How to Enter Recipes

I have been MIA here for some time, but decided to start tracking food again. I wanted to add a recipe (as I did many times in the past), and found the procedure totally confusing. In the past, I could choose individual ingredients according to brands, contents, etc. Now I'm just supposed to enter a list of all the ingredients and let the site compile the nutritional information. I don't like this for two reasons:

1. It often doesn't work and I'm left unable to get recipe entered on the site.

2. It now asks me to just enter all the ingredients in list form so that the website can assign values to each and compile nutritional information. I MUCH prefer using the old method, where I chose each ingredient from the database, according to what I actually use in the recipe, and then get final nutritional information. As we all know, the nutritional values for the same food can vary from one brand to another, etc., so the old method of entering one item at a time from the database was much more reliable.

Can someone give me any tips for using the new (and, IMHO, not improved) recipe feature?

PS---I did try to ask this question under technical support, but couldn't find a way to post a question there.