How do I restore Lion after Hard Drive Crash?

My MacBook's hard drive failed recently.  It was easy enough to pop in my SnowLeopard DVD and restore the lastest Lion TimeMachine backup.  I was up and running in no time.  Easy.
My question is what is the proper procedure in the era of Lion?  This method only restores the main partition.  What about the Recovery Partition?  I'm assuming that could come in handy... you know, to repair the partition or disk permissions if needed, right?
I'm sure it's not as hard as I am making this out to be.  If you could please point me in the right direction online, I would be very grateful.  My googling skills aren't up to the task, apparently. 

GRRR!!!
My apologies for cluttering up the threads.  I didn't know how to word it, I guess.
Here is my answer:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15899240#15899240
Thanks Kappy!

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