New cooking recipe ideas?

[NBOX21]

For all you delightful cooks and chefs out there, if you were to pick a new cooking recipe, what would you choose to add, and what ingredients would be used to cook it? Even if it already exists in a mod, feel free to suggest it as an idea to add to the vanilla game.

Hope this discussion doesn't make anybody feel hungry just thinking about it.

[Snowy Sprout]

Definitely want something that uses the new found seeds: carrot, summer squash, and broccoli. Each are magnificent food items, though they don't really sell for all that much. I'd like to see it as Grilled Vegetables, and the food value should be 200 energy. I'd love to see it have 90 health points too, which would make it awesome to bring with you into any dangerous mine. Right up there rivaling cheese, but without the cost of a barn.

To balance it somewhat, let's say it can only be cooked on a Cookout Kit (for that fresh smoky flavor!) and it is worth like 50 gold to sell.

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

Definitely want something that uses the new found seeds: carrot, summer squash, and broccoli. Each are magnificent food items, though they don't really sell for all that much. I'd like to see it as Grilled Vegetables, and the food value should be 200 energy. I'd love to see it have 90 health points too, which would make it awesome to bring with you into any dangerous mine. Right up there rivaling cheese, but without the cost of a barn.

To balance it somewhat, let's say it can only be cooked on a Cookout Kit (for that fresh smoky flavor!) and it is worth like 50 gold to sell.

What, no love for powdermelons? I think Powdermelon Ice Blocks would be cool to see, with the recipe requiring a powdermelon, milk and something cold like crystal fruit. Perhaps its effects could be increased when consumed during Summer or in a hot place such as the desert or the island.

I do like your idea of Grilled Vegetables using the new crops, though!

[ChrillBill]

Carrot Cake.

It was a crime to add carrots without a recipe for carrot cake! But ConcernedApe is forgiven. Now, this would obviously make good use of carrots, flour and sugar. Oranges as well as pineapples are also a popular ingredient to include. Personally I am partial towards oranges. I imagine it would also fall into the universally loved gifts category in game.

I mean, it's carrot cake...!

It's a lot of work in real life making these, but so worth it!

The carrot cake would also grant the player a very special buff:
Name: Happy ChrillBill
Effect: Attack (+999)
Duration: 5 minutes

Nom nom

[Queen Droxxanna]

there are lots of mods that add all kinds of recipes to the game, and while playing with 300 mods I have NEVER been able to cook all the recipes I have available.

[Snowy Sprout]

We should do a group playthrough then, to focus on gathering everything we need to cook through the entire recipe book!

[Frandez]

I would love desert options!!
Banana Split (ingredients: Banana, Cherry, Ice Cream)
Pineapple Tart (Nastar) (ingredients: Flour, Egg, Pineapple Jam)

Also I want to introduce 2 desert from my country
Rambut Nenek, which translated to Grandma's Hair
Even tho the name of food may sound terrifying, but the food is a candy or cotton sugar and eat it like a sandwich (but with rice cracker not bread). Vincent, Jas, and Leo should love this candy.
Ingredients: Flour, Sugar
Martabak Manis or Terang Bulan, which translated to Sweet Martabak or Moonlight Cake
I think people will say this food is a pancake, also the taste is super sweet like u get a punch! Also this is a sin food, cause your diet routine will be ruined. But the food is great for hangout or gathering with friends or family! Harvey should disliked or neutral this food.
Ingredients: Flour, Milk, Egg, Sugar

Also some new drink recipes!! But my only idea is Mango Smoothie

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by ChrillBill:

Carrot Cake.

It was a crime to add carrots without a recipe for carrot cake! But ConcernedApe is forgiven. Now, this would obviously make good use of carrots, flour and sugar. Oranges as well as pineapples are also a popular ingredient to include. Personally I am partial towards oranges. I imagine it would also fall into the universally loved gifts category in game.

I mean, it's carrot cake...!

It's a lot of work in real life making these, but so worth it!

The carrot cake would also grant the player a very special buff:
Name: Happy ChrillBill
Effect: Attack (+999)
Duration: 5 minutes

Nom nom

I'm actually surprised we never got any new recipes that made use of the new crops added to 1.6. Carrot Cake sounds like a very obvious choice, and would be a welcome addition to the game should CA choose to add it in at some point. Maybe he will in 1.7?

Originally posted by Frandez:

Also some new drink recipes!! But my only idea is Mango Smoothie

Mango + Milk = Mango Smoothie? Yum...
Speaking of smoothies, Strawberry would be a nice flavour to have as well.

[Wolfox]

grilled vegetables would be interesting and balance out smoked fish and dehydrated fruit/mushrooms

[SoloQ]

Baked goods of all varieties. I would give up a toe for a machine that makes pies in the base game.

[Snowy Sprout]

Honestly, the biggest change I want with food is just to have TV recipes reflect the seasons and availability of ingredients as you play. It annoys me so much that your first recipes involve ingredients unavailable in Spring, and several recipes that do use simple spring vegetables or fish are not shown to you until your second year.

