Links - Cooking and Recipe Sites
5DollarDinners -Good blog with $5 dinners that serve 4. Nice cookbook by the same name.
All Recipes - Great for searching
A Year of Slow Cooking - Nice blog full of slow cooker recipes. Also a book by the same author.
Better Times Cookbook - "Cookbook and Almanac of Useful Information for Poor People"
Cooking Light - Healthy recipes
USDA Food Plans - This government run site has a booklet of frugal recipes plus budget guidelines for feeding your family.
The Cook's Thesaurus is a wonderful online reference guide for all kinds of things. For example, use it to look up different shapes of pastas when you run across some unfamiliar name in a new recipe. Not sure what some unfamiliar vegetable even looks like so you can find it in the produce bin? Try here.
Desperation Dinners aka The Kitchen Snoop- I love the book by the same name The newsletter is fantastic. Quick and easy meals.
Ellen's Kitchen - Ya gotta love the name! Useful "big pot" (quantity) cooking, among other things.
Hillbilly Housewife - Money saving "from scratch" recipes
Home Cooking - more than just recipes, lots of articles on cooking from About.com
Ramen - More ramen recipes than you can imagine
Student Cooking in the UK - helpful articles and recipes for students trying to cook on a budget, share kitchen duties, and eat healthy.
TasteSpotting - Browse through food photos and then click through to the blog that posted the photo. If you like to pick your recipes visually, this is a fun site!
Thirty Day Gourmet: Freezer Cooking Recipes and EBooks
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