Cooking is a satisfying pastime and a buildable skill inStory of Seasons: A Wonderful Life. You can turn the crops you so painstakingly grew into delicious meals. Forageables, animal products, and fish can also be useful ingredients. Cooked dishes make excellent gifts and tend to sell for more than the raw ingredients alone.
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As a rule of thumb, dishes made with a higher number of ingredients restore more Stamina and raise your Fullness level faster. Some recipes take longer to acquire than others, andcertain ingredients are rareor only become available late in the game. You should prioritize unlocking and routinely making a select few recipes while working toward completing your recipe book. To help you out, here are the best recipes to fill your Fullness bar and befriend the villagers.
The villagers Takakura, Matthew, Gary, Gustafa, Gordy, Rock, Lumina, Tei, and San like receiving meals as gifts across the board.
8Marinade
Marinadeis one of the earliest recipes you may make. If you talk to Nina when she is at home, she will teach you the recipe for Marinade. It requiresone Fish of any type or size, either a Tomato or a Turnip, and one Aromatic Herb.
In the Spring, you may find Aromatic Herbs on your farm. Since it is possible to acquire a Fish, Tomato, and Aromatic Herb in your very first season, Marinade is an ideal early-game recipe. Also, Carter likes Salads, so he will appreciate it if you gift him Marinade.
7Sandwich
TheSandwichis a classic recipe. While you can order a Club Sandwich from the Bluebird Café, it is more gratifying to make one from scratch. There are only two ingredients: one Egg and an Aromatic Herb. You will want to stock up on Aromatic Herbs in the Spring so that you can feast on sandwiches and marinade year round.
To make this recipe, you must improve your cooking skill and successfully make more than 30 meals to unlock the Entrées category. Once you do, you can make sandwiches and a variety of other recipes.
6Cobb Salad
Cobb Saladis another dish in the Salad category, available at the start of the game along with Soup. Made up of three different ingredients, the Cobb Salad is a filling meal worth mastering early on.
When youcombine an Egg, a Fish, and any Crop you have grown, you get a Cobb Salad. Unlike Marinade, which requires an Aromatic Herb that can only be found in the Spring, the recipe for Cobb Salad does not involve seasonal ingredients. It does, however, require that you care for your chickens, go fishing, and tend to your fields.
5Mushroom Gratin
When Autumn rolls around, you may forage mushrooms in Forgotten Valley and cook them into hearty meals. Mushrooms are nutritious ingredients used in high-recovery recipes, including Heartwarming Soup, Mushroom Pasta, andMushroom Gratin.
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Mushroom Gratin is not too complicated but is still as filling as most other mushroom dishes. This entrée entails one Mushroom of any type and two Milks,Butters, or Cheesesof B grade or higher. The easiest combination is two Milks and one Mushroom, but you can mix and match ingredients.
4Fruit Punch
You can cultivate an orchard on your farm and harvest fruits. Once you’ve given away your fruits and become best friends with Chris and Lou, what should you do with your leftover produce? Make punch!
Fruit Punchis a Dessert, so it requires a relatively high cooking skill. Yet making punch is easy with fruit trees: you mix three different fruits with no two of the same kind. For example, Grape, Peach, and Orange will yield punch, but if you only have two unique fruits, you can make Fruit Juice instead by mixing two fruits.
3Milky Soup
In Spring of Year One, you can accept a Bulletin Board request to deliverMilky Soupto Gordy. This basic recipe calls for one Milk, with the caveat that the Milk is of B quality or higher. Cows with low health will produce Milk C that is too low-grade to ship, but you can discard or sell Milk C at Van’s Shop to make room in your inventory.
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Flora and Nami enjoy receiving Milky Soup as a gift, so it is one of the best recipes for being both likable and easy to make.
2Curry
There are four types of curry in A Wonderful Life: Blue Curry, Mushroom Curry, Spicy Curry, and classicCurry. To cook any of the curry recipes, you will need to obtainLou’s Spiceby befriending Lou. She likes fruit, milk, and vegetables. After a year or so of consistent dialogue and gift-giving, you will receive her special spice.
Then, you can cook Curry by combining Lou’s Spice with two different vegetables, choosing from a Potato, Carrot, and Pocaro. So, you can cook with one Potato and one Carrot, but you cannot successfully make Curry with two Carrots. The townsfolk Vesta, Gustafa, and Molly will thank you if you share your Curry dishes with them.
1Sashimi
Sashimiis one of the more difficult recipes to unlock because it is in the Entrée category, but it is also one of the most useful. Carter, Sully, and Garrett all like Sashimi, and it takes only one Fish of any kind to make. Likewise, Super Sashimi requires two Fish and is comparable with Sashimi. With the Sashimi recipe, you can finally cook fish without having to ask which herb or vegetable pairs with the catch of the day.
None of the recipes in A Wonderful Life require non-fish meat as an ingredient, so pescatarians rejoice! If you want to challenge yourself and cook strictly vegetarian dishes, scratch this last recipe off your list.
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