Call me old-fashioned
Call me a prescriptionist
Call me a language anti-evolutionist
Just don't call me late for dinner... :)

I object wholeheartedly to the use of the verb recommend followed by a personal noun or pronoun.
I just doesn't sound right, and it's only been in the last few years that I have seen it used this way, primarily by English learners, and I have told each and every one of them that they should avoid this use.

I have always used the verbs 'recommend and suggest' in one of two ways:
1  to recommend something; e.g., a book, a movie, a type of food, or a course of action
2  to recommend someone for a job; e.g., I would recommend SuKi for the position of Chief of Grammar (as long as her views were consistent with mine :)

I also agree that the word 'that' be used when the verb is followed by a clause.

And that's that... :)

Good topic SuKi..