I like how easy recipe discovery is on forkingrecipes. I think the waterfall layout and search bar were good decisions.

Mappum and I made something pretty similar for the last Node Knockout.

http://foodhub.jit.su/

Like orangethirty said, foodies tend to be really visual, so we encourage the user to take a high quality photo by making it the focus of their recipe page.

Good job, I'm excited to see where you go with this. :)