Harvest Moon: It's a Wonderful Life, SE - Recipes and Cooking Guide

In Harvest Moon, It's a Wonderful Life there's a huge variety of meals that you can cook ranging from desserts to starters and everything in between.You can cook things in your kitchen for a few reasons and one of those is that they provide far better sustenance than the wild plants found around the valley, the guide on those can be found here if you'd like more information on flowers and wild plants. 

Cooked meals will boost not only your stamina but your spirit too and keep you smiling all the time. If you’re happy you won’t have nightmares and you won’t tire so easily, besides not looking depressed all the time which is kind of disconcerting when you’re trying to enjoy a game. Another valuable reason to cook things is that they can dramatically increase the worth of the ingredients put into them. This isn’t a rule of thumb; quite often the ingredients cost a lot more than the overall dish once it’s completed but I’ll show you below which things make the most money. Certain people in the village will also appreciate your home cooking such as Takakura and Marlin, if you want to make friends with them, which you do, then cooking is cheaper than S-crop produce which they also like. Lastly, recipes are fun to make; all the plates and things look different and when you have a family you can stock your fridge full of your unique food.

To get more recipes you need to make 25 meals out of soups and salads. This will give you entrees and desserts. Once you’ve unlocked those ones you can then make an additional 10 more meals to unlock main courses. For the first 25 meals you can just make light pickles which only require one turnip. In Summer, plant 25 turnips and by the end of the month you’re laughing. 

Tip: Using different grades of crop has no impact on the value of your finished meal. Grow regular B ranked crops that are intended to be put in a recipe and keep your S ranked crops for your seed maker or for selling. For more information on crops, click here.

Below is the list of all recipes in the game, you’ll notice many of them include ‘rare crop’ or ‘rare tree’ then a number. You’ll also notice weird sounding things like ‘Dhilon’ or ‘Gretoma’. If you’re in the first chapter of the game then ignore this, you can access them later on by basically combining two types of tree or two types of crop into new ones. 

Soups:

Earth soup: Potato + Carrot (100G)
Fish stew: Potato _+ Carrot + Fish (250G - > 300G)
Stew: Potato + Carrot + Milk (200G –> 240G) 
Tomatoma Soup: Tomato + Carrot (90G) 
Yam Soup: Yam (110G -> 132G) 
Good soup: Fish + Turnip + Bashota (250G -> 300G) 
Super soup: Rare crop 10-13 + Rare crop 18-21 (400G -> 480G) 
Good 4 U Soup: Rare crop 08 + Rare crop 17 + Rare crop 14, 23 or 24 (400G -> 480G)

Salads:

Dhibe Salad: Dhibe + Tomato + Berrytoma (35G)
Egg salad: Egg + Tomato + Gretoma (25G) 
Mellow Salad: Melotoma + Dhilon + Rare tree 02 (35G) 
Good pickles: Rare crop 14 + Rare crop 22 (60G) 
Fruit salad: Apple + Orange + Tomato (40G) 
Light pickles: Turnip (25G) 
Marinade: Fish + Mugwort + Tomato (35G) 
Melon salad: Melon + Apple + Orange (25G) 
Tomacaro Salad: Tomato + Carrot (35G) 
Tomamelo Salad: Tomato + Melon (35G) 
Red Veggie: Rare crop 18 + Tomato + Trady (35G)
 

Entree:

Sashimi: Fish (150G -> 180G)
Sashimi (S): Fish + Fish (200G -> 240G) 
Mixed fry: Fish + Mushroom + RC 04/09 (95G) 
Fried Nuts: Any Root Veg/Tomato + RC 03 + Butter (70G) 
Fried Veggie: Any Root Veg /Tomato + Any Root Veg /Tomato + Butter (70G) 
Fried Mushroom: Mushroom + Any Root Veg/Tomato + Butter (80G) 
Smooth Veggies: Potato + Turnip/Carrot/Tataro/Radita/Cady + Same as previous (175G -> 210G) 
Tempura: Yam + Wild plant/mushroom + Wild plant/mushroom (80G) 

Main courses:

Baked Tataro: Tataro + Egg + RC 23/24 (125G -> 150G)
Bean Bowl: RC 07 (150G -> 180G)
Mountain Bowl: RC 09 + Mugwort + Matsutake (150G -> 180G)
Curry: Potato + Carrot + Ruby's Spice (200G -> 240G)
Hot Curry: Carrot + RC 11 + Ruby's Spice (250G -> 300G)
Mushroom Curry: Potato + Hackberry + Ruby's Spice (200G -> 240G)
Fish Set: RC 23/24 + Fish (250G -> 300G)
Meuniere Set: Fish + Butter (250G -> 300G)
Gratin: Milk + Butter + Cheese(200G -> 240G)
Mushroom Gratin: Butter + Milk + Matsutake (150G -> 180G)
Mushroom Pasta: Cady + RC 14 (225G -> 270G)
Veggie Pasta: RC 04 + Tomato + Mugwort (200G -> 240G)
Mixed Veggies: Potato/Berrican + Egg + RC 07 (150G -> 180G)
Omelette: Egg + Butter (200G -> 240G)
Rootbaisse: Carrot + RC 23/24 (125G -> 150G) 

Desserts:

Carrot cake: Carrot + Egg + Milk (150G -> 180G)
Grilled Yam: Yam (75G) 
Veggie Cake: Tomato + Egg + Milk (150G -> 180G) 
Sweet Potato: Yam + Butter + Egg (150G -> 180G) 
Pound Cake: Milk + Egg + Butter (175G -> 210G) 
Fruit Juice: Milk + Peach + Grape (50G) 
Rich Juice: Star Milk + Banana + Peach (75G) 
Cocktail: Phuju + Melotoma (190G -> 228G) 
Love Cocktail: Watermelon + Grape (200G -> 240G) 
Sweet Cocktail: Gehju + Oraphu (200G -> 240G) 
Fruit Punch: Any 3 fruits (150G -> 180G) 
Peach Tart: Peach + Egg + Butter (125G -> 150G) 
Strawberry Cake: Strawberry + Egg + Milk (190G) 
Kashry Ice Cream: Kashry + Brown Milk + Star Milk (150G-> 180G) 
Ice Cream: Brown Milk + Star Milk (110G -> 132G) 
Dhibe Cake: Dhibe + Egg + Milk (1675G -> 2010G) 
Dancing Dessert: Apple + RC 10 – 13 + RT 01 – 09 (350G -> 420G) 
Juice DX: RC 01/06 + Carrot + Orange 
Super Yam: RC 16 (400G -> 480G)