Chapter 7 complete.
I have every maxed out Partner
Every Star Piece
Every badge that isn't in the Pit or Chapter 8
All current Help Center troubles finished
God I don't wanna do the recipies.
It’s definitely long, but thank god for the fast travel pipes. Making it so much easier.
The good news is the side quests that give you items from recipes count towards the cookbook. So you don’t have to make those ones.
Also a tip I think would be helpful from when I did it, Pick up 4 kee mangos, 3 coconuts, 3 golden leafs, 3 horsetails and that should cover all the recipes that require special ingredients.
Oh also buy 3 of the pastas from poshley heights. And stay at the inn to get a free recipe for your log.
Stock up on all of those and you’ll just need to get the regular items, which thankfully the fast travel pipes can take you close enough to each shop.
Other useful items I recommend stocking up on before you begin:
-3 hot sauces
-4 point swaps
-2 fire flowers
-5 turtley leaves.
Those are sort of rarer ingredients for a few recipes.
Don’t forget you can just leave an area and come back to refresh the drops. So for example leave creepy steeple and go to the path to it, then come back and the golden leaf will be back.