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Did you know nutmeg is a hallucinogenic drug? Eating just 0.2 ounces of it can leave you convulsing and eating 0.3 ounces will lead to hallucinations. Eating a whole one will leave you in a state of “nutmeg psychosis” and with the sense of an impeding doom. There have been two recorded deaths by nutmeg in history: the first was in 1908 and the second was as recently as 2001. Inhaling or ingesting nutmeg in high doses can cause marijuanalike high. There is a long list of bad nutmeg high symptoms which include: Hallucinations Palpitations Nausea Dry mouth Fever Abdominal spasms Convulsions Dizziness Vomiting Dehydration Body pain Irritation of the skin Constipation Insomnia Lack of energy and mortor skills Lack of speaking skills / Social withdraw Contains safrole, a carcinogen that is bad for the liver.

Hello All!! So you all know by now that I absolutely adore anything I can get for a great price and especially things that I can get for free! So you can imagine my excitement when I learned about JCPs button code give away! At first I was a little skeptical that it was just another way to get my info and send me junk, but after puitting in my code last night, and walking out of JCP with a fabulous shirt today I was convinced! Ok, so heres how it works! Go into any JCP and request some of their Christmas buttons, they're simply adorable ! (keep them and attach them to your Christmas stockings!)  Anywho, there is no purchase necessary, and along with the buttons you will receive a card telling you what to do from there (go to jcp.com/christmas and put in your 7 digit code in the box provided). You can only enter 2 codes per email, per day until the 24th of December. After you have entered your code you will receive 2 emails (1 per code). I got mine within the next 10-30 minutes ...

Happy Thanksgiving! from Teeny Bites We Give Thanks Our Father in Heaven, We give thanks for the pleasure Of gathering together for this occasion. We give thanks for this food Prepared by loving hands. We give thanks for life, The freedom to enjoy it all And all other blessings. As we partake of this food, We pray for health and strength To carry on and try to live as You would have us. This we ask in the name of Christ, Our Heavenly Father. --Harry Jewell

               Question: "What does the Bible say about ghosts / hauntings?" Answer: Is there such a thing as ghosts? The answer to this question depends on what precisely is meant by the term “ghosts.” If the term means “spirit beings,” the answer is a qualified “yes.” If the term means “spirits of people who have died,” the answer is “no.” The Bible makes it abundantly clear that there are spirit beings, both good and evil. But the Bible negates the idea that the spirits of deceased human beings can remain on earth and “haunt” the living. Hebrews 9:27 declares, “Man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.” That is what happens to a person’s soul-spirit after death—judgment. The result of this judgment is heaven for the believer (2 Corinthians 5:6-8; Philippians 1:23) and hell for the unbeliever (Matthew 25:46; Luke 16:22-24). There is no in-between. There is no possibility of remainin...

Add nutmeg – just a little – it adds a depth to the potatoes that people won’t recognize, but will definitely like. This is true of virtually every potato dish.

  Throw in a tomato branch – the branch contains all of the flavor that we love in tomatoes – pick a leaf and smell it and you will see what I mean. Simply throw in a small stick of the tomato plant and it will give your cooked tomatoes a much stronger tomato flavor.

When stewing meat, throw in a star anise – you can’t taste the aniseed but the flavor adds a deep richness to the meat. This is a trick used in all meat dishes by Heston Blumenthal the owner of the Fat Duck (3 Michelin stars) – voted the world’s best restaurant for three years in a row. I would suggest finding a recipe for the first time you use this trick just so you have the right amount of everything and don't end up ruining an entire pot of deliciousness ^_^    Star anise- A star-shaped, dark brown pod that contains a pea-size seed in each of its eight segments. Native to China, star anise comes from a small evergreen tree. It's flavor is slightly more bitter than that of regular anise seed. Asian cooks use star anise to give a licorice flavor to savory dishes, particularly those with pork and poultry. It's available whole or ground and is an ingredient in Chinese five-spice powder. Use it sparingly--a little goes a long way. Available year-round (and...

So here is a destination I came across a little while ago that I definitely wouldn't mind going to see one day when I begin my world travels :) The Crooked Forest is a grove of oddly shaped pine trees located outside the village of Nowe Czarnowo, in western Poland. The forest contains about 400 pine trees that grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks. All of the trees are bent northward and surrounded by a larger forest of straight-growing pine trees. The crooked trees were planted around 1930 when the area was inside the German province of Pomerania. It is thought that the trees were formed with a human tool, but the method and motive for creating the grove is not currently known. It appears that the trees were allowed to grow for seven to ten years before being held down and warped by a device. The exact reason why the Germans would want to make crooked trees is unknown, but many people have speculated that they were going to be harvested for ...