thanks for your feedback, what is your screen resolution+browser?(you shouldn't have to scroll down) there are existing players in this space(supercook.com/recipematcher.com) My main motivation to create rp was my frustration with these services. I am experimenting with a lot of ideas for monetization. I am not sure it is legal to display the full recipe on the site. The way the search works is that it sorts by the number of matching ingredients and then by the number of ingredients in the recipe. I find that adding ingredients to exclude helps narrow down the recipes to things I can mostly make. You can also try out the account which lets you limit the max # of ingredients in the search results.
My screen res is 1440x900 and my browser is Safari 4 public beta. If it isn't legal to display the full recipes on your site I wonder if you could around that by doing a split-pane thing - with your content on one side and the source content on the other, that's cheating a bit but not nearly as much as if you scraped everything as your own. I wonder if there are any free-use recipe databases you could use. Smart design on the search - you might want to highlight this on the front page as your sorting algorithm inspires confidence in the search results. Good luck!
