This post asks a lot of questions, and veers into farming/general ability to gather or otherwise obtain in the wild. It doesn't offer recipes. I'm still thinking of those. My sincere apologies if this is in the wrong thread, and really should go somewhere else.
I agree with Irilia, whose name I just realized I don't know how to spell.
Please don't make morale hits with eating the same foods over and over. While it makes sense in RL, food is already prohibitively expensive for brand new chars. This is just one more piece of minutia I find unnecessary.
I really love Ephemeralis's post about dried meat, Pemmican, etc. I love a lot of the recipe ideas a lot of you have posted (i'm on page three, so catching up still.)
i'd love cheese molds as a craftable item, though you'd have to use a wax mold of a cheese wheel, or a full cheese wheel, to make the mold.
It'd be wonderful if we could make baking sheets (metalworking, likely?). Mixing bowls could be wood or pottery, maybe metal.
Something to whisk butter, milk, eggs, if needed for certain dishes.
Cookie sheet, cooling rack.
I see we have ladles in the list of metalcast items (that we can make molds of with pottery), but I don't see ladles in metalworking or anywhere else. No way to make a ladle, no way to make a mold, since you have to target what type of mold you want with an item in your hand or on the ground.
Cookie cutters, maybe.
Cooking knives that we can actually make, not just buy in the store, if someone really wants a custom one for whatever reason.
Baking dish for cakes and such (deep with sides, not a flat pan, though that, too.)
Cheese grater.
Commands so we can dice, chop, cube, etc. Not an exhaustive list, just a few words that would make that particular cut. I like the idea of making meat strips or cubes.
Sugar and chocolate would be nice, but I don't know, realistically, where there'd come from, since I think both are more of a tropically-grown product (not sure about sugar.) It's likely that honey will have to be the staple sweetener.
Seafood sauces, making our own meat stocks (chicken, beef, maybe other stocks just based on the type of meat used, and the game inserts that name into the stock item, or, as on Clok, no name given, just "some stock.")
I'm not sure where to post this--it may need to be under farming.
I don't know how commong sheep cheese and milk are, but I know they exist--I've tasted sheep cheese. It could be a nice, different addition.
Could xicamatls be more prominent in game? They're very nutritious, and make a good staple travel food, but right now you only get two or three per room. It's a little discouraging.
Related to farming, there are number of fruits and vegetables Im curious about whether we'll have in game, but unsure if I should post about in a more appropriate thread. It'd be nice to be able to plant them. Perhaps every three months, the selection of seeds changes, based on time of year and "normal" temperatures during that time.
Some random crop or other forageable ideas:
potato, onion, asparagus, celery, tomato, xicamatl, green beans (not sure the name of the plant), beans (legumes) of varying types.
grapes, strawberries, watermelons. Other fruits I'm thinking of are grown on trees... (peach, plum, cherry, not sure about nectarine.) Other fruits I'm thinking of aren't appropriate for the type of land/climate we're in (tropical fruits).
Would it be possible to cook more than one piece of meat at a time? Same with crab legs, etc.
Could shrimp be something we could get, somehow, or clams?
Firerose, who thinks orchards would be an awesome idea.