AH yeah.. ok great input thank you.. That pretty much follows with the various things I've read about text and code.
I like the idea of having a relevant link off the page, but I do think it's an often overlooked thing once you get a bunch of recips.
I know the last free site I did had more html code just for recips than for the entire rest of the page.
I try to trim them down a little, but people like 'em how they made 'em, so usually I limit it to removing all the whitespace before the first "<" per line (ie: find ^\W*< replace with <).
Amazing how many k that "empty" space takes up over time, hehe.
