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Food Matters Project: Curried Tomato Soup Without Hard-boiled Eggs

March 19, 2012

This week’s Food Matters Project recipe is Joanne’s pick. Joanne from Eats Well with Others choose Curried Tomato Soup with Hard-boiled Eggs as our recipe. Being the picky eater that I am, I loathe hard boiled eggs. I also hate cauliflower. So my answer to this soup was to leave out the hard boiled eggs [...]

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Iced Pumpkin Cookies

March 16, 2012

Looking for a sweet way to start your weekend? Try these delicious pumpkin glazed cookies. I know they seem rather un-spring like but they are so freaking good! Iced Pumpkin Cookies Adapted from: All Recipies Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda [...]

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Map Art

March 15, 2012

It seems everywhere you look, people are using maps to decorate their houses. Today’s tutorial shows you how you can incorporate this trend into your decor without spending a whole lot of cash. To complete this project you will need: a pencil a good eraser a map tracing paper masking tape thick white paper Take [...]

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A New Look for Big Box Detox

March 14, 2012

After months of work I am excited to launch a new look for Big Box Detox! A big thanks to Eric for working so hard and helping me code the thing! One of the big goals of this redesign was to make the content easier to browse. To accomplish this task, I went back and recategorized ever single [...]

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Living Room

March 13, 2012

Over the past couple of weeks I have shared pictures of our office and our living room. Today I thought I would keep the trend going and share pictures of our living room. When we first moved in our living room looked something like this. The before picture looks awful. The big dark Ikea shelf [...]

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Food Matters Project: Hummus Served Hot

March 12, 2012

This week’s Food Matters project recipe for Hummus Served Hot was chosen by Erin over at Naturally Ella. Next time, I am going to smother this recipe in cheese just like Erin! Can you say delicious!?! This time I stuck exactly to Bittman’s recipe. I am embarrassed to admit that this is the first time [...]

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Oatmeal Cookies

March 8, 2012

While I am love posting about the Food Matters project, it seems to have taken me away from my love of baking. So this week, you get two recipes, one on the healthier side (thanks Food Matters Project) and this recipe for oatmeal cookies. I prefer raisins in my cookies and Eric likes chocolate so I [...]

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Black Hole: AKA the Kitchen

March 7, 2012

Although we moved into our house two years ago, I have nto done any work in the kitchen. Our kitchen is awful. It is a dark, black hole dark and I have been dreaming of renovating it since we moved in. Since we have not done a thing to our kitchen, I have never featured [...]

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DIY Grid Painting

March 7, 2012

If you frequent Big Box Detox you will know that I am always looking for affordable art options. When I found this super thin painter’s tape in our basement (left by the previous owner) I thought it would be perfect for a DIY art project and the grid painting was born! Tweet This Post

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Food Matters Project: Seared Bean Sprouts with Beef

March 5, 2012

Since Eric and I spent the weekend in Edmonton partying it up with my family, this week’s Food Matters Project Post is super late! The roads were bad and we had no food when we got home so it is 9PM and we just finished making dinner. I am running so late all you get is an Instagram photo [...]