Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life Remake Cooking Guide – Recipes, Cooking Levels & Storage

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.

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.

Related: Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life Remake Complete Guide – Animals, Farming, Romance & Chapter Walkthrough

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
	Borscht	x1 Tomato x1 Turnip, Potato, Carrot, Sweet Potato, Poturnip, Caroturn, Sweetoma, Pomato, Swarrot, Pototo, Pocarot, or Sweeturn x1 Any Milk	330G
	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
	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 #4	TBD
	Melon Salad	x1 Melon x2 Tomato, Greetoma, Berrytoma, Melotoma, Turnmato, Tocarro, Waturnip, Carromel, Turnberry, Carberry, Turmelon, or Camelo	670G
	Cobb Salad	x1 Any Eggs x1 Any Fish x1 Any Veggie	170G
	Carpaccio	x1 Any Fish x1 Aromatic Herb	35G
	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
	Veggie Tempura	x1 Sweet Potato x2 Any Herb or Mushroom	220G
	Shroom Stir-Fry	x1 Tomato, Turnip, Potato, Carrot or and hybrid containing these crops x1 Any Mushroom x1 Any Butter	355G
TBD	Kakiage Tempura	x1 Any Herb or Mushroom x1 Rare Crop #4 (Eggplant) x1 Any Fish	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
	Fluffy Pie	x1 Rare Tree Crop #6 (Chestnut) x1 Any Butter x1 Any Egg	650G
	Strawberry Pie	x1 Strawberries x1 Any Egg x1 Any Butter	390G
	Melon Pie	x1 Melon x1 Any Butter x1 Any Eggs	485G
	Veggie Stir-Fry	x2 Any Veggie x1 Any Butter	430G
	Starchy Veggies	x1 Potato x2 Turnip, Carrot, Poturnip, Caroturn, Pocaro	390G
	Nutty Stir-Fry	x1 Tomato, Turnip, Potato, Carrot, Sweet Potato, or hybrid of these veggies x1 Rare Crop #3	1,035G
	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
	Egg Tart	x1 Any Egg x1 Any Butter	395G
	Melosweet Ice Cream	x1 Melosweet x1 Brown Milk x1 Star Milk	1,100G
	Pound Cake	x1 Any Butter x1 Any Milk x1 Any Eggs	575G
	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
	Peach Tart	x1 Peach x1 Any Butter x1 Any Egg	450G
	Lovely Smoothie	x1 Watermelon x1 Grapes	300G
	Thick Juice	x2 Strawberries, Peach, Banana x1 Star Milk	510G
	Sweet Potato Tarts	x1 Sweet Potato x1 Any Eggs x1 Any Milk	510G
TBD	Smoothie	x1 Melotoma x1 Grapples	TBD
TBD	Sweet Smoothie	x1 Orapple x1 Grananas	TBD
	Fruit Juice	x2 AnyFruit x1 Any Milk	375G
	Sour Smoothie	x1 Grapes x1 Rare Tree #9	600G
	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
	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)	1,680G

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
	Omelet	x1 Any Egg x1 Any Butter	330G
	Meuniere Set	x1 Any Fish x1 Any Butter	290G
	Sushi	x1 Scad, Calamari, Red Sea Bream, Ahi, or Langouste	25G
	Blue Curry	x1 Any Blue Crop x1Lou’s Spice	330G
	Mushroom Gratin	x2 Any Milk, Butter, or Cheese x1 Any Mushroom	455G
	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
	Veggie Biryani	x1 Tomato x1 Turnip, Potato, Carrot, Sweet Potato, Poturnip, Caroturn, Sweetoma, Pomato, Swarrot, Pototo, Pocarot, or Sweeturn x1 Lou’s Spice	145G
TBD	Curry	x2 Potato, Carrot, or Pocaro x1 Lou’s Spice	TBD
TBD	Veggie Pasta	x1 Tocarro or Tomato x1 Rare Crop #4 (Eggplant)	TBD
	Cheese Fondue	x1 Any Cheese x2 Any Fruit or Veggie	385G
	Ink-Black Pasta	x1 Calamari x1 Tomato	165G

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.

Farming enthusiasts looking for more tips and tricks can check out Gamepur’s complete guide for Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life.