Since this mod is based on the herbal update, and the idea that food can be shared/lengthened with pot cooking, complex cooking indeed should be considered.

Consider that even COOKED foods can be used for re-cooking purposes for extra gourmet value. We always brown our meats before proceeding to stew them!

Hardboiled egg - egg
Doro Wat - raw chicken, egg (hardboiled, when implemented), poppy, sunflower seed flour

Meat stew (x10) - cooked meat, flour, pumpkin, beetroot x2, garlic, bowls (x10)

Curry paste - garlic, tumuric, sunflower seed, poppy, bowl (x1) [made in quern]
Curried meat - raw meat, curry paste <<< To preserve meats for longer
Curry - prefer to meat stew above], curry paste -- gives some kind of cure PLUS filling?(remember to return the bowl)

Fruit Must - Urn x1, orange/gooseberry/raspberry/peach/apple x20, virus medicine
Fruit Must (alt) - [same as above, but use ROTTEN fruits], PLUS poisoning medicine (remember to return the bowl)
Fruit wine (10 portions) - Fruit must [stored over time]

are you on the modding discord? I'm not really a coder, but have ideas, and maybe can do a bit of drawing (textures? Not much XP in that for 3D models tbh tho). And can test and such things.... because i have an idea for foods that can also be medicines, and one medicine recipe that would use woolskins (I have a lot of those!)...
Complementary, not alternatively to the medicines and foods we already have.

FOODS

(classy) garlic bread:
5x garlic bread = 1x garlic +1x bread dough

1x roasted apple = 1x apple on a campfire, increases happiness like music (?) for a short while, but doesn't keep as long as fresh apples

1x alpaca roast = 1x raw alpaca meat + 1x garlic + 1x ginger

FOOD+MEDICINE

2x elderberry soup = 1x elderberry + 1x apple + 2x bowl cooked in a pot = viral medicine + meal

2x chicken soup = 1x raw chicken meat + 1x garlic + 1x ginger + 2x bowl cooked in a pot = viral medicine + meal

MEDICINE
5x wound dressing = 1x woolskin + 1x marigold cut up with a knife = injury medicine


I also have an idea for... fur or leather (woolskin) room dividers or smth like that. More uses for woolskin, seen?

From Satsuki on Discord:

If we ever get ovens...flour + apples/peaches = pies (8 servings)? (Pies also last very long, like pumpkin or meat long)

Now that we have fish, consider potted meat/potted fish, and also fish/fruit breaking down/turning bad in an urn = garum/vinegar.