I'm not Tamarian, but here's what I do. When you log on to the main forum page the forums that have new messages have a yellow light bulb beside them, if there was a new recipe in the recipe section it would have one of these beside it. Also, right under where it says Welcome..(whatever your name is) there is a link that says view new posts.

Unless you are talking about recipes in the recipe section of the web site, not the forum?