Monster Hunter Cooking is a revamp of the vanilla+hearthfire cooking dishes to provide temporary buffs to the player character in the way of Monster Hunter. Various ingredients buff certain components for the character.

General Stats:
Meats: Buff offensive melee skills as well as health and stamina
Vegetable: Buff magicka and magic skills
Grains: Buffs stamina and defensive skills

Each recipe buffs certain things and there is various exceptions to the above rules.
Most buffs last 12 mins and use alchemical buffs for skill increases and will be overwritten by alchemy potions.
Health, Stamina, and Magicka use food based effects and will stack with alchemical potions.