One audience matches your description and is the invested reader. They want that blogger's story telling. they might make the recipe, but they're a dedicated reader.
The other audience is not the recipe-searcher, but instead Google. Food bloggers know that recipe-searchers are there to drop in, get an ingredient list, and move on. They won't even remember the blog's name. So the site isn't optimized for them. It's optimized for Google.
"Slow the parasitic recipe-searcher down. They're leeches, here for a freebie. Well they'll pay me in Google Rank time blocks."
This is not entirely true, though. If a randomly found recipe turns out particularly good, I'll bookmark the site and try out other dishes. It's a very practical method to find particularly good* recipe collections.
*) In this case "good" means what you need - not just subjectively "tasty", but e.g. low cost, quick to prepare, low calorie or in line with a particular diet and so on.
I think this assumes facts not in evidence. It certainly seems like an overwhelming number of "blogs" are not actual blogs but SEO content farms. There's no regular readers of such things because there's no actual authors, just someone that took a job on Fivver to spew out some SEO garbage. Old content gets reposted almost verbatim because new results better according to Google.
The only reason these "blogs" exist is to show ads and hopefully get someone's e-mail (and implied consent) for a marke....newsletter.
It's at least half the business models of Food Network shows: aspirational kitchens and the people that live in them and also sometimes here's their recipes. (The other half being competitions, obviously.) I've got friends that could deliver entire doctoral theses on the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen (and its many YouTube shows and blogs) and the huge soap operatic drama of 2020's events where the entire brand milkshake ducked itself; falling into people's hearts as "feel good" entertainment early in 2020/the pandemic and then exploding very dramatically with revelations and betrayals that Fall.
Which isn't to say that there aren't garbage SEO farms out there in the food blogging space as well, but a lot of the big ones people commonly complain about seeing in google's results do have regular fans/audiences. (ETA: And many of the smaller blogs want to have regular fans/audiences. It's an active influencer/"content creator" space with relatively low barrier to entry that people love. Everyone's family loves food, it's a part of the human condition.)
A couple of browser add-ons specifically geared around trimming recipe pages down have been taken down due to similar complaints.
You see some of that "two readers" divide sometimes even in classic cookbooks, where "celebrity" chefs of the day might spend much of a cookbook on a long rambling memoir. Admittedly such books were generally well indexed and had table of contents to jump right to the recipes or particular recipes, but the concept of "long personal ramble of what these recipes mean to me" is an old one in cookbooks too.