An essential part of my love and devotion to all things edible is more on a visual level than any other sensory experience.  Fresh produce is gorgeous.  Cooked dishes and baked goods are lovely.  I am FAR more likely to attempt a tricky recipe if there's a photo accompanying it just on the fact that I like the visual throwdown ...

Recipe - Roasted Sweet Potato Salad With Black Beans and Chili Dressing - NYTimes.com tags: tocook, happyeats, recipe, sweet potatoes, jalapeno, potato salad, black beans The Pioneer Woman Cooks: hot crash potatoes We've been making our own variations of these, calling them hot smashed potatoes. Funny that others have a similar name - or maybe not and I'm just that easily ...

Cupcake Rehab - Cinnamon vanilla cupcakes with Mexican hot chocolate buttercream. tags: cupcakes, tocook, happyeats, recipes, buttercream, hot chocolate The Voracious Vegan: Raw Pumpkin Pie Balls and Raw Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls! tags: vegan, happyeats, raw, peanut butter, cashews, walnuts, dates, recipes, tocook Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Sweet tooth meets meringue-d digit.  The Meringue ring is a sight to be seen, a perfect stocking stuffer for a baking fanatic or plain 'ole meringue fiend.

I'm an avid coffee drinker all year round, so warm drinks are a staple in my 'drag yourself out of bed' or 'keep that morning energy up for just one more conference call' routines. But cool weather and Christmas spirit open up a new world of steamy beverage possibilities.  And yes, they are alcoholic (because booze goes great with Christmas cheer ...

sweet beet and green bean | lean, mean, vegan cuisine tags: tocook, happyeats, vegan, recipes, food blog, cooking Raw kale chip recipes - yum!! tags: happyeats, raw, kale, cooking, recipes, tocook Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Who says the Internet can't save the world?  Or at least your pizza crusts... Veganbaking.net - Your Vegan Baking Community tags: tocook, recipe, happyeats, vegan, baking, vegan baking Mussels with Fennel, Lemon, and Belgian Ale Recipe by - CHOW tags: tocook, recipe, mussels, fennel, Belgium, ale, happyeats Want more happykatie links - check out  Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Random things we have recently learned for our kitchen thanks to the Internet: When should we add sprinkles on cookies - before or after baking? Cookies are perfect candidates for pre-bake sprinkling.  Make sure those sprinkles stay!  Add them to your rolled out or spooned out dough to make it a little easier for you.  (eHow) How do you make vegan condensed milk? There ...

Thanksgiving must be terrifying for turkeys. Genocide on a plate much? Sure looking at a turkey kind of freaks me out, but that's why I'm not eating one this year (and also why I have a polymer clay robot turkey to head up this post instead of this guy, ahem). Keep your conscience easy and adopt a turkey instead - ...

I've been having a great time with cooking for the Fall - it's been one of my absolute favorite things actually. Playing with the textures and flavors of the season. Squash, pumpkin, warm, gooey, delicious... mmmmm... Anyway... this week's culinary adventure has started out super well for the happyfamily. The fridge is packed to the gills ...