I am trying to add content (/node/add/recipe) and it does not save instead the screen returned says

“This page isn’t working localhost is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500”

and I get no watchdog/db_log messages associated to this attempt to add content. I went into the node_save function within node.module to see how far it went and it appears to stop near the beginning at “$ transaction = db_transaction();” see below node_save snippet:

*function node_save($  node) {   watchdog('debug', print_r($  node, TRUE));   $  transaction = db_transaction();* 

As you can see I have outputted the $ node object to look for any clues as to why this is failing and I would attach this file that contains this output if I could. Any suggestions on things I could try would be appreciated.

John