Question about cooking

[Guest]

I keep failing dishes, so I figured I would ask if someone knows how to do it right.

For example:
Pasta Salad
Required Items:
Spaghetti & Cucumber
Additional Items:
Turnip or Cabbage or Asparagus or Onion or Tomato or Carrot or Penne Pasta or Herb Spaghetti

Now, say I want to use Herb Spaghetti as the additional Item, should my recipe then be:
Spaghetti + Cucumber + Herb Spaghetti ?
Because I failed that twice and it is rather expensive to keep trying and failing just for another diamond as reward in the cooking contest.

[Muffy Princess Moon]

Make sure you select the utensil you need as well as the ingredients.

[unitlost]

They can be picky about this in HM games...
Be sure that the order you put the ingredients in is the order they say on the recipe. I don't remember for certain if it matters, but I think there was a type of tofu that I made that didn't work with the ingredients out of order but did work when they were in order. Also, when there's a utensil, be sure to put that either first or last.

[Guest]

They can be picky about this in HM games...
Be sure that the order you put the ingredients in is the order they say on the recipe. I don't remember for certain if it matters, but I think there was a type of tofu that I made that didn't work with the ingredients out of order but did work when they were in order. Also, when there's a utensil, be sure to put that either first or last.

That helped. Apparently when you put the extra items first, it will fail. Good to know. Thank you both.