Cooking up tasty meals in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life isn’t as easy as it might look when first getting started. Despite having a kitchen in the house right from the start, players won’t know any recipes, and will be limited to just a few meal types to experiment with. Unfortunately, cooking is a needed mechanic, as players have a hunger meter they need to keep an eye on, and they’ll need to boost their energy to finish all the tasks around the farm.
** This guide it still in progress and will continue to update as we gather more information**
Below is everything A Wonderful Life farmers need to know about where to cook, how to level up meal types, find recipes, and make high quality snacks.
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Where to Cook in SoS: A Wonderful Life
To get cooking, players will need to interact with the kitchen in their personal home. Kitchens in other homes will not be useable for any personal cooking projects.
Additionally, when getting started, farmers can only experiment with Soups and Salads. The Hors d’oeuvres, Desserts, and Entrees will become available as the cooking skill is leveled up. Unfortunately, this skill bar is not visible anywhere. Because of this, it is best to cook large quantities of easy recipes like Egg Soup or Herb Soup.
How to Find Recipes in SoS: A Wonderful Life
While the recipe book starts out empty in A Wonderful Life, players have plenty of ways to full it up quickly. This includes finding, inventing, and being gifted recipes.
The easiest way to get started cooking is actually to explore the town of Forgotten Valley. Players will find recipe cards scattered around NPC houses, stuck to outdoor decorations, and even hidden inside potted plants. These recipes can range in difficulty however, and if you aren’t a high enough cooking level, they will appear as “???” in the recipe book.
Another reliable way to get recipes is by visiting the sprite tree by the spring daily. Eat the mushroom in the middle of the patch, and then speak with Ace. Each day, he will gift a random recipe to add to the collection.
A Wonderful Life players can also take a risk and randomly mix ingredients together to unlock recipes. However, I would have to advise against this due to how easy it is to mess up and make a burnt mess of ingredients, and how valuable each crop used will eventually be for creating Hybrids. Many of the recipes also require hybrid crops, making early-game cooking attempts risky business.
How to Get Lou’s Curry Spice in SoS: A Wonderful Life
There are many exciting recipes for players to cook up in A Wonderful Life, and some of them require ingredients that can’t be grown, picked, or bought from a store. To get Lou’s Spice, for example, players must be best friend’s with Lou and receive it as a gift.
Lou loves most types of fruit, making her an easy NPC to grow a friendship with. Because of this, players can usually obtain Lou’s Spice by the end of Year 1 or early in Year 2 if they work hard at befriending her.
Players will need Lou’s Spice for all curry recipes.
All Cooking Recipes in SoS: A Wonderful Life
For those wanting to quickly expand their cooking options in A Wonderful Life, here is a list of all the recipes that can be cooked. It is important to note that most recipes won’t let you use multiples of the same ingredients.
All Soups
| Image | Recipe | Ingredients | Sell Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herbal Soup | x1 Aromatic Herb | 20G | |
