#good gumbo

[cryptidnextdoor]

will, awake for 36 hours and coming out of a caffeine bender: this gumbo is too thin hannibal wtf is this shit and you call yourself a chef

hannibal, a grown ass serial killer: but i made it from that coworker you hate

[deathbypufferfish]

It's finally done cooking, my sims gameplay ideas list! After scouring all types of sites, generators, lists, and my brain for ingredients, I've come up with a list stew that hopefully will spark some inspiration for your sims gameplays!

This non exhaustive list consists of ideas that are applicable to sims gameplay/things to do in-game. AKA things that can be played out in the sims or half pretended. If you're looking for less-gameplay story ideas, I recommend my story/conflict idea list. Most of the conflict and love ideas are on that list. Please feel free to send asks to add to the gumbo! Just note in your ask that it's for the gumbo and keep it applicable/feasible for gameplay. (To keep the post from getting too long I'll make a contributor list into a compressed image later on for those who send off-anon.)

If you are looking for more complex, in-game story ideas check out the Story Soup list here!

🍲 Gumbo below the cut! ⬇

Single Sim Gameplay:

Learn an instrument

Learn a new skill

Start a seashell collection (Island Living)

Have a sim get a bad haircut

Enroll an Adult/Elder sim in university

Use a skill you don’t usually play with

Become a mountain climber

Build a Servo

Take care of local strays

Use more likes/dislikes

Conflict:

Drop out of or fail university

Drop out or fail out of highschool

Talk badly about another sim in your house to other sims

Sim loses their job

Failed retail business

Family:

Foster a child

Parties for children

Have a baby shower

Have a slumber party

A grandparent/other family member moves in with your main household

Have a specific family holiday tradition besides the in-game ones

Family bike rides

Game night

Parent trains child in their sport

Family hikes at Granite Falls

Family volunteering

Bake sale (entrepreneur table)

Have a family photoshoot

Have teens study at the library

Have your teen go through a bad fashion phase

Host an exchange student

Make school picture day photos (Teen poses, children poses)

Have an arts & crafts day

Go fishing as a family

Have a specific weekly meal (spaghetti night, a fancy meal)

Make ice cream together (Cool Kitchen Stuff)

Wear matching pajamas for holidays

Have a bake off

Play with voidcritters (Kids Room Stuff)

Granola family (camping, hiking, low tech, simple living)

Play in a multi-generational household

Adopt

Family reunion

Unexpected baby

Have siblings share a room

Social/Activities:

Sports party night (e.g. watching the superbowl, world cup, etc)

Start a book club (with clubs)

Have a themed kids birthday party (Here’s a helpful website for ideas)

Have a potluck (buffet tables)

Garden party

Neighborhood party

Neighborhood holiday decorating contest

Host a haunted house in your home

Picnic

Barbeque party

Go to the arcade

Go regularly to restaurants (Dine Out Reloaded Mod to make restaurants tolerable)

Have an out of control party (maybe a teen party)

Go camping

Go to an Ice skating rink/roller skating rink

Spa day (at home or at a spa)

Make an army of snowpals

Movie night

Stargazing night/camp out in the backyard

Weekly bowling night

Museum trip

Karaoke night at home

Campfire night

Pool day

Weekly meetups with friends at a cafe

Try on wedding dresses with a bridal party

Have someone stay over (Growing Together)

Love:

Hook up with a service sim

Have a vacation romance

Have a “meet the parents” moment

Have an affair

Divorce

Marital fight

Rejected proposal

Throuple/Open Relationship (Open Love Life Mod)

Left at the altar

Use fear of commitment, jealous, or unflirty trait

Create a rocky marriage

Challenges:

Spend too much money on a vacation

Play with lot challenges

Use simple living (only cook with ingredients and do grocery orders)

Don’t clean up after sims (don’t drag plates, laundry, trash)

Use the Reduce and Recyle lot challenge for realism

Use the Filthy lot challenge to make cleaning harder

Lose a large sum of money

Randomize your sims’ traits as they age up

Household:

Have puppies and kittens

A serious house fire (either with cheating or with fireworks. There is also a mod for more intense fires here

Spring cleaning

Garage sale

Visit houses before you move into them

Create a storage room/attic (Eco Living boxes, Discover University chest, toy chest, treasure chest etc) Use this for old heir’s items if you are playing a legacy

