Basically, an NS Recipe item is made of: a title, one or more categories, a description, ingredients and directions.
The recipe data model has constantly been enriched to match the maximum number of usages.
Available fields are:
Creation date, author, number of views, difficulty, cost, rating, preparation time, cooking time, waiting time, seasons, nutrition facts, price, video, meta keywords
You can display/hide recipe fields in Component Options
Components > NS Recipe > Options > Recipe tab
Many NS Recipe Menu items display recipes as a blog.
Menu items that fall into this category: View by Categories, Most read recipes, Favorite recipes, Archive view, Most popular (best rated) recipes, View by tags, Featured recipes, My Cookbook, Search results, View by Season, View by Chef, View all Recipes.
All above views use settings defined in Component Options
Components >NS Recipes > Options > Recipes tab
You can display/hide recipe fields in Component Options
Components > NS Recipe > Options > Recipe edition tab
One of the most important settings of this options tab is: Use recipe settings.
Noteworthy When editing recipes from front-end as a "Superadmin," additional fields are automatically displayed: recipe views counter, published & validated status, featured, and language.