Recipes use standard Markdown with optional YAML frontmatter. Here's the format:
---
tags: [comfort-food, quick]
image: my-recipe.jpg
---
# Recipe Name
**Prep Time:** 15 min | **Cook Time:** 30 min | **Servings:** 4
## Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1/2 tsp salt
## Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. Mix dry ingredients
3. Add wet ingredients and stir
## Notes
- Tips or substitutions here
Quick Reference
| Syntax | Result |
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# Heading | Recipe title (use only one) |
## Section | Section header (Ingredients, Instructions, Notes) |
- item | Bullet list (for ingredients and notes) |
1. step | Numbered list (for instructions) |
**bold** | Bold text |
*italic* | Italic text |
--- | Frontmatter delimiters (tags and image) |
The tags and image frontmatter fields are optional. Category is set by the dropdown above, not in the file.
