Recipe list steps render as paragraphs

Recipe steps render wrapped in <p> tags.

Every step of every recipe sits in a CommonMark loose list: a blank line separates each item from the next. Goldmark marks such a list loose and wraps each item’s body in a paragraph, so /post/recipe/ pages emit <li><p>step</p></li>. Posts write tight lists - no blank lines between items

• and emit <li>step</li>, which is why only recipes show the extra markup.

The markup costs vertical space: @tailwindcss/typography styles .prose > ul > li > p:first-child at margin-top: 1.25em and the matching last-child at margin-bottom: 1.25em, on top of the 0.5em it gives every li. Steps are spaced like paragraphs of prose, so a 12 step recipe page runs to three screens of white gaps. Nested lists are worse: they are not .prose > ul > li, so their items take the plain paragraph margin of 1.25em with no compensation.

The card is a content bug, not a theme bug: no layout, partial, shortcode or CSS rule adds a paragraph to a list item.

Recipe list steps render as paragraphs

• Every blank line between two sibling items of a list in content/post/recipe/ is deleted, in the 47 recipe index.md files that need it: 294 blank lines removed, no other line touched.
• Nested lists are tightened too, so the outer list stays tight: a blank line between two children of a nested list also separates the items of its parent list.
• Items with a second paragraph, blockquotes and fenced code keep their blank lines: only a blank line whose next non-blank line is a sibling item marker is removed.
• The blank line that closes a list before a heading or paragraph stays, so the list is not glued to the block after it.

Acceptance Criteria

• grep -R -P -l -z '<li>\s*<p>' public/post/recipe finds no match: 0 of the 58 recipe pages emit a paragraph inside a list item, 47 of them did before.
• grep -R -P -l -z '(?m)^[-*+] .*\n\n[-*+] ' content/post/recipe --include='index.md' reports no recipe written as a loose list; 34 did before. The gap between 34 and 47 is lists whose items end in a continuation line, which the source pattern misses and the build check catches.
• pnpm run test passes: 659 pages, 408 processed images, 409 pages with exactly one h1, 35 cards valid.
• Prettier reports content/post/recipe/**/*.md clean, so the change survives lint-staged without being reflowed.

Notes

• The prose plugin cannot absorb the symptom by zeroing li > p margins: it would leave 294 stray <p> in recipes that need them for multi paragraph items, and the plugin’s rules are written for loose lists on purpose.
• content/post/linux/install-debian-13-trixie/index.md is the one post with the same loose style. It is the only page under /post/ outside the recipes still rendering <li><p>, and is left alone as out of scope.

Not in scope

• Tightening the loose lists in content/kanban/ and content/specification/, which are read as cards and documents, not as prose steps.