Discovered this by accident, and you may already know about it, or perhaps it's already been posted, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. While in the ingredient menu if you rest your mouse cursor on an ingredient and rotate the mouse wheel up, the ingredient will zoom in and the rest of the menu will disappear.

Kinda cool!

Not only is it cool, you need it in order to solve certain puzzles in some dungeons. Have you been to Bleak Falls Barrow yet?

I had forgotten how to actually do this, and it has caused difficulty in seeing the pattern for the puzzles in dungeons. Thanks for posting this...

I didn't know about that at first and brute forced my way through trying every combination

Pressing "c" on the keyboard also allows you to inspect any selected inventory item as a floating 3d model. "Tab" takes you back to the normal view.