Well all great things start small, and this great thing has been a long time coming! Below is our recipe widget that we have been working on for quite some time. Why use it? Well, it turns a recipe from simple unstructured text into a nicely formatted object. This allows a reader to save your recipe into their collection, email it to a friend or print a nicely formatted page. In addition, saving it will keep a permanent link to the original blog post that they got it from, even if they modify the recipe to their own tastes. It creates a legacy of credit that is nice for everyone.

The widget also will update any changes that you make to the recipe on Key Ingredient. We are really excited about this new tool and look forward to getting bloggers to give it a spin!

A couple of caveats:

>The recipe embed code (a button to the right of the recipe marked Blog This) has to be added in Wordpress with the visual editor shut off. Don’t really know why, but this is the same issue in Wordpress for embedding YouTube videos.

>I’ve added some styling before the embed code to push the widget off of the left edge of the blog. I added <p style=”margin-left:100px> before the embed code and a </p> after it. This styling pushes the widget to the right of your blog posting area by 100 pixels. You can move it further right by increasing the value and to the left by decreasing it. With no styling, the widget will appear flush left.

More soon and looking for feedback!