Gah! Can't believe I missed this! I thought I'd got you on auto upvote as well, in case something like this happened. I've rectified that now.
I don't think I've ever used a recipe that didn't need tweaking for the families tastes. I see them more as guides now. :D
I get the impression the rotating photos thing happens when posting from a phone in portrait. I've always posted from my tablet, though, so that would be in the same mode and I never had problems in the past. Recently I've only posted landscape and square, so I can't say if that's changed. I'd be curious to know if it also depends on the platform you post from. I still use Steemit as I can't get @steempeak to let me post.