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There's a lot to DO in a home – this category contains all things having to do with maintaining, making and improving in your space.

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Results from Day 3 of the Offbeat Home cooking challenge. In which Megan meets hoisin sauce, learns what risotto is, and shows off her smiling paring knife. It was also a magical day in the Finley household because her husband actually ate something other than pizza himself, and makes a pretty adorable video appearance.

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Results from Day 2 of the Offbeat Home cooking challenge. In which Megan's day is hijacked by a quiche from hell, and she learns that onions do WAY more than just make you "cry."

We prepare for Day 4 with some comfort foods: french toast for breakfast, a sweet fruity snack, and a creamy baked mac and cheese to take us into the night.

We've reached Day 3 of the Offbeat Home Food Challenge, but will Megan survive? Will Cat continue her torturous pace of cooking challenges? Will Ariel continue to hold up during a week of procedure-less posts?!

This post won't answer any of these questions, but it WILL give you the recipes for Day 3. Cook along IF YOU DARE.

See those apple slices on the right? That sight alone was enough to completely freak me out, just MINUTES into my first Offbeat Home food challenge. That cut in half apple was far as I got on this challenge before running into a problem.

On Day 2 of cooking challenge, I plan to load Megan up on cheese, strawberries, and dark chocolate. It's good-for-you food, but only if you can control yourself! I'm not great at limiting myself when presented with tasties.

Today is Day 1 of Offbeat Home's Cooking Challenge, wherein we see if Offbeat Bride's Managing Editor Megan, a complete non-cook who lives off of frozen pizza and cereal, can go an entire week of preparing her own meals.