Cooking Craft

What are the best foods to craft to make gold these days that are needed and popular?

It depends on your approach to cooking and ability to acquire materials, be it through farming and/or fishing.
If you have one character with max fishing (Levels and Gear):
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/5893/marine-stewpot
--> Also requires farming https://www.ffxiah.com/item/5680/agaricus/?stack=1
If you have multiple fishing characters (Some can be level 0 fishing) and are able to catch a variety of fish:
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/6469/sublime-sushi-1/?stack=1

If you want to craft food strictly from vendor materials any of the daifukus are a great option:
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/6344/grape-daifuku-1/?stack=1

If you don't mind just buying materials on the AH many of the ramens are profitable:
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/6461/miso-ramen-1/?stack=1
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/6463/salt-ramen-1/?stack=1

If you prefer to farm some various or random materials that are rarely available, sell slower, but very high margins try things such as:
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/6602/om-sand-1?stack=1

Same applies to above, but isn't technically food but is made with cooking most all of the new BST jugs are either fishing or obscure farming materials:
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/17918/windy-greens
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/17917/bubbly-broth
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/17919/tant-broth
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/21439/venomous-broth
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/21473/feculent-broth
https://www.ffxiah.com/item/21471/putrescent-broth


No idea if any of this is helpful, but this is a quickly thrown together list from memory of many of the modern sought after foods.

thanks i will look into it that helps alot