If your former handle was craigtoyo racer then nice to see you again. If not, all the same.
You are doing a lot of stuff that the app didn't tell you that you needed to do. In fact we are doing nothing the app said it was capable of. Your instincts were good.
But...the workaround is sound. I tried this. I mean I tried saving recipes that allowed you to print page. And then saved that printed page. As UTF-8. But when importing FILE, as you specified, all I get is an UTF16 import option fail.
Going one further, I took this html saved print page on my desktop, uploaded to gourmet as file, and WOW had half a dozen options to upload as. Many of them did not work. But upload as "Gourmet XML" did.
My first recipe, thank you for the steer. There is no straight-from-web capabilities in this solus repo version, but maybe in time. I can handle the DIY part.
Web URL still useless in this app, and create your own recipe still useless in this app, but if you save a page that allows you to save their print file to desktop or downloads....then you can wrangle it in.
I still believe we are using about 10% of this app's capabilities, but it's a start. Thank you Craig.