It looks like you’ve pasted the short code into the “visual” version of the page. Try switching to the “text” tab on the editor and pasting it in there.
Also, can you confirm that the plugin directory is writable by your webserver? If it isn’t can you create a cache directory in the plugin folder and make it writable by your webserver? You’re the second person to have this problem, so I’m going to make a note of it and the fix in the documentation.
Perfect,
You still need to create a cache directory at wp-content/plugins/visual-recipe-index/includes/cache and make it writable by your webserver.
You’re getting timthumb errors because of this, e.g:
http://www.fermentingforfoodies.com/wp-content/plugins/visual-recipe-index/includes/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fermentingforfoodies.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F05%2FSourdough-23.jpg&h=140&w=140&zc=1&q=100
one you create that directory and make it writable by your webserver you will see images.
I’m going to mark this as resolved. Let me know if you need any more help.