By the time I'm able to cook something I most often have no reason to want to cook it.

Take something like Bean Hotpot. Super recipe! Only takes two green beans, which everyone grows in their first spring! Has a magnetism buff useful for people with no rings yet, and has great stats and is profitable to sell! A loved gift for Demetrius, which could set you on a whole other quest path to win his friendship! But it's locked behind getting seven friendship hearts with Clint, who is both unlikeable and either slow or expensive to befriend. It should be the first recipe on the TV, but many people will never even see it, because of that huge roadblock.

For that matter, why not make it easier to begin cooking? Why should cookout kits and kitchens be locked behind such hardships to acquire? Keep them as cool upgrades where they are, maybe, but let players cook somewhere else then, right from the beginning. Maybe in a friend's kitchen if you have two hearts with them? Seems reasonable. A nice, achievable hurdle for your first cooking, to improve your profits or health or whatever. You'd have to use the kitchen while they're home, probably. It would add a lot of flavor to the game!

Also it annoys me a lot that most recipes are so unprofitable. You lose money making them. You also lose food value compared to just eating the ingredients. That's messed up. So it's not only hard to get the recipe, hard to get the kitchen, and hard to get the ingredients, but once you do all those things it's also worse than worthless to eat or sell. I don't know what Concerned Ape was thinking. He's such a genius otherwise I don't know how he messed this up so badly.

[Snowy Sprout]

Okay, here's a recipe suggestion that follows the values I mentioned above:
"Brown Rice Pilaf"
Unmilled Rice, Parsnip, and Kale. You're allowed to craft it without a kitchen, and it is the second recipe shown to you on the TV. It gives a glow effect like a big glow ring that lasts for four hours. So you'd be very motivated to make it, WHICH YOU CAN, so you'll be very motivated to grow kale and rice. There's still time in the season for all of those ingredients to be grown. And it encourages you to make a choice between profits/energy vs. a really useful buff. And isn't the game all about making choices to reflect whatever your priorities are?

"Valentine's Salad"
Tulip and Strawberry. Makes a gift liked by all marriage candidates, with a bonus as if it was a gold-star liked gift. Third recipe on TV. Also has 90 healing points. Craftable without kitchen.

"Corn and Hot Peppers"
Requires oil too. Should be 4th recipe shown on TV. Gives +1 speed, +1 defense buff for two hours. Lets you plan for the coming season.

Summer Recipes:
Week 5 Fish Stew
Week 6 Eggplant Parmesan
Week 7 Pizza
Week 8 Artichoke Dip

Fall Recipes:
Week 9 Super Meal
Week 10 Survival Burger
Week 11 Salmon Dinner
Week 12 Pumpkin Soup

Winter Recipes:
Week 13 Lobster Bisque
Week 14 Banana Pudding
Week 15 Miner's Treat
Week 16 Crab Cakes

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by SoloQ:

Baked goods of all varieties. I would give up a toe for a machine that makes pies in the base game.

Rhubarb Pie and Pumpkin Pie are already recipes you can cook in this game, but yeah, more pies to bake would be nice to see as well. Why not apple pie?

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

"Valentine's Salad"
Tulip and Strawberry. Makes a gift liked by all marriage candidates, with a bonus as if it was a gold-star liked gift. Third recipe on TV. Also has 90 healing points. Craftable without kitchen.

I really like the idea of having cooked meals serving more of a purpose than just for eating or gaining temporary buffs from eating them. We can already gift most meals to villagers, one of Qi's quests requires shipping 100k gold of freshly cooked items, and perfection requires cooking every recipe in the game, but having recipes that have more gameplay functionality like what you mentioned sounds interesting as well.

As an added bonus on top of what you mentioned, gifting Valentine's Salad to a marriage candidate on the 14th of Spring should provide an even bigger friendship boost.

[SoloQ]

Originally posted by NBOX21:

Originally posted by SoloQ:

Baked goods of all varieties. I would give up a toe for a machine that makes pies in the base game.

Rhubarb Pie and Pumpkin Pie are already recipes you can cook in this game, but yeah, more pies to bake would be nice to see as well. Why not apple pie? :HP_Pie:

Quiche too, it's just egg pie. You can basically make a pie out of most of the grown crops. Veggie pie, fruit pie, egg pie, and then all the combinations within those.

[SGT. D]

There is a mod or two for this, but being able to harvest barn animals for meat which could be sold raw to a new vendor, a butcher, or smoked into artisan products.

[ChrillBill]

Another suggestion would be, my real life super delicious "Broccoli Stir Fry Curry"!

Ingredients to be used in the game would be;
*Broccoli (duh!)
*Oil
*Garlic
*Potatoes

There is more to the recipe in real life, but these are the ingredients I can think of
that are also present in the game (without any mods). Gosh, now I got hungry!