03-04-2015, 06:56 PM
We had a discussion on this in OOC the other day, but I didn't have the time to post my reply to this thread. So, I'd like to bump it and agree with it, as well as offer a few of my own suggestions. I rather enjoy cooking and good food in the real world, and having a wide variety of recipes can certainly add to RP from my perspective. Having a few high quality recipes and the ability to use more of the ingredients we have would be really nice.
I also agree that adding the ingredients purchasable in Oniga to the portable kitchen would be really nice as a convenience thing. Even if they are more expensive.
Drinks would also be a very welcome addition, in either or both nonalcoholic and alcoholic form. I was making a small bar in my house and was looking some suitable items to display, and the medium potions were the only thing that really worked. I mean I guess people can down mind enhancers at a party, that adds a rather unique spin on things I suppose. Having more traditional options would be nice too though. Grapes are pretty much entirely unused from what I see, and they could be used for wine, rice for sake, etc. I really miss the teas from SL1 as well whenever I pick up shy snow flowers or hidden violets.
Here's a few recipe ideas though, some recycled from SL1. I don't mean to say implement everything, but might as well get some examples out there (No ingredient numbers assigned for now):
Recipes
A lot of the other stuff suggested already is pretty good I have to say, and I'm in favor of it. (Though I do question the addition of lettuce and tomatoes to a fruit salad, as most fruit salad as I know it is just a mix of fruit. I know there's stuff like spinach and strawberry salads though I don't consider them as "fruit salads". The four fruit items combined should work perfectly though. Maybe add cherries)
Cakes
Everybody loves cake, but we currently live in a cakeless world. Although we technically lack milk as an ingredient, one could probably use the following to make a simple white or yellow cake:
-Flour
-Sugar
-Eggs
-Butter
Frosting could be made with Sugar and Butter if we wanted to make that a separate ingredient.
One could possibly get fancy and add ingredients like cooking chocolate or carrots to make different kinds of cakes. We could explore it more with things like strawberries, lemons, peanut butter or whatnot, but those three above options are probably the main contenders.
Misc. Recipes
Steak
Where would we be without good steaks? Technically all you would probably need for a steak is
-Wrap of Beef
-Salt
-Maybe Spices
If we wanted to make this recipe harder to make by adding rarer ingredients, we could make it a steak dinner or something possibly with
-a baked potato
-sauteed onions and/or mushrooms
Cornbread
Corn could use some love
-Flour (A number of recipes use both flour and cornmeal)
-Corn
-Butter
-Eggs
-(Salt and sugar are minor ingredients, and their inclusion is optional)
Brownies
This also hits up another neglected ingredient, mixed nuts. We need more chocolate items though. Not my first choice for something to add, though it came to mind when looking for ways to use these up.
-Flour
-Sugar
-Eggs
-Butter
-Cooking Chocolate
-Mixed Nuts
Alternately, maybe allow use to make some sort of candy on our own. Cooking chocolate, nuts, and sugar to sweeten it up possibly to form some sort of chocolates. Could use other things like fruits as well. These could have the sugar rush buff like treasure ball candies in exchange for having lower base % restoration due to being candy and tiny.
Turnips
Turnips need some recipes, but I'm having a hard time coming up with something really good for them. Generally, I guess people roast them, mash them, or put them in a gratin.
Here's a potato and turnip gratin that would probably look something like Potato/Turnip/Cheese/Butter: http://food52.com/recipes/24956-mashed-p...nip-gratin
Noodle Dishes
Even though noodles have a number of recipes, I still feel like there could be more. We could get a few Oniga themed Asian dishes in here, or other things from other cultures. Noodles have a lot of uses overall. Here's a few examples:
Soba
Cold soba isn't really a typical sight in games, but it's simple and delicious.
-Noodles
-Seaweed
-Maybe salt or spices to cover other ingredients (tsuyu sauce being the main one) as they don't exist as items. Onion is debatable as it is normally served with green onion and not the ones we have in game. Maybe turnips for grated daikon though turnips aren't really radishes, so it's debatable as well. It'll at least use up those turnips.
Fettuccine Alfredo and the dishes derived from it
This is simple and has been around for a long time, and we have the three core ingredients right here.
-Noodles
-Cheese
-Butter
That's all you really need, but we could also add these:
-Wrap of Poultry or Fresh Krill Meat
Drinks
Drinks are nice, and there's a wide variety of items that could be used with them. As for their exact effects, it's debatable as to what they could do. Perhaps they could be small status effects that persist over the course of a few battles like food does. They could maybe give small stat boosts while alcohol related items give some and take away some due to impairment. It could end up making alchemy a bit more relevant than what it is right now. Here's a few item ideas though:
Teas (The three old ones)
-Shy Snow Flowers/Hidden Violets/Seaweed/Possibly other plants
Teas aren't complicated ingredient wise. The usage of pure water is up for debate, but I think that makes teas too expensive unless they had significant benefits. Most cooking recipes that need water and even alchemy recipes usually take plain normal water as a given ingredient, and I feel teas should probably be the same unless we're making the best tea the world has ever seen.
Juices
We have a lot of fruit and not all of it gets a lot of love. This can help.
-Grape/Apple/Cranberry/Tangerine (Gotta have orange juice somehow)
These are probably the big ones, but there's a few possible but unlikely ones involving cherries, strawberries, and watermelon.
Vegetable juices are also a thing:
-Carrots/Tomato
Lemonade can be made with obvious ingredients
-Lemons
-Sugar
The pure water issue comes into play once again here, but I imagine it's probably a given ingredient.
