Question About Produce

For anyone interested I started a mini database with ingredients and recipes inspired by Cottage Living, some time ago. I had no time to complete it, so I've not announced it quite yet (a few errors in thee might occur), but I sometime find it useful even if it's "in the works". You will i.e. find most ingredients and can then see all recipes that ingredients can be used for. Info include needed skills, cost and number servings, but the latter got a bit confusing. My database bases on regular recipes, the "simple living" had too much variation to find a good way to include both, but basically one needs more ingredients with the SL challenge.

Re Pears, they are mentioned as one of a few fruits for Fruit pie and Fruitcake. I did not find any exclusive recipe with them, but in my game I often set a trad recipe for a family, like I could make fruit pie with pear their trad, and therefore have a good excuse to grow those pears. Or they could make a business from selling prepared food with certain ingredients. I'm fine with "any fruit/veggie as long as we can add a little imagination ourselves ;)

@Simmerville Not to harp on it but the “pear” pie still says “fruit pie” and has pink filling. But thank you for confirming it’s not exclusively called for in any recipes.

"babajayne;c-17993963" wrote:
@Simmerville Not to harp on it but the “pear” pie still says “fruit pie” and has pink filling. But thank you for confirming it’s not exclusively called for in any recipes.

Ha, I must admit i never looked that closely on any prepared food :) Would appreciate it if the visuals actually reflected what ingredient was chosen. Small details that makes a difference, and probably are quite easy to program.

Must say I do miss the damping most from newly cooked food like we had in TS2. For TS4 freshly baked breads looks just like old breads, but most of out curtains are animated to move constantly, although we can't open the windows which might have caused such movement. It's not always easy to understand those programmers ;)

I’ve shared what I have decided to stop growing. Now I can share what I’ve decided to grow that will cover a vast majority of the recipes. The only things I’m not mentioning here is sage and parsley because I can open a few herb seed packets and be all set with those for a lifetime.

The first two are always in season - I decided to graft everything possible to these so I get everything consistently.
• Lemon
• Chocoberry
(lemon is very useful in gourmet recipes, but chocoberry might be a better choice because it’s smaller and can be preserved as a sauce, raising its value and increasing yields)

Everything graftable:
• Apple
• Blueberry
• Raspberry
• Strawberry
• Plantain
• Tomato
• Carrot
• Onion
• Potato
• Spinach
• Basil

I will also plant:
• Pomegranate tree IF I want to be able to make superfood salad or graft it with an orchid for death flowers. Perfect poms make great fertilizer as well.
• All mushrooms (white plus any special mushrooms you want for special soups).
• All oversized produce (pumpkin, watermelon, aubergine, oversized mushrooms and especially lettuce).

Thanks for the responses. I just wondered as I have all sorts of cc receipes and none of them called for green beans or peas. With the gardening borked, forever it seems, there is just so much stuff my sims can plant and then take care of, so I tend to ignore the beans and peas.

Interesting posts!

I used to be a big fan of grafting, when the gardening wasn't glitched, but the problem with grafting is the amount of produce is drastically reduced, like my sim harvests one each from every grafted plant. My sims used to have huge gardens, grafted plants for the less needed produce and single plants for the most used, like onions. I had a great mod that increases the number of harvestables for each plant but I think it needs updating as it doesn't work for me anymore...phooey.

Again, thanks for all the discussions and ideas. <3

I do miss that too, Bienchen. Of course, you know the code better than I do! So many recipes require nothing that should - and I swear sage was required for a lot more that are now just any herb. Seems like they changed a lot with CoL.

The only animation I have seen is on the popcorn popper...after a sim week, a sim can grab a serving of steaming hot popcorn. :D

My sim in HoB grew an oversized lettuce, won a first place ribbon at the fair so I made it into a decoration. I did that on the lettuce and the pumpkin, awesome kitchen/dining decor. :)

I love pomegranates and usually graft to get one. I was all over grafting to get the different organics, I really enjoyed, especially after OT was released, that I could collect and graft all to each other, the berries together, the fires together, etc. One of my favorite things in the sims to do, 2-4. :)

With that being said, most of my stuff I get by (cheating). I have a great grocery mod by Sry Sims that I can't do without. >:)