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Cooking is frustrating in this game, because you can't cook all
the recipes right away.  You only have two options, soup and salad,
to start out.  You have to cook roughly 18 recipes before you unlock 
the Entree and the Dessert recipe options.  In the PS2 version of the 
game, the type of recipes you can make are: Soup, Salad, Entree, Main 
Course, and Dessert.  Entrees are equivalent to "appetizers" or "hors 
d'oeuvres" in this game.  Once you unlock the Entree and Dessert 
option, you need to make around ten more items before you finally 
unlock the Main Course choice.

A few quick tips and notes:

-- Start fishing right away.  The most common fish aren't worth a
lot of money, but they have other uses.  They work well in recipes,
and the fish based recipes tend to be worth a good amount of money.
When you are able to make Entrees, you can turn every fish that's
worth less than $150 into Sashimi and sell it for a nice profit.

--  The GC game guides for AWL note that there is a glitch with
the Ruby spice that you receive when you befriend Ruby in the Inner
Inn.  Apparently in that version of the game you are able to use only
Ruby spice in any recipe and then receive an extra Ruby spice that
you can turn around and sell for $200.  I tried doing this in every
single recipe category and it never worked.  I also tried choosing
Ruby spice once, then twice, and even three times when making a
recipe, and all I ever got was a failed recipe--no extra Ruby spice.
So unfortunately it appears that this glitch has been fixed by the
programmers...no more free extra Ruby spices when you play the PS2
version of the game.  Unless I was doing it wrong.

-- Unlike previous versions of the game, recipes are not saved when 
you use them.  So when you want to make something, you have to enter 
what you want to use every time and can't simply choose a previously 
used recipe.  I know there are more recipes that can be made using rare 
crops and second generation hybrids,  but I haven't gotten far enough 
in the game to start experimenting with those, so more recipes to come 
in the future.  When you finish your food, examine it to learn if 
there are any varieties in how to make that dish.  Some dishes allow 
you to use a variety of root vegetables or a different fruit to make 
the same food.

-- Starting in Chapter 2, if you start leaving your food in your 
kitchen fridge, your wife and child will sometimes take it themselves.  
But if you don't leave them food, they don't starve or anything.  So 
unless you don't mind having crop items going missing, I'd suggest not 
leaving stuff in the fridge.  You can always give your wife and child 
cooked food as a gift to boost their feelings toward you anyway.

And now for the recipes (and sell prices).  This is not a complete
list, it's only what I've been able to figure out with the ingredients 
that I have, or the recipes I've found on various pieces of furniture in 
the houses of other villagers.  Please note that for cooking recipes, you 
can enter your ingredients in any order:

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Soups
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Earth Soup  ......................  Potato + Carrot ($100)
Fish Stew  ........................  Potato + Carrot + Fish ($250)
Stew  ...............................  Potato + Carrot + Milk ($200)
Tomatoma Soup  .............  Tomato + Carrot ($90)
Yam Soup  ......................  Yam ($110) or bargain for ($132)

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Salads
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Dhibe Salad  ....................  Dhibe + Tomato + Berrytoma ($35)
Fruit Salad  .....................  Apple + Orange + Tomato ($40)
Light Pickles  ...................  Turnip ($25)
Marinade  ........................  Fish + Mugwort + Tomato ($35)
Melon Salad  ...................  Melon + Apple + Orange ($25)
Tomacaro Salad  ..............  Tomato + Carrot ($35) 
Tomamelo Salad  .............  Tomato + Melon ($35)

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Entrees
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Fried Mushrooms  .............  Potato + Mushroom + Butter ($80)
Fried Vegetables  ..............  Tomato + Carrot + Butter ($70)
Grape Pie  ........................  Grape + Butter + Egg ($50)
Melon Pie  ........................  Melon + Butter + Egg ($50)
Sashimi  ............................  Fish ($150)
Smoothe Veggie  ...............  Potato + Turnip + Carrot ($175)

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Main Courses
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Curry  ...............................  Ruby Spice + Carrot + Potato ($150)
Gratin  ..............................  Milk + Cheese + Butter ($200)
Meuniere Set  ...................  Fish + Butter ($250)
Mushroom Curry  .............  Ruby Spice + Potato + Mushroom ($200)
Mushroom Gratin  ............  Cheese + Mushroom + Butter ($150)
Omelet  ............................  Egg + Butter ($200)

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Desserts
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Carrot Cake  ....................  Carrot + Egg + Milk ($150)
Fruit Juice  ........................  Milk + Peach + Grape ($50)
Grilled Yam  .....................  Yam ($75)
Kashry Ice Cream  ...........  Kashry + Brown Milk + Star Milk ($150)
Love Cocktail  .................  Watermelon + Grape ($200)
Peach Tart  .......................  Peach + Egg + Butter ($125)
Pound Cake  ....................  Milk + Egg + Butter ($175)
Rich Juice  ........................  Star Milk + Banana + Peach ($75)
Strawberry Cake  .............  Strawberry + Egg + Milk ($190)
Sweet Potato  ...................  Yam + Butter + Egg ($150)
Veggie Cake  ....................  Tomato + Egg + Milk ($150)

Note: Per Debbie, any two fruits plus milk will create a dessert
recipe.