#final fantasy xiv cookbook

[kofikomori]

Certified alchemist here

[missazurerose]

Of course I'm using FFXIV cookbook lore for fanfics. What? Also it annoys a moogle so Estinien should be happy too

[canvaswolfdoll]

i'm quite fond of licensed cookbooks.

it's just a charmingly niche product to put out, and food and cooking is just an innately loving thing, that the act of compiling recipes for fans in an official capacity is cool.

also, it's funny to see how intensely corporations try to milk every conceivable cent they can get.

there's your 'we have a crafting class dedicated to cooking, so this makes sense' cookbooks. (skybuilder stew is very, very good)

the 'yeah, there's sufficient food talk to justify recipes' cookbooks

the 'is food really what people take away from this franchise?' cookbooks

and the 'this makes total sense, but why publish it in 2023!?' cookbooks.

anyways, i'm always happy to hear about what (officially licensed!) cookbooks are out there. i'm holding out hope for story of seasons and/or rune factory cookbooks someday.

[thefandomentals]

THE ULTIMATE FINAL FANTASY XIV COOKBOOK: The Culinarian’s Journey from Shadow to Shore, the second official cookbook for the popular MMO, releases this October.

[voidsentprinces]

Look I know you're all pretty much drowning up to your tits in my polls HOWEVER! I can't stop coming up with ideas for them...SOOOooOooooOoo

Final Fantasy XIV (Halo: 3, Manchester United: 1) has such a variety of foods on display. And we usually only mention them when Yoshi P is making--interesting looking cookies or selling a cookbook. But, since Culinarian IS a practice and such a practice that it has an entire guild dedicated to it. It means it has some level of impact ingame. Therefore, in theory, your character would probably dine on these ingame items. So, from the options delivered from above, what would be your characters' favorite from the selection? (Variety and complexity of the dish is wholly derived from a mandate of the Devs' whims apparently)

[misscammiedawn]

What is your favorite piece of media right now? Tell me about it!

Hmm!

Wish we had a more fun or interesting answer to this but we're in a lil' bit of a slump atm--

Spent the first few months of the year obsessively playing Final Fantasy XIV after a group of friends invited us to play with them-- still plugging along but kind of burned out atm and trying to not ignore the people in our life by being addicted to an MMO

Sleepyhead and I do weekly binge watches of shows and just went through all of Severance which is a decent show that is frustrating because sometimes it feels plot points and characters exist to facilitate the aura of mystery rather than anything in the show itself-- but we like it all the same

Watching Andor too but we have a significant grudge against Star War due to running a movie theatre when the sequel trilogy came out and not really caring too much about it as a cultural touchstone

Filmwise REALLY wanna see Sinners because Coogler can do no wrong in our eyes-- loved him since we saw Fruitvale Station during a work trip in 2013

Got so many films we need to catch up on--

But really the answer is "none at the moment"

Past few years we had our phases-- our Immortal Hulk phase, our TV Glow phase, our EEAAO phase, House of Leaves phase, Mr. Robot phase, Left at London phase, Narcissist Cookbook phase-- heck we just got off of binge listening to Hospice and realizing how much our marriage was kind of not okay through art

But something or other about the past few months (wonder what it could be???) has made it so that our regular single point of focused obsession on a single piece of media just kind of-- stopped?

Only thing we can do is wait for it to come back <3

-

BUT NOT TO BE A BUMMER!

Right now we are watching Daja play Blue Prince

Blue Prince is a puzzle game that gives you a 9x5 grid and asks you to build rooms to get from the Entrance Hall (bottom middle) to the Antechamber (top middle)

Every room can have items (such as the sledgehammer, shovel and lockpick in that screenshot) that help you progress as you have a certain number of steps, coins, gems and keys to get from one side of the house to the other

BUT

On top of that there are little puzzles in every room-- every room has 2 images in it for instance and you need to find out what those pictures mean to give you a clue to open some safes that appear in certain rooms and you need to work out what rooms contain to solve another puzzle elsewhere and you need to navigate a series of clues that lead to other clues that lead to additional things to solve

It starts as a simple "find room 46" which becomes "unlock the antechamber" which leads to "find access to the hidden room" which leads to---

well

Part of the fun is discovering what it all leads to

As far as Daja makes me aware the game has been out for 3 weeks and no one has definitively solved it

Things get super abstract by the end of things and though one can get to credits within 12 hours (less than 45 minutes for a speedrun) it just keeps stretching

