I'm at a middle level in the cooking and blending skills right now. I've used every available vegetable for some recipes at one time or another. Different kitchen tools have recipes using different vegetable types. Right now, for my favorite recipes I'm only using about half of the vegetable types. I'm finding that in my home garden, I'm growing several plots of some crops (I'm always running out of tomatoes), and only one of others (zucchini always seem to spawn more than necessary, just like RL). One of the reasons I'm staying in a 15K cottage, is because that's about the right size garden for me; I don't need the huge garden of a 50K house for most of what I need.