You might want to take a look at some of the most popular recipe sites such as allrecipes.com. You will notice that all of their front page recipes have pictures with them. I strongly recommend you do that with your site since it would make it seem more professional. Also, those tags on the side are ugly. It would be best to remove them since you already have a search box. Lastly, a nice touch would be to add the calorie count of each recipe to the site. There are sites out there that allow you to easily calculate meal calories that you can add to your site. There's enough dieters in the world that I think you would earn some brownie points from that (just make sure they're low fat :lol
I'd also like to add that you need to change up your color scheme a bit. You have the same color over the entire site which makes it very bland to look at. Good start though! I'm looking forward to seeing it updated.