Start a garden (herb, vegetables)

Renovate the house

Watch what your pets are doing

Adopt a stray animal

Teach your pets tricks

Upgrade objects

Have a home bar/rec room

Go on a vacation

Play with roommates (additionally have them be odd, difficult, or a romance option)

Have an always messy home

Hire a live-in butler

Hire a regular maid

Location:

Play in a sustainable community on one of the islands/isolated areas. (community farm, community space, homes)

Play in a tiny home (Tiny Living)

Play in a haunted house residential (Paranormal Stuff)

Become an Archaeologist. Live in Sulani and regularly visit Selvadorado for work

Career/Business:

Bookstore

Art gallery: sell your paintings or buy them off Plopsy/Buy Mode

Bakery

Play a career you don’t usually play

Winter sports store in Mt. Komorebi

Own a farmstand for your produce (Eco Lifestyle entrepreneur table) You can even build a small building for it on your property!

Pet supplies store 

Plant store

Tourist gift shop

Mattress/Bed   store

Florist shop (Flower Arranging Skill)

Juicery (Juice Fizzing Skill)

Yoga studio (host classes at a retail business or at a home studio)

Start a Bed and Breakfast/AirBnB with the roommate system

Become a celebrity in a path besides Actor/Actress (Author, Chef, Video Creator, Skier, etc.)

Food truck (Restaurant)

Fish stall (Entrepreneur table)

Make a living on Plopsy

Wool store (Cottage Living)

Natural health store (Herbalism)

Resources Used

ADAM DRIVER GIF DISCLAIMER: YES I KNOW IT'S A STEW

[miles-crow]

Made a quick Gumbo sketch the other week. I'm still rusty with people Ig

[jt1674]

[iheartkremy]

Kremy trying (and failing) to teach gricko how to cook a proper meal

This one made me chuckle so it gets a doodle and a oneshot

Kremy & Gricko - It’s Just Gumbo (OUAW Oneshot)

story below :) ⬇️

“Alright Gricko. This is just Gumbo,” Kremy had ditched his overcoat and bowtie for a simple apron. He rolled his sleeves up to his elbow, and he stepped up beside Gricko. “Nice and simple, alright? No way you can screw this up.”

Gricko hummed, one hand up to his chin in a pondering pose as he scanned the equipment and ingredients in front of him. Kremy noticed Gricko wasn’t wearing the apron he’d handed to him.

“Trust me Kremy, I can handle this no problem!” He crossed his arms and leaned sideways with a smug look on his face. Kremy nodded grimly as he noticed that the apron was flung next to his neatly folded clothes at the entrance to the kitchen.

“I already prepared the roux for ya.” He brought over the large pot, which had a dark viscous liquid resting at the bottom. Kremy figured that making Gricko wait half an hour just for the base was going to lead him to just walking out of the kitchen. He actually wanted to try and get him to understand the basics.

Gricko hopped up onto the counter to get a good look at it. “Is it supposed to be that dark? It looks a little… burnt.” Kremy’s eye twitched, and he firmly planted the lid on the pot, causing the goblin to flinch. “Hey! You almost got my nose!”

Kremy was already starting to see why Frost had given up on trying to teach Gricko to cook. This was a dish he’d been making since he was a kid, he knew what he was doing.

“All I need you to do right now is to cut and cook the sausage. Can ya do that for me?” He placed a hand on his shoulder. Gricko nodded, and Kremy placed two large sausages in his hands. He hopped over to the other side of the counter and watched as he began to look at the knives in the knife block. He sighed and left him to it as he turned his attention to the vegetables in front of him.

Cooking was always a nice way for Kremy to get his attention off of the things on his mind. The rhythm he got into while chopping was a nice and steady sound. He bobbed his head a bit with each cut. When he arrived at the celery, he spun the knife around between his fingers and easily sliced the stick into small pieces. He dusted off his hands as he put all the fresh veggies into a small bowl to dump into the roux once Gricko finished with the sausage.

That thought reminded him that he was not alone in the kitchen today. He spun around to see Gricko looking over the pan. All seemed normal, until his eyes trailed over to where he’d cut the sausage. He saw a bread knife covered in bits of shredded meat and juice, and saw that it was also all over the counter as well. There didn’t appear to be any kind of cutting board anywhere.