The game is VERY much inspired by House of Leaves (borrowing some of its color coding even) and is the nearest any piece of media has come to emulating the sheer level of obsession that the book gives by presenting you with an open ended piece of fiction that constantly gives you a reason to leave and just forces a certain obsessive mindset to overstay their welcome picking apart the seams of both the narrative and gameplay

With House of Leaves it's researching the footnotes, translating Pelafina's letters and trying to force the layers of narrative to communicate in some kind of "true" cohesion where lies and abstraction are removed (the solution being of course that none of it is true because it's a work of fiction - though for those who are still enjoying the thrill then the fact that the author's sister Poe has been written into the Control/Alan Wake universe as of the latest Alan Wake II DLC can lead to spilling over into crossover territory further blurring lines of reality and fiction and oh no I've gone crosseyed) Blue Prince just leaves a person trying to constantly solve an extra puzzle and find out if there really is a True Ending to the game

After all

There's an item slot on the inventory which has never been filled

[gposers]

HOLIDAY COOKING WITH GPOSERS!

There’s so much to be thankful for this time of year, so gather your loved ones to share in these scrumptious Crab Croquettes from The Ultimate Final Fantasy XIV Cookbook, recreated by Chef @leejaffxiv!

[holyguardian]

tag nine people you'd like to know better

I. favourite colours: This answer changes all the time for me. Currently my favourite colour is green, followed very closely by white and blue.

II. favourite flavours: Intense! If the recipe asks for 1 garlic clove no it didn't it wants the whole damn garlic — I love curry dishes especially, anything with strong flavour has my whole heart (I think that comes from a childhood of the saddest bland foods imaginable haha).

III. favourite genres: High fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery. I think that sums up my general interests.

IV. favourite music: If it reminds me of my blorbos I'll listen to it. I have playlists on my phone so I can listen to character-inspired bops on the go. Ashnikko, AURORA, Cloudy June, Elle King and Stela Cole get honourable mentions. I also love soundtrack music. Final Fantasy XIV soundtracks by Masayoshi Soken are top rated, and I know I was once pretty obsessed with Ramin Djawadi's work on Game of Thrones.

V. favourite movies: The Lion King and The Mummy for nostalgic reasons. James Cameron's Avatar franchise for showing me what cinema could be. My favourite of all time is a tough one to choose, probably Princess Mononoke.

VI. favourite series: Beef, Brooklyn 99, Community, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Game of Thrones, Midnight Mass, Samurai Champloo, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Glory, The Haunting of Hill House / Bly Manor, The Last of Us, The Witcher.

VII. last song: ENDWALKER: FINAL FANTASY XIV Original Soundtrack — Flow.

VIII. last series: The Fall of the House of Usher. Carla Gugino is absolutely my celebrity crush.

IX. last movie: It has been so long since I last watched a movie, I think it was Barbie back in August of 2023. It was okay at best, wouldn't want to spend the money on a ticket if I knew what I was walking into. Disappointed because I thought it was going to be a silly little time from the trailers, it looked like something that would be fun and quirky with more humour in the plot (especially since it seemed marketed as something kids would love to come watch too) but its attempts at existentialism and feminist commentary fell flat for me.

X. currently reading: Nothing currently, unless RecipeTin Eats cookbook counts. Dinner by Nagi Maehashi has been an absolute winner for me.

XI. currently watching: At the moment I'm only really watching things on Youtube, specifically Charlotte Dobre and Gab Smolders.

XII. currently working on: The bigger and more meaningful things are weight loss and keeping up with a skincare routine. Next on my list is a new makeup routine but foundation is far too expensive for me to replace right now. I'm also finishing off abandoned videogames, I blasted through Breath of the Wild (and desperately want to chew on Tears of the Kingdom now) and I have Resident Evil 4 sitting there and taunting me.

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[storm-of-doma]

Psst

[triumphantbass]

New FFXIV cookbook from my friend Pixelated Provisions! Very excited for this one this September!

[cartograffiti]

March '24 reading diary

This month I started out with a nasty case of influenza, which made for a lot of rereading very gentle things I didn't have to think about much. The 8 new to me books I read were:

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal. Oh, I did not like this! I was very neutral on it right up until there was a reveal that put an odd cast on the relationship I had found most convincing, and all the other relationship dynamics ranged from blah to off-putting. Not for me.

