The recent additions page gives store owners a built-in way to display new products on their store. To display these products, you can do any of the following:
1 - Directly invoke the link to http://www.yoursite.com/recentadditions.aspx in your site's skin OR
2 - Call the xml package from your template.ascx (e.g. <div id="recentadditions"(!XmlPackageName="page.recentadditions.xml.config"!)< /div>)