just like the stew that's simmering over half the cookpots in Skyrim (beef vegetable I think), same red-orange color and even comes in a black metal bowl/pot, simmering. I can't help but think how much it will replenish both my health AND stamina, LOL.

I'm a Khajiit sneaky thief who's also good at archery but likes to cut throats when possible, and I've made a good portion of my Skyrim fortune picking pockets and midnight rambling the various shops, homes, and castles of Skyrim. JUST NOW starting to dabble in alchemy, and it's fun. Trying to max out enchanting, not quite there yet. How about you?

I played a Wood Elf sneaky up to about level 65 before dumping him and starting over with basically the same character. I realized that I focused on some things too late in the game with that character, and wanted to do it differently with a new one. I pushed enchant, alchemy and smithing to 100 as fast as I could, and made myself some really powerful alchemy and smithing gear, and enchanting and smithing potions.

Now, I'm at level 52, and am slowly working my way through quests, taking the time to notice things that I missed the first time around. I did hardly any alchemy with the first character, but buy and harvest everything I can find now, storing it in my Riften residence, right next to the alchemy table. Money is pretty much unlimited now, because I can craft potions with value over 5000 each. I make invisibility potions that last for almost 2 minutes which makes it pretty easy to get out of just about any trouble. I make paralysis poison that lasts for 27 seconds. I don't really buy anything anymore, except raw materials, or items that i need for disenchant.

I've made some powerful equipment for archery, one-hand and sneak. My daedric dagger does 127 damage (x15 on backstab), my daedriic sword does 325 (x6 on sneak attacks, and will get better as my one-hand goes from 50 to 100) and my ebony bows do 766 (x3 on sneak attacks. I still need to make a daedric bow). I'm almost game-break too powerful, but I've got the freedom now to really explore and appreciate the Skyrim world, without having to worry that a pack of cave bears will jump out of nowhere and tear me to bits.

Happy exploring

Sid