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The Sims 3 Cooking Guide

List of Recipes With Ingredients and Base Quality

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Every cooking skill level your Sims learn in the Sims 3 will unlock new recipes. Some recipes will be learned automatically. Others will require recipe books that you can buy at the book store in town. Watching cookin' cable and sharing recipes with other Sims via the Share Cooking Secrets interaction are other ways to get them, but not as reliably. Sometimes, in the culinary career track, your Sim will get a task to read a recipe book before the next work day. This lets your Sim learn the recipe free of charge, and gives them a boost to their cooking skill.

I didn't include prices because they're mostly no big deal. The most expensive meal is Lobster Thermidor, coming in at up to $80 for the meal. Most every other meal is under $30. Look to the base quality to see the starting quality of that food item. Basically, this will make it easier for your Sim to produce a perfect product if it's higher. It takes several steps out of the way between your Sim and perfection when you cook Great Stuffed Turkey.

Keep in mind that cooking a meal many times affords the greatest boost to food quality.

Mon-Fri Meal Times Breakfast: 1AM to 11AM Lunch: 11AM to 5PM Dinner: 5PM to 1AM

Weekend Mealtimes Breakfast: 1AM to 9AM Brunch: 9AM to 3PM Lunch: 3PM to 5PM Dinner: 5PM to 1AM

The following recipes can all be cooked for either breakfast or brunch, except ambrosia, which can be cooked at any meal time.

Breakfast and Brunch Recipes
Recipe Name	Ingredients	Base Quality	Learned From	About this Food	Picture of Dish
Waffles	Egg	Normal	Level 0	Level 0
Pancakes	Fruit (even Life Fruit!)	Normal	Cooking Level 1
Peanut Butter and Jelly	Fruit	Normal	Cooking Level 1	Cold Cooked
Fruit Parfait	Apple and Grapes	Nice	Recipe Book (level 4)	Cold Cooked
Eggs Machiavellian	Watermelon, Egg	Very Nice	Recipe Book (level 7)
French Toast	Two Apples and an Egg	Great	Cooking Level 9
Ambrosia	Death Fish and Life Fruit	Perfect	Recipe Book (Level 10)	Always perfect, can be cooked at any time in single serving. Read up on Ambrosia

There are a few meals that can only be eaten for brunch and lunch..

Lunch/Dinner Recipes
Recipe Name	Ingredients	Base Quality	Learned From	About this Food	Picture of Dish
Autumn Salad	Lettuce	Normal	Level 0	Cold Cooked, for Brunch, Lunch and Dinner
Grilled Cheese	Cheese	Normal	Level 0	Lunch only
Hot Dogs	Links	Normal	Level 0	Grilled in Group Portions
Mac and Cheese	Cheese	Normal	Level 0	Lunch and Dinner
Ratatouille	Tomato	Normal	Recipe Book (level 1)	Lunch and Dinner
Goopy Carbonara	Onion	Normal	Cooking Level 2	Lunch and Dinner
Cheesesteak	Cheese and Steak	Nice	Recipe Book (level 5)	Can be Grilled for Lunch and Dinner
Hamburger	Onion, Patty	Very Nice	Cooking Level 6	Can be Grilled for Lunch and Dinner
Dim Sum	Three Fish	Great	Cooking Level 9	Food for Brunch and Lunch only

Dinner only Recipes
Recipe Name	Ingredients	Base Quality	Learned From	About this Food	Picture of Dish
Fish and Chips	Fish	Nice	Recipe Book (level 3)	Can be Grilled
Spaghetti	Tomato	Nice	Cooking Level 4
Sushi	Fish	Nice	Cooking Level 4	Cold Dish
Stu Suprise	Two of Any Ingredients	Nice	Cooking Level 5
Grilled Salmon	Garlic, Potato, Salmon	Very Nice	Cooking Level 8	Can Be Grilled
Tri-Tip Steak	Potato, 1 Vegetable and Steak	Very Nice	Recipe Book (level 8)	Can be Grilled
Stuffed Turkey	Two Vegetables and a Roast	Great	Recipe Book (level 9)	Only available in group portions.
Lobster Thermidor	Garlic, Lobster, Bell Pepper	Great	Cooking Level 10

Dessert Recipes
Recipe Name	Ingredients	Base Quality	Learned From	About this Food	Picture of Dish
Cookies	Egg	Nice	Recipe Book (level 3)
Cobbler	Any Fruit and 1 Egg	Very Nice	Recipe Book (level 6)
Key Lime Pie	Lime and 1 Egg	Very Nice	Cooking Level 7
Baked Angel Food Cake	Flame Fruit and 2 Eggs	Great	Recipe Book (level 10)	Gives the Warm Fuzzies moodlet, which grants +15 mood for 5 hours. Flame Fruit bushes need level 7 Gardening.

The following recipes are only available with The Sims 3's World Adventures expansion. The book store in each specified travel location offers the following recipe books:

World Adventures Recipes
Recipe Name	Ingredients	Base Quality	Learned From	About this Food	Picture of Dish
Cheese Plate	Grapes, Cheese	Normal	France, cooking level 1	Dessert
Bouillabaisse	Fish, Vegetable	Nice	France, cooking level 3	Dinner
Frogs Legs	Garlic, Frog	Nice	France, cooking level 3	Dinner - unlike other recipes your Sim must have frogs in order to prepare this dish, so stock up!
Crepes	2 Fruit Varieties	Very Nice	France, cooking level 8	Breakfast, Brunch
Shawarma	Steak	Normal	Egypt, cooking level 1	Lunch, Dinner
Falafel	Onion, Lettuce	Nice	Egypt, cooking level 5	Lunch, Dinner
Egg Rolls	Egg, Lettuce	Normal	China, cooking level 2	Lunch, Dinner
Stir Fry	Garlic, Bell Pepper	Very Nice	China, cooking level 6	Lunch, Dinner

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