The issue was that I called the function in his normally described method instead of directly. Not sure why it makes a difference but here is the revised working code from my single.php file.
Code:
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="content-wrapper">
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post-thumbnail">
<?php the_post_thumbnail(array(95,95)); ?>
</div><!-- /.post-thumbnail -->
<div class="post-heading">
<h2 class="post-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<p class="post-meta"><?php the_time('M j Y') ?> | by <?php the_author_posts_link() ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
</div><!-- /.post-heading -->
<div class="post-content">
<?php the_content(); ?>
<div class="clear"></div>
<?php $recipe = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'embed-recipe', true); ?>
<?php if ( $recipe ){
$post_id = $recipe;
$queried_post = get_post($post_id);
?>
<div class="entry-content-recipe">
<h2 class="post-title"><?php echo $queried_post->post_title; ?></h2>
<!--PRINT RECIPE-->
<div class="wp-print-text"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($recipe); ?>print/" title="print this recipe" rel="bookmark"><img src="/wp-content/plugins/wp-print/images/printer_famfamfam.gif" /> Print this recipe</a></div>
<!--END PRINT RECIPE-->
<div class="recipe-wrapper">
<p><?php echo apply_filters('the_content', $queried_post->post_content); ?></p>
</div><!-- / .recipe-wrapper -->
</div><!-- / .entry-content-recipe -->
<?php } else {} ?>
</div><!-- /.post-content -->
<?php comments_template(); ?>
<!-- includes next previous links or post level nav -->
<?php include_once('assets/includes/post-navigation.php'); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>
<?php endif; ?>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div><!-- /#content-wrapper -->
<div class="clear"></div>
</div><?php // end #body-sidebar-wrap ?>
<!-- includes wide sidebar for all pages -->
<?php include_once('assets/includes/wide-sidebar.php'); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>