For a quick simple fix that should be fairly easy to implement,
since so many people are having this problem (including myself), why
don't you just add an option to use MAPI in the email settings (a
simple check box or radio button in the email config options would
suffice, thus greying out all the other fields when selected).
Then,
you can tell the program to automatically copy the currently selected
recipe(s) to the body field of a new blank email of whatever email
program the user has set as default (such as Outlook, Outlook Express,
Windows Live Mail, IncrediMail, etc). The recipe would be copied just as it is (HTML format, just as it would be copied if the user elected to copy/paste it directly into an email). You could even go so far as to
have a check box for an option of whether or not to include the
nutritional data in the email.
If you really want to advertise
your program, you could even include a footer line at the end of the
recipe with a simple link to BigOven.com!
For futher revision,
you could include options such as: Insert the recipe into
the email as a) Text Only, b) BigOven format, or c) HTML (which would
preserve the formatting as set up in the BigOven theme file and include
any photographs or other data). This would ensure the maximum usage of the feature, so if I wanted to send it to someone who didn't use HTML email format, I could select the Text format option, and if I were sending it to someone who used BigOven, I could send it in that format so they could easily upload it to their copy of BigOven.
I really hope to see this feature soon, since one of your rivals already does this (but I like your program better, except for the fact that I can't get the email thing to work and copy/pasting all the time gets tedious when I know the functionality exists to make it easier).
Thanks!