Displaying subMenus when you open parent menu page

Hi all,
Not quite sure how to explain this one as I am SUPER new to using WP. I got my little food blog up and running within a week and a half and now that I am able to take awesome pictures of my food, I want to be able to fix some of the site backend.

When you hover over a menu item under Recipes, like “Appetizers” I want to be able to not only display the submenu items in the dropdown function but have the whole list either in an index type method or displayed right away without having to select an actual submenu. Is this possible?

Here’s what I mean