| Milky Soup | x1 Any Milk | 150G | |
| Egg Soup | x1 Any Egg | 80G | |
| Tomatoma Soup | x1 Tomato x1 Carrot |
240G | |
| Earth Soup | x2 Potato, Carrot, or Pocaro | 270G | |
| Sweet Potato Soup | x1 Sweet Potato | 180G | |
| Fish Stew | x1 Fish x2 Turnip, Potato, Carrot, or Sweet Potato |
165G | |
| Darn Good Soup | x1 Fish x1 Turnip, Potato, Carrot, or Sweet Potato x1 Pocaro, Pototo, or Swarrot |
TBD | |
| TBD | Borscht | x1 Tomato x1 Turnip, Potato, Carrot, Sweet Potato, Poturnip, Caroturn, Sweetoma, Pomato, Swarrot, Pototo, Pocarot, or Sweeturn x1 Any Milk |
|
| Stew | x1 Any Milk x2 Potato, Carrot, or Pocaro |
465G | |
| Heartwarming Soup | x1 Potato x1 Any Herb x1 Any Mushroom |
255G |
All Salads
| Image | Recipe | Ingredients | Sell Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quick Pickles | x1 Turnip | 75G | |
| Pickles | x1 Carromel | 445G | |
| Marinade | x1 Fish x1 Aromatic Herb x1 Tomato or Turnip |
110G | |
| Mashed Potatoes | x1 Any Milk x1 Potato |
330G | |
| TBD | Caprese Salad | x1 Tomato x1 Any Cheese |
TBD |
| Tomacaro Salad | x1 Tomato X1 Carrot |
240G | |
| Tomamelo Salad | x1 Tomato x1 Melon |
315G | |
| Egg Salad | x1 Egg x2 Tomato, Greetoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, or Camelo |
TBD | |
| TBD | Fruit Salad | x2 Any Fruit x1 Tomato, Greetoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, or Camelo |
230G |
| TBD | Scarlet Salad | x3 Tomato, Turnmato, Tocarro, Turnberry, or Carberry | TBD |
| TBD | Turnberry Salad | x1 Turnberry x2 Tomato, Greetoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, or Camelo |
TBD |
| Potamelo Salad | x1 Potato x2 Tomato, Greetoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, or Camelo |
1,050G | |
| TBD | Pickled Veggies | x2 Caroturn, Sweeturn, Turnmato, Waturnip, Rare Crop | TBD |
| Melon Salad | x1 Melon x2 Tomato, Greetoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, or Camelo |
TBD | |
| Cobb Salad | x1 Any Eggs x1 Any Fish x1 Any Veggie |
170G | |
| Carpaccio | x1 Any Fish x1 Aromatic Herb |
35G | |
| TBD | Rare Salad | x1 Rare Crop (We have #3) x2 Tomato, Greetoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, or Camelo |
1,610G |
All Hors d’oeuvres
| Image | Recipe | Ingredients | Sell Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stargazy Pie | x1 Fish x1 Any Eggs x1 Potato |
305G | |
| TBD | Veggie Tempura | x1 Sweet Potato x2 Any Herb or Mushroom |
220G |
| TBD | Shroom Stir-Fry | x1 Tomato, Turnip, Potato, Carrot or and hybrid containing these crops x1 Any Mushroom x1 Any Butter |
TBD |
| Sashimi | x1 Fish | 15G | |
| Grape Pie | x1 Grapes x1 Any Butter x1 Any Eggs |
390G | |
| TBD | Blue-Sky Pie | x1 Waterblue, Strawblueys, Meloblue, Peablu, Blorange, Grablues, Bluenanas, or Abblu x1 Any Butter x1 Any Eggs |
TBD |
| TBD | Strawberry Pie | x1 Strawberries x1 Any Egg x1 Any Butter |
TBD |
| TBD | Melon Pie | x1 Melon x1 Any Butter x1 Any Eggs |
TBD |
| Veggie Stir-Fry | x2 Any Veggie x1 Any Butter |
430G | |
| Starchy Veggies | x1 Potato x2 Turnip, Carrot, Poturnip, Caroturn, Pocaro |
390G | |
| TBD | Nutty Stir-Fry | x1 Tomato, Turnip, Potato, Carrot, Sweet Potato, or hybrid of these veggies x1 Rare Crop #3 |
TBD |
| Super Sashimi | x2 Any Fish | 25G |
All Desserts
| Image | Recipe | Ingredients | Sell Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Cream | x1 Brown Milk x1 Star Milk |
600G | |
| Papple Jam | x1 Papple | 205G | |
