Thank you for the replies everyone. I am SO bad at describing things sometimes. Here's the rules for Boggle here, it'll explain it better than I could:
https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Boggle
The dictionary link is appreciated as I can surely use it for my other puzzles and games!
The main goal really of this "recursion" is figuring out how to find all possibilities based on Boggle pattern matching. I can't even begin to figure out how to do that in a program, beyond what I did by hand.
If the grid cells didn't "twist and turn" i think I could figure it out, but the complete "randomness" (for lack of a better word) just grinds my progress to a halt.
@Paul: No, letters may not repeat within a word. Each grid cell may be used only once. Interesting idea, though. as an option to be able to repeat grid cells. Thanks for the tip!