My idea is based on how you can look up recipes and uses for an item with JEI.

The idea is that you can press whatever key you have for Show Uses, and instead of pulling up every recipe for that item in whatever order is used currently, it will show first the recipes that can be made using that item, and whatever other items are in your inventory at that time.

For example, if I have a bucket and steel ingots (mekanism mod) in my inventory, and I press "U", (the default keybind) having it show me a Jerrycan (immersive engineering) which requires iron ingots, is pretty useless, but having it show me Basic Mechanical Pipes (mekanism) is very handy.

Now, I am not suggesting that the other recipes should not be shown, just that the most relevant recipes should be shown first.