I think you should go ahead and recommend them. If you want to put in a caveat ("Could use work from a beta," or "back in the day before the cliche was a cliche", or something)...I tend to recommend things pretty randomly, if I felt better after reading it then it's probably okay to rec. But I'm not a perfectionist...or for that matter a very good reccer!

Oh, and I read them when they're in a fandom or genre that interests me...you're in a lot of fandoms I'm not, and some of the pairings totally don't interest me, but when you hit on something in my field, I usually do read and like them. :)