Changes cooking recipes to make it more balanced, adds food buffs to some recipes (currently 12 new recipes with buffs and 3 recipes changed), unlocks recipes with new skill levels.

Requires SMAPI and Content Patcher.


Use any fish for Fish Stew and Backed Fish.
Carp Surprise will need only 2 carps instead of 4 and will unlock at Fishing level 5 instead of 2d year TV show
Sashimi will need 2 fishes instead of 1 (I always felt this recipe is a cheating with 1 item)
Bean Hotpot and Algae Soup now need 1 spring onion.
Fish Stew can be cooked early without tomatoes.
Cranberry Candy unlocks at Mining lvl 5 and can be cooked with salmonberies instead of apples.
Fruit Salad unlocks at Combat lvl 5 and uses Spiceberry and Strawberry instead of Blueberry and Melon (Spiceberry and Strawberry had no use in recipes before)
Now you can use forage to make Salad (for some unknown reason it shows ??? in recipe instead of Forage which is game category and cannot be changed on my side. it seems like no one ever used foraged category for cooking so it misses name string? just visual issue. You can use this Mod as a fix for correct display till game dev hopefully will fix this issue within game.

Changes to recipe availability (character skill levels):

Carp Surprise- Fishing 5
Crab Cakes- Fishing 7
Shrimp Cocktail - Fishing 9

Roasted Hazelnuts - Foraging 5
Maple Bar - Foraging 7
Fiddlehead Risotto- Foraging 9

Bruschetta- Farming 5
Poppyseed Muffin- Farming 7
Blackberry Cobbler- Farming 9

Cranberry Candy- Mining 5
Fruit Salad- Combat 5

Updated Recipes:

"Carp Surprise":2 carps
"Baked Fish": 2 fish (any), 1 wheat flour
"Bean Hotpot": 2 beans, 1 spring onion
"Algae Soup": 1 algae, 1 spring onion
"Fish Stew":oyster instead of tomato (now can cook if from crab pot harvestables)
"Sashimi": 2 fish (any)
"Salad": 2 forage (any), 1 vinegar
"Cranberry Candy" 1 cranberry, 1 salmonberry, 1 sugar
"Fruit Salad" 1 Apricot, 1 Spiceberry, 1 Strawberry

Buffs

Changed buffs to vanilla recipes: Complete Breakfast (better buff), Dish O' the Sea (better buff), Pankakes (downgraded).

Added buffs to vanilla recipes:

cheese cauliflower +1 attack, +1 deffence
parsnip soup +1 farming
fried calamari +2 fishing, 30 energy
strange bun +1 luck
pizza +1 defense
salmon dinner +1 luck
chocolate cake 100 energy, 64 magnetism
pink cake +2 mining, +2 defense, +1 attack
cookies +1 farming
maki roll +1 fishing
rice pudding +1 defense, 32 magnetism
blueberry tart +2 farming, +1 speed, 32 magnetism


If you use LimitedCampingCooking Mod I suggest using the following 20 recipes in config.json of that mod. It covers simple dishes you can make on the go.

"Baked Fish",
"Parsnip Soup",
"Vegetable Stew",
"Fried Mushroom",
"Bean Hotpot",
"Carp Surprise",
"Crispy Bass",
"Trout Soup",
"Pumpkin Soup",
"Roots Platter",
"Algae Soup",
"Pale Broth",
"Roasted Hazelnuts",
"Chowder",
"Lobster Bisque",
"Escargot",
"Fish Stew",
"Sashimi",
"Salad",
"Shrimp Cocktail"

I made this simple mod for myself to play 25% profit margin game without seeds in shops, better mixed seeds intead, and few other mods like vinegar, automate. Using forage and fish in cooking is the main source of energy as I can't buy food or grow enough crops.
Let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions.
Have fun! :)

Changelog

My other Mod:
Mixed Seeds from Forage
Coal from Tree Seeds