Here are my two favorite:
http://www.seriouseats.com/user/profile/GoodEaterKenji
Big fan of Serious Eats myself, although it’s been a while since I caught up on my food blog reading.
Also a big fan of the kitchn: http://www.thekitchn.com/
Kenji is the only guy I regularly read on SeriousEats. Marc at NoRecipes is usually my go-to if I can’t think of something to eat for dinner. His Kimchi Jigae recipe is so insanely good. We probably make it every other week or so.
I like Kenji’s approach on sausage grilling:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/05/the-food-lab-the-best-way-to-grill-sausages.html?ref=title
I’ve found an additional approach where they’ll initially get placed on top of the other meats grilling until they warm up and then they get direct heat towards the end. So I don’t put the sausage on until everything else is nearly finished. About 20 minutes.
Much like brewing, in cooking it seems technique matters much more than recipes. I hate food blogs that just have a recipe and a finished dish. I love Kenji’s blog because he shows you how to do it, how not to do it, and some of the reasoning behind it.
I also love Good Eats, Test Kitchen, and Cook’s Country for the same reasons.
I agree that technique is much more important than any single recipe. With technique(s) you don’t need a recipe really. Just available ingredients.
I only use recipes when baking or when making a dish that I haven’t made before. After that, I just run with my own palate and imagination.