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes. Lovely audiobook that I listened to when I couldn't sleep, read by Elwes and many of the quoted cast and crew. Fun stories, nothing very deep or heavy. Comforting.

The Ultimate Final Fantasy XIV Cookbook, Victoria Rosenthal. I've never Finaled a Fantasy in my life, but I saw a photo from this book and wanted to read the recipe. Interesting food, nicely laid out! I don't always even record cookbooks I simply flip through, so this is high praise!

Witch Hat Atelier, vols. 6 & 7, Shirahama Kamome: Aaaah! AAAh! Things are heating up! I love, love these kids, and the art and adventure remain tremendously engaging <3

Fry Bread: A Native American Story by Keven Noble Maillard, a picture book that I'd seen praised and wanted to look at before I recommended it to a friend's children. Lovely illustrations, a lot of thought put into the diversity of Native American people and customs even focused on this one dish, with great text both in the story and the back matter.

He Bears the Cape of Stars and She Wears the Midnight Crown: Two queer short story anthologies by a small press. Friends of mine were included in each, and of course I loved theirs. Like all mixed author anthologies, these are a mix of ones I liked and ones I bounced off of, and they're worth taking a look at!

[oraclememehacker]

Futaba gets a book for her birthday! But not just any regular book. It was all hand written! It was a cookbook filled with recipes for all sorts of food each with a difficulty rating from 1 star to 10 stars! Gamifying stuff might help Futaba really enjoy conquering it all. With trying to be more social, a great meal can do wonders! It is from a very good friend of her's that loves to cook~

( @orphemiss )

"Oh! It's like those books of recipes from various video games. I always wanted to get the Final Fantasy XIV one." As she was flipping through the pages just to get a good sense of what it was all about, she saw the ratings and the way it was trying to gamify cooking. It immediately made her intrigued and she was going to show this to Sojiro to see if they couldn't try making some of these recipes together one night.

[ardentmystacina]

#we were actually just discussing this in the fc discord about a week or so ago#and we were also at the consensus 'this is the wol's personal cookbook'#and that means they're gonna use what THEY know is the best of the best#also i am like ten thousand percent convinced#that in some of the recipes the wol is trolling whoever is reading their recipe book too#which is why the pizza recipe has peppermint in it#(it's either that or your wol just has a really fucking weird palette)#(which lbr is wholly possible)#< prev tags#this made me laugh so much because honestly this is true#like level 100 is supposed to be like...high level avant garde cooking#this is not diners drive ins and dives#this is not 'annoying Scott Conant because he hates red onion'#this is like...whatever Amaury Guichon is doing with chocolate but with other cuisine#your level 100 CUL is done fucking about with normal ingredients#this is ART#which is why you see shit like 'essence of caviar foam' and all sorts of WEIRD shit in high end restaurants#does it taste good?#probably#to the chef#I think you stop getting help from your trainers at like level 70 or so#that's when the class quests end#this is just the WoL going 'I know more than you' walking into any kitchen in the world#a la Ron Swanson#final fantasy xiv#culinarian

i finally hit level 100 cooking in ffxiv and these recipes are getting a little silly

oh i need to make some vegetable soup let me just gather uhh

1 carrot from the moon

2 cloves of garlic from an alternate dimension

1 potato from the past

1 onion from the furthest point in the universe

1 head of broccoli from fucking HEAVEN

salt

and youre done 👍 enjoy the minor damage buffs

[cherrypikkins]

I adapted the coffee biscuit recipe from the FFXIV cookbook to make chewy, melt in your mouth coffee chocolate chip cookies! May share later :)

[sabibunny]

Baking the Coffee Biscuits from Final Fantasy XIV 🍪

These coffee biscuits were so fun and easy to make! Please enjoy this cute baking video I created. ☺️

I hope to create more content like this in the near future – for now I am prioritising my music projects, but I look forward to creating foodie content again when I can! 💗

[voidsentprinces]

Final Fantasy XIV (God of War: 2, Liverpool Reds: 2) has such a variety of foods on display. And we usually only mention them when Yoshi P is making--interesting looking cookies or selling a cookbook. But, since Culinarian IS a practice and such a practice that it has an entire guild dedicated to it. It means it has some level of impact ingame. Therefore, in theory, your character would probably dine on these ingame items. So, from the options delivered from above, what would be your characters' favorite from the selection? (Variety and complexity of the dish is wholly derived from a mandate of the Devs' whims apparently)