Instructions

Even though we think EasyRecipe is simple to use, here’s how to enter your first recipe.

1.  Start your post with whatever text you want as your normal blog post.  Add your photos too.  The first photo you add to your post will be the photo that shows up on the printed page.

2.  When you’re ready to add your recipe to the post click the little chef’s hat icon above the the window – it’s in the Upload/Insert line. You must be using the Visual Editor not the HTML editor, but most people will automatically use the Visual Editor anyway.

3.  When you click the chef’s hat icon you’ll get the Easy Recipe panel.  Add the recipe name, the author (whether it’s you or belongs to a friend or you’re promoting someone else’s recipe) and then the meal type whether it’s breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc.

4.  Next type in a summary of your recipe. What it is, how it tastes, how easy it is to make – put here whatever you want to show up at the top of your printed recipe.

5.  Here’s where you enter in your ingredients – one ingredient per line please or copy and paste from your recipe file.

6. Want a heading inside your list of ingredients?  It’s easy.  If you’re making two items in one recipe, let’s say it’s brownies AND frosting, just start the heading line line with an exclamation point. (!)

7.  Tab to the next window and type in your cooking instructions one instruction per line or copy and paste from your recipe file.

8.  If you want to add a heading inside your list of instructions do it the same way you did the heading in the list of ingredients.  Any line that starts with an exclamation point (!) is a heading line and will be in bold text.

9.  Finally, if you want to add notes to your recipe that need to be printed with the recipe, click the NOTES link at the bottom of the panel and a new text window will magically appear.  If you need to add a list of cooking temperatures for the doneness of meat or how to use a piping bag or anything – you name it and notes will give you the spot to put it in.

10. Add the prep time, the cook time and how many servings your recipe makes and you’re ready to publish your recipe.  If you want to add the calories, fat content, etc.  you can click OPTIONS and you can add all of that there.  These are optional.

Once you click add recipe you’ll see a place holder in your edit screen.  Don’t worry, your recipe won’t look like this – this is just a place holder so you know where your formatted recipe sits on the page.  Save it as a draft and then preview and you’lls ee exactly how it will look on your published page.

Want to make changes to the recipe you’ve just finished?  Click anywhere in the place holder in the edit box and the recipe you just entered will pop back up and you can change anything.

Check out the finished frosted brownie recipe on Orgasmic Chef.