All Recipes & Cooking Guide - Harvest Moon: Innocent Life Walkthrough

Unlike most Harvest Moon games...
In Harvest Moon: Innocent Life (IL), you don’t need many ingredients and find hidden recipes to cook food or make drinks!

Instead, all recipes are learned by watching the Cooking Life channel once a week on your TV. Dorothy Grimley will teach you directly from the show in your room.

Some dishes do have extra requirements, but here’s the twist: the result of your cooking is random! Don’t worry, though, your dishes will improve as you keep practicing.

If you want to improve your cooking skills, you need to make lots of food every week. At least 3-5 times for each type of dish to get food that you have never made before.

How to Cook

• Go to the kitchen and press the Triangle Button on the utensils.
• Choose the type of dish you want to make.
• Most of the time, you don't need ingredients, just select and cook!

After cooking, your character eats the meal immediately at the dining table.

The more often you watch and learn to cook from different episodes of the Cooking Life channel, the more food options you can make as well. So, don't miss watching it every week!

Recipes You Learn from Cooking Life Broadcast

The following is a complete list of recipes that you will learn from all Cooking Life episodes, along with the requirements to be able to make them:

Episode 1 (Spring 1-7): Drinks

1. Tea

Yucky Tea
Apple Tea
Regular Tea
Milk Tea

2. Coffee

Icky Coffee
Coffee
Cafe Au Late
Vienna Coffee

3. Herbal Tea

Nasty Herb Tea
Chamomile Herb Tea
Lavender Tea
Mint Tea

Episode 2 (Spring 8-14): Cutting

1. Salad

Gross Salad
Italian Salad
Fresh Salad (You have to sell Mayonnaise to make this dish)
Cabbage Salad
Tomato Salad

2. Fruit Dessert

Miserable Fruit
Fruit Dessert
Fruit with Yogurt Sauce
Fresh Papaya (You have to harvest Papaya to make this dish)
Tropical Cocktail (You can make it in Summer)

Episode 3 (Spring 15-21): Cutting Advanced

1. Shusi

You must catch at least one fish to make this dish.

Shusi Plate
Shushi Master Plate

2. Sandwich

Normal Sandwich
Yummy Sandwich
BLT Sandwich
Fruit Sandwich

Episode 4 (Spring 22-28): Boiling

1. Stew

Instant Stew
Beef Stew
Chunky Beef Stew
Beef Stew with Wine

2. Curie and Rice

Instant Curie
Curie Rice (Mild)
Curie Rice (Med)
Curie Rice (Spicy)

Episode 5 (Spring 29-35): Cutting Drinks

1. Vegetable Juice

Leftover Green Veggie Juice
Leftover Red Veggie Juice
Mixed Vegetable Juice
Red Vegetable Juice
Green Vegetable Juice
Tomato Juice (You can make this in the Summer)

2. Fruit Juice

Fresh Juice
Yogurt Smoothie
Soy Milk Mix
Kale Juice (You have to grow Kale in Winter to make this dish)

Episode 6 (Summer 1-7): Boiling Advanced

1. Boiled Fish

You must catch at least one fish to make this dish.

Fishy Boiled Fish
Boiled Fish
Tasty Boiled Fish
Boiled flounder

2. Boiled Vegetables

Meat and Potatoes
Instant Meat and Potatoes
Boiled Chicken and Taro
Boiled Vegetables

3. Pot-au-feu

Instant Pot-au-feu
Pot-au-feu
Chicken Pot-au-feu
Cabbage Roll Pot-au-feu

4. Spaghetti

Over Cooked Spaghetti
Instant Meat Sauce
Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
Garlic Spaghetti
Spaghetti Carbonara
Spaghetti with Eggplant (You have to plant and sell eggplant in Autumn)

Episode 7 (Summer 8-14): Grilling

1. Omelet

Clumsy Omelet
Omelet
Cheese Omelet
Potato and Bacon Omelet
Fluffy Plain Omelet

2. Salisbury Steak

Beginner's Salisbury Steak
Burn Salisbury Steak
Salisbury Steak
Healthy Salisbury Steak
Mushroom Salisbury Steak (You have to harvest a different kind of mushrooms)

Episode 8 (Summer 15-21): Grilling Advanced

1. Grilled Fish

You have to catch a fish to make this dish.

Burn Fish
Grilled Fish
Perfect Grilled Fish
Perfectly Grilled Fish
Salt Grilled Mackerel

2. Steak

Tasteless Overcooked Steak
Steak
Plain Grilled Steak
Garlic Steak

Episode 9 (Summer 22-28): Oven-Baked Dishes

1. Roasted Beef

Plain Grilled Beef
Roast Beef
Roast Beef with Herbs
Roast Beef with Teriyaki

2. Macaroni Cheese

Instant Mac and Cheese
Lumpy Mac and Cheese
Pacon Mac and Cheese
Broccoli Mac and Cheese
Shrimp Mac and Cheese

3. Pizza

Frozen Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Four Cheese Pizza

Episode 10 (Summer 29-35): Oven-Bake Treats

1. Bread

Instant Bread
Fresh Baked Bread
Fresh Baked Raisin Bread
Walnut and Almond Bread

2. Cake

Mediocre Cake
Shortcake Fruit Tart
Chocolate Special
Flower Special

📝 Note: You can only be able to make chocolate and flower specials after the Christmas party in Winter 24.

After all 10 episodes, the Cooking Life show restarts from Episode 1.
Good news: you don’t need to rewatch–recipes stay unlocked once you’ve learned them!

That’s the complete guide to cooking in Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon. Thanks for reading, and happy cooking!

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