It was a challenge, but I used that plugin and heavily modified it to do what I wanted:
http://www.jonvandalen.com/lte/recipe-index/
Anyone have ideas on this? Just something basic to get me started?
very good idea about using a 1 column theme as a starting point… wish i had thought of that. still going to need some more hand-holding i am sure, but i will give this a try and report back…
