Watch queen of sauce every sunday through year 2, marking calendar for new recipes, and catch wednesday reruns for anything missed. Most efficient path starts with kitchen upgrade, which needs 10k gold and wood, giving you automatic fried egg recipe to start. Focus friendship with robin and emily first, since their recipes at 7 hearts are quite valuable, then expand to other villagers who mail recipes at specific heart levels.

Level combat and fishing skills while working through the early game, since recipes like roots platter and seafoam pudding unlock naturally this way. Check stardrop saloon regularly, grab triple shot espresso recipe when you can afford it. Once you reach ginger island, befriend leo for mango sticky rice, and check the resort shop, dwarf in volcano, and island trader for unique recipes. Maybe interesting: enable advanced crafting info in settings to track what you've already made.

For fastest collection, save 50k gold and 100 golden walnuts for the cookbook from the bookseller, unlocks everything from tv show instantly. Remember grayed-out recipes in cooking menu are learned but not crafted yet, good way to track progress.