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1. "Recipe of" describes the components or ingredients in a recipe: "Its recipe of brandy, myrrh, and cayenne indicates it would indeed promote a heat..." Recipe for" describes the end result of the recipe: "A recipe for mulled brandy." It is common even for native speakers to confuse the two usages. "A recipe of leeks, milk, salt and pepper ...
2. Yes, saying that we cook or make something from a recipe is perfectly idiomatic. There are numerous examples extant: She's been making stuffed peppers for years from a recipe off of a veggie crumbles package. ...individual Yorkshire puddings made from a recipe I found... I still bake cookies from a recipe card in the handwriting of my mother...
An accident waiting to happen. However, "a recipe for disaster" really brings together the two ideas that a combination of factors may lead to a disastrous result. Agree. The fact that the phrase is metaphorical does not mean it is inappropriate for use in formal writing. It especially doesn't mean that.
2. There are two different pronunciations of receipt. One is /ri'sit/, where the P is not pronounced, and the other is /'rɛsəpi/, as an alternate spelling of recipe. In that one the T is not pronounced. The fact is that letters in English spelling do not represent the pronunciation of English words, no matter what your English teacher told you.
When the phrase "boiling water" is used in cooking instructions, does it mean "water that is fit for the purpose of boiling" (similar to the use of "cooking oil") or &...
1. I think it depends of context. For example try this cake just means test this cake. try this cake out makes it a little bit different since you can try a cake to see whether you like it or want to buy it. For instance, I tried this cake out before I bought it.
2. The expression "stir the pot" may be used to mean "stir the contents of the pot". It is more likely to be being used figuratively: the phrase means "unsettle and provoke arguments". The imagery is of a broth, with all the ingredients settled at the bottom. You stir it to get them unsettled.
Italian language courses teach the Standard Italian pronunciation in which almost all letters are vocalized except silent h. (So for example, "bella" is pronounced "bel la", not "be la".) So minestrone is pronounced "min eh stron ee" or "min eh stron eh". However, many people in America pronounce it "ministrohn" (silent e), and this is also ok ...
"I have also attached the screenshot of the faculty list at University which I was on." It took me a while to figure out the meaning of the sentence (maybe because of prejudice, expecting badly mangled English, but maybe because it is unusual).
In fact, the recipe writer gets a nul for French, because you don't capitalise adjectives of nationality, region, or origin, so it should be à la normande. But note that you would write poulet à la Kiev because Kiev is a proper noun, but poulet à la kiévienne is an alternative. Even Wikipedia gets far breton wrong. –