| Banorange Jam | x1 Banorange | 215G | |
| Grorange Punch | x1 Grorange | 210G | |
| Blue Jam | x1 Waterblue, Strawblueys, Meloblue, Peablu, Blorange, Grablues, Bluenanas, or Abblu | 330G | |
| TBD | Egg Tart | x1 Any Egg x1 Any Butter |
TBD |
| Melosweet Ice Cream | x1 Melosweet x1 Brown Milk x1 Star Milk |
1,100G | |
| TBD | Pound Cake | x1 Any Butter x1 Any Milk x1 Any Eggs |
TBD |
| Carrot Cake | x1 Carrot, x1 Any Milk, x1 Any Egg | 440G | |
| Veggie Cake | x1 Tomato, Greetoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, or Camelo x1 Any Milk x1 Any Egg |
335G | |
| Strawberry Shortcake | x1 Strawberries x1 Any Milk x1 Any Eggs |
400G | |
| TBD | Turnberry Cake | x1 Turnberry, x1 Any Milk, x1 Any Eggs |
TBD |
| Veggie Juice | x1 Tomato or Carrot x1 Greetoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, or Camelo |
415G | |
| Baked Sweet Potato | x1 Sweet Potato | 180G | |
| TBD | Peach Tart | x1 Peach x1 Any Butter x1 Any Egg |
TBD |
| Lovely Smoothie | x1 Watermelon x1 Grapes |
300G | |
| TBD | Thick Juice | x2 Strawberries, Peach, Banana x1 Star Milk |
TBD |
| TBD | Sweet Potato Tarts | x1 Sweet Potato x1 Any Eggs x1 Any Milk |
TBD |
| TBD | Smoothie | x1 Melotoma x1 Grapples |
TBD |
| TBD | Sweet Smoothie | x1 Orapple x1 Grananas |
TBD |
| Fruit Juice | x2 AnyFruit x1 Any Milk |
375G | |
| TBD | Sour Smoothie | x1 Grapes x1 Rare Tree #9 |
TBD |
| Tasty Juice | x1 Tomato or Carrot x1 Greetoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, or Camelo x1 Orange, Grapes, or Apple |
480G | |
| Fruit Punch | x3 Any Fruit | 485G | |
| TBD | Dancing Dessert | x1 Rare Crop (we used #14) x1 any base fruit of tier 1 hybrid x1 Rare Tree (we have #1, #3, #6, #8, #9) |
TBD |
All Entrees
| Image | Recipe | Ingredients | Sell Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwich | x1 Aromatic Herb x1 Any Egg |
100G | |
| TBD | Kabayaki Grilled Fish | x1 Amur Catfish or Unagi | TBD |
| TBD | Omelet | x1 Any Egg x1 Any Butter |
TBD |
| Meuniere Set | x1 Any Fish x1 Any Butter |
290G | |
| Sushi | x1 Scad, Calamari, Red Sea Bream, Ahi, or Langouste | 25G | |
| TBD | Blue Curry | x1 Any Blue Crop x1Lou’s Spice |
TBD |
| Mushroom Gratin | x2 Any Milk, Butter, or Cheese x1 Any Mushroom |
455G | |
| TBD | Mushroom Curry | x1 Potato, Carrot, or Pocaro x1 Any Mushroom x1 Lou’s Spice |
TBD |
| TBD | Gratin | x1 Any Cheese x1 Any Butter x1 Any Milk |
TBD |
| Herbal Hot Pot | x1 Any Vegetable x1 Any Fish x1 Aromatic Herb |
110G | |
| Bibimbap | x1 Any Egg x1 Any Herb x1 Turnip, Potato, Carrot, Sweet Potato, Poturnip, Caroturn, Sweetoma, Pomato, Swarrot, Pototo, Pocarot, or Sweeturn |
175G | |
| Udon | x1 Any Fish x2 Any Root Veggie |
150G | |
| TBD | Veggie Biryani | x1 Tomato x1 Turnip, Potato, Carrot, Sweet Potato, Poturnip, Caroturn, Sweetoma, Pomato, Swarrot, Pototo, Pocarot, or Sweeturn x1 Lou’s Spice |
TBD |
| TBD | Curry | x2 Potato, Carrot, or Pocaro x1 Lou’s Spice |
TBD |
| Cheese Fondue | x1 Any Cheese x2 Any Fruit or Veggie |
385G | |
| TBD | Ink-Black Pasta | x1 Calamari x1 Tomato |
TBD |
Once cooked, these Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life recipes will populate in the encyclopedia for those trying to find one of every item in the game. They can then be eaten for energy or sold for a decent profit. However, players wanting to make the most of hybrid crops early will want to be careful, as it’s easy to unstock a kitchen while cooking up tasty treats.
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