Cooking and Northrend Meat Drops

Throughout my time in beta, I’ve primarily leveled and secondarily worked on my professions. I’ve managed, farming for no more than a tenth of my time in game, to get my jewelcrafting up to about 410, my mining maxed, and my first aid high enough to make the top end bandage. However, in all that time I’ve not been able to collect enough meat to get my cooking higher than 385 or so. Part of the reason is the lack of good skillup recipes, which I think is either a bug or oversight. Where my character’s skill is at, I can make a great number of green skill items, a single yellow skill item that takes about 7 times the materials as any of the greens, and no oranges. The problem of skilling up is compounded by the fact that my yellow recipe, Great Feast, requires three types of meat that are each about a 5% drop off of different types of animals. Now, I’m fairly sure that there will be more mid-level recipes, either which have not been implemented yet, or which I have not found, but is it possible that high level cooks could get a passive ability from their