Cooking, we love. No question. But a trip to buy groceries, now that can be a different matter entirely. Do you see grocery shopping as an enjoyable prelude to a day in the kitchen? Or a necessary evil? More

Dear Readers,

After eight days of vigorous voting*, this year's winner for Best Home Cooking Blog is:

Please check out Gina's great blog and thank you for taking part in helping us to discover and celebrate the best in the home blogosphere. Gina's Skinny Recipes will now join our pantheon of Best Blogs, and we'll see you next year in January.

Best, Maxwell

* Please note that to counter vote stuffers, we removed any instances where we saw an extreme amount of votes from one unique IP address. We did allow for instances like universities, where there could be many people on one IP, and we did examine IP locations. We applied the exact same criteria to each blog and vote entered in the contest.

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Last year we started an awards thingy for home blogs because we were tired of everyone lumping us into categories like "general lifestyle" or "topical" on all the other blog awards thingys. It was a great success, we discovered a ton of awesome blogs and we drove a lot of traffic to them (check out last year's winners here). Tomorrow we're opening up this year's submissions for the best home blogs in five categories. AND unlike most online awards, we've designed it so that it emphasizes sharing, celebrating and discovering new blogs. We think you'll be pleasantly surprised.