How To Submit Your Recipe

[Molly53]

Firstly, please type the name of your recipe into the searchline to make sure that it's not already in the db.
The site's db is approaching 1/2 million recipes and removal of duplicates is an ongoing process.

When you're ready to enter your recipe, hover your cursor over the the down arrow up near your name in the in the top right of your screen. Choose SUBMIT A RECIPE from the drop down menu (bottom of the third column).



When posting the instructions to your delicious recipes, please remember that our members are located all over the world and have all levels of experience from beginner to professional. If you want others to understand your recipes, you need to say what exactly needs to be done with each ingredient. Please write your directions completely and clearly in an elementary fashion so that novice cooks or people whose first language is not English can have the best opportunity for a successful outcome when they try your recipe.

Separate the steps by hitting the enter key once after each step. If you have ended with a period, then the next line should be another step. This makes reading and following your recipe easier for those that will be preparing it. It will also ensure that your recipe is placed correctly in certain categories that food.com chooses for you.

When someone wants a recipe that is 3 steps or less and they sift for that category, it is a little frustrating to see so many recipes that list 12 steps in one or 2 paragraphs.

There is no need to number your steps. The software will do that for you when your recipe is approved to the database.

Thank you very much for taking the extra time to make your recipes easier to read and for posting correctly in order for your recipe to be placed in the proper category.

Formatting Guidelines for Submitting Recipes
We understand just about every measurement and ingredient, but there are some things that will cause your recipe to be rejected:

Measurements and amounts must precede the ingredient.
"1 cup sugar" NOT "sugar, 1 cup"

Differently-sized packages are sold around the world, so all packages, cans, boxes, containers, etc. MUST include the weight or volume size of the package.
"1 (15 oz.) can tomatoes" NOT "1 small can tomatoes" or "1 can tomatoes"

For the same reason, "cans" may not be used as measuring tools.
NOT "1 can water"

Any included "mix" must include all items necessary to make it
NOT "1 cake mix, prepared according to package"

Only whole, decimal or fractional weight or volume measurements can be accepted (see accepted measurements)
NOT "1 handful basil" or "1 heaping cup flour" or "2 servings pasta" or "1 part oil, 1 part vinegar"

Other recipes cannot be included as ingredients, unless they can be purchased at the store.
"1 prepared pie crust (I recommend )" NOT "1 recipe of My Eggs Benedict"

To separate sections of your recipe's ingredients list (as an example; cake, frosting, filling), entitle each section followed by a colon before typing in the ingredients.
For example:
Cake:
Ingredient 1
Ingredient 2
Ingredient 3

Filling:
Ingredient 1
Ingredient 2
Ingredient 3

Frosting:
Ingredient 1
Ingredient 2
Ingredient 3

The default setting is "private". To make your contribution public, click on the MAKE PUBLIC link once. Your recipe will remain private until you choose to make it public. Once it has been made public, it cannot be made private again nor removed from the db.
After you click the POST RECIPE button, your recipe is added to the approval queue of recipes to be added to the public database. The public database is updated throughout the day (M-F, excluding US holidays) and you will receive an email notifying you when your recipe is available to the public.

To check on the approval progress, doubl click on your chef name at the top of the page to get to your About Me page, then TRACK MY SUBMISSIONS:


Once your recipe has been approved/made public, it will only be removed if it is identified as a duplicate of another recipe already in the database.

If you discover an error after the recipe has been approved, click on SUBMIT A CORRECTION in the column just to the right of the directions, make the changes you wish, scroll through the subsequent pages until you get to the one that tells you they've been successfully submitted.

[Molly53]

Chef Tweaker wrote:
Could you add here the short cut for making sections in the recipe and in the ingredients list. (ie, filling and crust ingredients listed separately)
I got the : to work for the ingredients list but also wanted to separarate it out in the instructions and I'm having trouble with that.

We are unable to do the same thing in the directions, Tweaker.

[Chef Tweaker]

Molly53 wrote:

Chef Tweaker wrote:
Could you add here the short cut for making sections in the recipe and in the ingredients list. (ie, filling and crust ingredients listed separately)
I got the : to work for the ingredients list but also wanted to separarate it out in the instructions and I'm having trouble with that.

We are unable to do the same thing in the directions, Tweaker.

Bummer! I thought I had seen it before. Thanks anyways.

[Rainbow - Chef 536866]

Okay, I just spent a couple of hours trying to fill out that form for publishing a recipe. The last thing I did was click on the box that says I searched for it, and then clicked on the box to post it,, and I think nothing happened.

oh, well.

[Molly53]

Rainbow - Chef 536866 wrote:
Okay, I just spent a couple of hours trying to fill out that form for publishing a recipe. The last thing I did was click on the box that says I searched for it, and then clicked on the box to post it,, and I think nothing happened.

oh, well.

If you filled out the submittal form and clicked on the final box, you should have received a message that your recipe was successfully submitted.

Click on MY PAGE at the top of the page. In the left-hand column just beneath your name is a series of links. Click on the one that says TRACK MY SUBMISSIONS. Your submittal should be there and also in the approval queue.

The editorial staff do not work on approvals over the weekends or on holidays. Generally speaking, a recipe submitted on a Saturday should be approved on about Tuesday or so (depending upon how many there are in the queue).

[Rainbow - Chef 536866]

I clicked on 'My Page' and don't see any tracking button. I did not see that my submission was accepted, and that's why I posted here that I don't think it 'took'.

[PaulaG]

[quote="Rainbow - Rainbow - Chef #536866"]I clicked on 'My Page' and don't see any tracking button. I did not see that my submission was accepted, and that's why I posted here that I don't think it 'took'.[/quote]

The link to track submissions is just under "Post a Recipe".

[Rainbow - Chef 536866]

"Post a Recipe' is the last thing on my drop down menu. It looks like I can't do them. Do we have to have 'premium' status to post recipes?

[Molly53]

Rainbow - Chef 536866 wrote:
"Post a Recipe' is the last thing on my drop down menu. It looks like I can't do them. Do we have to have 'premium' status to post recipes?

No, friend. Every member has the ability to post a recipe, no matter their membership status.

TRACK MY SUBMISSIONS should be the next link after POST A RECIPE. If you're not seeing it, you need to let the staff know in the Customer Support forum. The link for it is at the bottom of every Recipezaar page.

[Rainbow - Chef 536866]

okay, thanks

[Molly53]

Rainbow - Chef 536866 wrote:
okay, thanks

Did you actually CLICK on My Page or did you hover your cursor over it? We need you to click on it.



What Paula and I were talking about was the link between POST A RECIPE and EDIT THIS PAGE (sorry, I don't have an image with an arrow in the correct place). Click on TRACK MY SUBMISSIONS to see if your recipe is in the approval queue.

[Rainbow - Chef 536866]

Yes, I clicked on 'My Page' and 'Post a Recipe' is the last item on the menu. I clicked on that and got the form page for posting, and filled it out. If there is an e-mail addy then I can send a screen shot back to you.

[Molly53]

[quote="Rainbow - Rainbow - Chef #536866"]Yes, I clicked on 'My Page' and 'Post a Recipe' is the last item on the menu. I clicked on that and got the form page for posting, and filled it out. If there is an e-mail addy then I can send a screen shot back to you.[/quote]Yep...send it to liza at recipezaar dot com

[Rainbow - Chef 536866]

sent

[Rainbow - Chef 536866]

Today I was able to post my first recipe!! YAY!!!

There was something wrong last time, but this time when I clicked on 'continue' it did go to the next step.