Gricko was grinning as he picked up the pan and made a scooping motion as he attempted to flip all the sausage pieces like a pancake. Kremy cried out and raced over to the stove where the he could practically hear the sausages weeping as he saw the state they were in.

Some slices were paper thin, where others were as thick as a marshmallow. All of them looked as though they’d been hacked at violently, rather than cleanly cut. Some where black and burnt, and some where still bright pink. Kremy reeled back, and needed a moment to process and breathe.

“Kremy?” Gricko said, and with his back turned, Kremy could do nothing but give him a weak thumbs up. Gricko must’ve taken this as a sign to put the sausage in the pot, because he could hear the sound of the meat slapping against the roux at the bottom of the pot.

Kremy twisted back around, but it Gricko had already gotten ahold of his vegetables and put them in as well. Gricko smiled blankly at him with his hands on his hips.

“Alright, what now?”

He wanted to shake the goblin, and tell him to never step foot in a kitchen again. Instead, he straightened himself out, and found a wooden spoon in the drawer. He passed it to Gricko and he began to stir.

Looking at the huge pile of ingredients they had yet to add, Kremy was trying to find some way to save this gumbo. He knew that doing the rest of the recipe on his own would inevitably lead to Gricko complaining that he didn’t get to do anything (though that would be for the best.) so he opted to just let everyone know ahead of time that they shouldn’t eat it.

But his mind wandered to Torbek. He’s eaten rocks and worse before with no issue, so this would be fine for him, right?

—————

Three raps on Torbek’s door, and a sigh from the lizardfolk as Torbek opened the door.

“Ohhh! It’s Mr. Kremy and Gricko! Torbek is soooo happy that his friends came to visit him.” The bugbear was obviously happy despite the late hour. Gricko was holding the large pot with a grin and Kremy motioned for Torbek to take it. He did and set it on the floor, lifting the pot lid. Kremy’s shoulders tensed as he stared at the monstrosity he was trying to pass off as food.

Despite it having been off the burner for about half an hour, thick bubbles were still rising in the surface. Shreds of meat, some raw and some burnt floating around. There was a thick layer of some mysterious liquid that was obviously sitting above the roux, and upon seeing a dead fly in the mix, he reached for the pot. This was too disgusting to serve even to Torbek.

Torbek completely missed Kremy’s action and put the lid back on, holding it in his arms. “Ohhh, it looks delicious! Thaaank you!” Gricko puffed out his chest, and Kremy wanted to hold his hat over his heart in shame.

“It was all Gricko.” Was all he could muster as Torbek closed the door.

[pcktknife]

so full of crab 🦀

[shubbzebubs]

The gator didn't just speak- it started singing

The full ref ⬇️

[jacksoldsideblog]

do yall have favorite soups?

[radiofreederry]

Guess who ate ALL her food while I was at work!

[poohbea]

quick life update. so i got the job!! i start next week. it's gonna be another customer service type of position but i'm really just happy to be a part of the company. it's a nice starting point for a first full-time position. ugh i'm so excited and yet so nervous, eeee wish me luck y'all <3

[circusclownproductions]

Jambalaya tonight queen?

[jasper-dixon]

just call me the gumbo bimbo because i'm slutty for that roux

[pauvretibete]

Is it gumbo season yet?

Anything lower than 85° out is fall in the south 🤣🧡🥘

[from-mars-to-venus]

telling my literary agent my project is like “Studio Ghibli meets the Legend of Zelda” before they open their mouth and a torrent of a million tiny knives shoot out at me, perforating my body endlessly and turning me into oozing Swiss cheese

[wh0re-in-the0ry]

I finally tried the rap snacks noodles after forgetting about them for a few weeks. I’m sure that rap snacks have very good chips but this ain’t it. It smells like the cup it comes in and the broth is somehow very bland but also taste like the smell of a ymca pool? I like the texture of the noodle but that’s all it has going for it. I hate to waste food but I physically can’t finish this.

[renardsruses]

All I can think abt is a Cajun Wolfwood playfully insulting Vash in Cajun French and both of them barely understanding each other bc Cajun French is different from regular French and it just escalates til they give up yeah I’m having normal thoughts