Need advice on setting up a site with user contributed database and integrated forum.

[Lugnut]

I need a bit of advice on setting up a recipe site. Basically, I need it to do some very specific tasks and I'm unsure how to go about it.

Features I need:

• Ability for users to submit recipes to the site. Some sort of form (preferably one where I can edit the fields to include stuff like ingredients, cooking instructions and images)
• search that scours recipe database
• ratings for recipes
• integrated forum
• registration on the site means the user can post on the forum and vice versa

The forum part is easy, I'll be using vB3.5. I have a list of plugins that I will use to customize the forum. I'm also a relatively skilled skinner so making a good integrated theme is easy.

The part I need is the front end that allows for a front page and a user submitted recipe database that is searchable, browseable and rateable.

I looked at vB Portal and it doesn't seem to have all the features I need. Or, at least, I don't see how I can get it to do what I need.

Does anyone know how I can get software to do, roughly, what I need without enormous modification? I'm not a programmer and, at best, I can do some light PHP editing but I can't create entire modules.

Thanks in advance.