Alcohol
I'm not sure what your stance on adding alcohol to the game would be, so I won't go into it too much. Wine, sake, vodka are what immediately come to mind while looking at the ingredients though. Being able to have high quality wines and stuff would be nice though.
I also agree that adding the ingredients purchasable in Oniga to the portable kitchen would be really nice as a convenience thing. Even if they are more expensive.
Drinks would also be a very welcome addition, in either or both nonalcoholic and alcoholic form. I was making a small bar in my house and was looking some suitable items to display, and the medium potions were the only thing that really worked. I mean I guess people can down mind enhancers at a party, that adds a rather unique spin on things I suppose. Having more traditional options would be nice too though. Grapes are pretty much entirely unused from what I see, and they could be used for wine, rice for sake, etc. I really miss the teas from SL1 as well whenever I pick up shy snow flowers or hidden violets.
Here's a few recipe ideas though, some recycled from SL1. I don't mean to say implement everything, but might as well get some examples out there (No ingredient numbers assigned for now):
Recipes
A lot of the other stuff suggested already is pretty good I have to say, and I'm in favor of it. (Though I do question the addition of lettuce and tomatoes to a fruit salad, as most fruit salad as I know it is just a mix of fruit. I know there's stuff like spinach and strawberry salads though I don't consider them as "fruit salads". The four fruit items combined should work perfectly though. Maybe add cherries)
Cakes
Everybody loves cake, but we currently live in a cakeless world. Although we technically lack milk as an ingredient, one could probably use the following to make a simple white or yellow cake:
-Flour
-Sugar
-Eggs
-Butter
Frosting could be made with Sugar and Butter if we wanted to make that a separate ingredient.
One could possibly get fancy and add ingredients like cooking chocolate or carrots to make different kinds of cakes. We could explore it more with things like strawberries, lemons, peanut butter or whatnot, but those three above options are probably the main contenders.
Misc. Recipes
Steak
Where would we be without good steaks? Technically all you would probably need for a steak is
-Wrap of Beef
-Salt
-Maybe Spices
If we wanted to make this recipe harder to make by adding rarer ingredients, we could make it a steak dinner or something possibly with
-a baked potato
-sauteed onions and/or mushrooms
Cornbread
Corn could use some love
-Flour (A number of recipes use both flour and cornmeal)
-Corn
-Butter
-Eggs
-(Salt and sugar are minor ingredients, and their inclusion is optional)
Brownies
This also hits up another neglected ingredient, mixed nuts. We need more chocolate items though. Not my first choice for something to add, though it came to mind when looking for ways to use these up.
-Flour
-Sugar
-Eggs
-Butter
-Cooking Chocolate
-Mixed Nuts
Alternately, maybe allow use to make some sort of candy on our own. Cooking chocolate, nuts, and sugar to sweeten it up possibly to form some sort of chocolates. Could use other things like fruits as well. These could have the sugar rush buff like treasure ball candies in exchange for having lower base % restoration due to being candy and tiny.
Turnips
Turnips need some recipes, but I'm having a hard time coming up with something really good for them. Generally, I guess people roast them, mash them, or put them in a gratin.
Here's a potato and turnip gratin that would probably look something like Potato/Turnip/Cheese/Butter: http://food52.com/recipes/24956-mashed-p...nip-gratin
Noodle Dishes
Even though noodles have a number of recipes, I still feel like there could be more. We could get a few Oniga themed Asian dishes in here, or other things from other cultures. Noodles have a lot of uses overall. Here's a few examples:
Soba
Cold soba isn't really a typical sight in games, but it's simple and delicious.
![[Image: zarusobafinal1.jpg]](http://globetrotterdiaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/zarusobafinal1.jpg)
-Seaweed
-Maybe salt or spices to cover other ingredients (tsuyu sauce being the main one) as they don't exist as items. Onion is debatable as it is normally served with green onion and not the ones we have in game. Maybe turnips for grated daikon though turnips aren't really radishes, so it's debatable as well. It'll at least use up those turnips.
Fettuccine Alfredo and the dishes derived from it
This is simple and has been around for a long time, and we have the three core ingredients right here.
-Noodles
-Cheese
-Butter
That's all you really need, but we could also add these:
-Wrap of Poultry or Fresh Krill Meat
Drinks
Drinks are nice, and there's a wide variety of items that could be used with them. As for their exact effects, it's debatable as to what they could do. Perhaps they could be small status effects that persist over the course of a few battles like food does. They could maybe give small stat boosts while alcohol related items give some and take away some due to impairment. It could end up making alchemy a bit more relevant than what it is right now. Here's a few item ideas though:
Teas (The three old ones)
-Shy Snow Flowers/Hidden Violets/Seaweed/Possibly other plants
Teas aren't complicated ingredient wise. The usage of pure water is up for debate, but I think that makes teas too expensive unless they had significant benefits. Most cooking recipes that need water and even alchemy recipes usually take plain normal water as a given ingredient, and I feel teas should probably be the same unless we're making the best tea the world has ever seen.
Juices
We have a lot of fruit and not all of it gets a lot of love. This can help.
-Grape/Apple/Cranberry/Tangerine (Gotta have orange juice somehow)
These are probably the big ones, but there's a few possible but unlikely ones involving cherries, strawberries, and watermelon.
Vegetable juices are also a thing:
-Carrots/Tomato
Lemonade can be made with obvious ingredients
-Lemons
-Sugar
The pure water issue comes into play once again here, but I imagine it's probably a given ingredient.
Alcohol
I'm not sure what your stance on adding alcohol to the game would be, so I won't go into it too much. Wine, sake, vodka are what immediately come to mind while looking at the ingredients though. Being able to have high quality wines and stuff would be nice though.
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