I would love a bigger variety of recipes for cooking and baking and more crops and uses for them.
Combining ingredients to an individual dish would be cool. Per example being able to use our harvested potatoes to make backed potatoes or fries or dishes with effects, especially if we use our own crops (like positive or negative moodlets, depending on how good the dish is and how the preference of the Zoi is). This could go well with a potential grocery shop later.
A certain combination of ingredients could make certain dishes. (Like in the example above potatoes + oil = fries). It doesn’t need to be too complicated. Maybe max. three ingredients. I’ll put example pictures below from the game Sims 2 (PS2 Version) to make it more understandable.
We could learn hidden recipes from other Zoi by talking to them or learn ingredient combinations from cook books and even fail if the combination doesn’t go together.
Another option could be a base recipe like the pizza and we could add something to it like salami, tuna and so on to make it into a different pizza.
The default cooking system we have now should stay part of the game. Instead of replacing it, we could have an option on the fridge that says something like “improvise dish” or “try new recipe”.
It is not a priority, but it would be a nice addition, especially for businesses focused on baking/cooking. I do NOT mean thousands of combinations of recipes (some combinations will have the same dishes as result, otherwise it would be too much).
