try this

Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).DescendantsOrSelf().Items.Where(x=>x.Name == collect)

assuming that all the "Recipe Repository" have the same Document Type Alias.

if rep1/rep2 are the name of the node than use above but if they are different document type. then use below:

Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).DescendantsOrSelf().Items.Where(x=>x.NodeTypeAlias== collect)

Hi Ali,

Thanks for that. The first one you gave looks like the right one. All repositories have the same Document Type I tried putting it in and I got this error:

"Cannot use a lambda expression as an argument to a dynamically dispatched operation without first casting it to a delegate or expression tree type".

I think my problem is using that code in a foreach:

foreach (var item in Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).DescendantsOrSelf().Items.Where(x=>x.Name == collect)) {
** do something for each recipe's properties: (item.Name, item.Image, item.description) in the chosen repository ** }

Do I need to collect the recipes into an array and then use that in the foreach for this to work?

Tried this from another recent post, but still no luck:

var recipeitems = Model.Content.Children.Where("DocumentTypeAlias == \"@collect\"");
foreach (var item in recipeitems) {   }

you dont need to do that actually. it should just work because the result of

Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).DescendantsOrSelf().Items.Where(x=>x.Name == collect)

would be IEnumerable

I would use CurrentModel to get proper intellisense in visual studio

 var rep = CurrentModel.AncestorOrSelf(1).DescendantsOrSelf().Items.Where(x => x.Name == collect).ToList();

foreach (var node in rep)
{
    @node.GetPropertyValue("myProperty")
}

Brilliant! Thanks Ali, that worked a charm.
I had to remove AncestorsOrSelf(1) because I moved the repositories into a parent repository, but works great!

Thanks 

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