, and prayers to all the families of 9/11. You will always be remembered. Your courage and bravery shines through. May God continue to be with you all during this time.

First day of school! Wow it was so exciting! I think more for me than him. LOL. Kiyan's only two but I thought it was a perfect time to get him in a school setting to socialize, learn to share, communicate better, and things like that. I stayed with him the whole time since it was his first day. Believe me he was not paying me any attention! He got so comfortable he took his clothes off outside! Too funny. I know alot of you parents out there can relate to this moment. and NO I didnt cry! LOL..Mel keeps saying this isn't REAL school since he's so young but it felt super real to me! 

Most of us as kids had dreams of what we wanted to be when "we grow up." Mine was a veterinarian. It is all I ever thought about. It was my passion. Animals and the ocean always fascinated me. Then life happens, takes its turns and things don't always go as we planned as kids. Nevertheless, there has always been a special place in my heart for animals which leads me to my blog today.

I wanted to bring attention to a dirty little secret in Japan that was recently exposed in a documentary called "The Cove." In a fishing village called Taiji, thousands of dolphins are driven into a cove each year. The dolphins are slaughtered, their throats are slashed, and they are speared to death. Some of the dolphins are even sold to use in dolphin shows and dolphin swim programs.

I had never in my life seen such a barbaric way of humans killing animals. And what makes this all even worse is the Japanese government recently introduced dolphin/whale meat to childrens schools, even though the meat is high in mercury and is extremely toxic. The Japanese government did not even warn the Japanese people of the danger of eating this meat. The people of Japan deserve to know whats going on as it affects their families and children. The Japanese government also said it views dolphins as pests whose numbers need to be controlled. Unbelievable.

Read the rest of this blog on GlobalGrind.com to find out the 5 things you can do now and to watch the trailer for "The Cove"...

So I haven't read a really good, fun, interesting book in awhile. Any suggestions?

I think I'm going to start reading Steve Harvey's book, Act Like A Lady, Think Like a Man. I've heard some great things about the book. Has anyone read it? Any secrets or tips I should know? LOL..I love Steve Harvey, we actually used to work on the same radio station in Los Angeles, KKBT-fm. He's such a fun person but also the type who is willing to sit you down and give you sound advice. So here goes to some good reading!

If you've read it please share your thoughts!