Well yes and no…
Those programs could make a simple text recipe page, but not something that would allow the reader to select the serving size they need, or show the nutritional facts of those ingredients, ETC, ETC
Consider the picture below;
Section A - When a user clicks on the word “servings” a slider appears which allows the user to select how many people the recipe is being cooked for. This doesn’t have to be a slider, sometimes you simply alter a number field, but it’s always adjustable in some way or form. I bought and was going to use CalcStack for this, but it looks to be a bit complicated to use. There is also Formula stack by 1LD. Basically this field should be simple math. If the original recipe was for one, and you need a serving size of four, then you just multiply by 4. If the original recipe called for a serving size of 2, and you want to make it for one, you simply divide by 2, etc. Then the ingredients list auto populates with the correct ingredient amounts.
Section B - User clicks here and can save this recipe in their own online favorites library. There might be a stack that does this but I haven’t found one yet.
Section C - Users can vote on the popularity of the recipe. Doobox makes the “Love It” Stack which can do this. They are the only developer who has a stack that does this.
Section D - When you enter in the recipe ingredients this field is auto generated showing the nutritional facts. It’s actually not very hard to do because there is already a API which does this automatically, but you’d need to make a template for results to be entered into. Not hard, but still no stack currently does this.
These are the main areas where a s simple CMS or blog fails.
These areas don’t have to be in any specific place on the recipe page, but they DO have to be somewhere on the recipe page. The picture above is just a rough example…