Recipe copyright law

In setting up the new site here I started posting some recipes to the Culinary journal area.  I started to become a bit paranoid about take down notices coming into my inbox by the truckloads.  I prompty did some research into the copyright laws surrounding recipes.  You can find a very good explanation here.

Basically, a listing of ingredients is fair game as is the description on how to combine them.  There is a grey area surrounding the description indicating that if the author used creativity or artistic expression in the directions then you may not copy the directions and post them verbatim.  I quickly went in and paraphrased my recipe directions thus making them completely legal.  As a practice I will start to post where I got the recipe in the first place to give the artist their due props.