Cooking for Engineers

(http://www.cookingforengineers.com/)
Nominated for a Blogger's Choice Award as Best Food Blog, Cooking for Engineers is a truly fun site for the technically minded foody. Michael Chu started CfE as a place to store and share the recipes that he likes to use as well as some kitchen notes.
Today the blog has great recipes with step-by-step instructions accompanied by pictures, as well as restaurant reviews, kitchen gear reviews and more. Michael likes to test food myths, too, and he breaks down everything that he does in very explicit terms. The blog has reference help like an ingredient dictionary, a metric conversion tool and a suggested reading list. One of my favorites.

101 Cookbooks

(http://www.101cookbooks.com/)
The first thing you will find upon logging onto this blog is a large gorgeous picture. The description of the blog is pretty straightforward: "This site chronicles a cookbook collection, one recipe at a time…"
This is a great blog for exploring recipes along with commentary and history. 101 Cookbooks has been featured in several newspaper articles and is a winner of numerous awards including the 2005 people's choice Webby Award for best personal web site.

Simply Recipes

(www.elise.com/recipes/)
Another blog with beautiful photography, Simply Recipes is the personal site of Elise Bauer "with only a few hundred recipes, all tested by me, my family and or my friends."
Simply Recipes now reaches over a million visitors a month and was recently voted Best Food Blog Overall in the 2006 Food Blog Awards. "What started as a small family project now reaches tens of thousands of people every day."

Chocolate & Zucchini

(http://www.chocolateandzucchini.com/)
Despite my hatred of zucchini, I thoroughly enjoy this blog. It is written by Clotilde Dusoulier, a Parisian woman who lives in Montmartre and shares her passion for all things food related; recipes, musings, cookbook acquisitions, quirky products, nifty tools, restaurant experiences, ideas, and inspirations. Two books have been created from this blog and there will probably be more forthcoming.