Favorite kitchen disasters 2: "I once put in way too much..."--what?

Favorite kitchen disasters 2: "I once put in way too much..."--what?
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Nutmeg in baked potatoes. I was trying to make Otik’s Spiced potatoes from the Dragon Lance novels , but didn’t have the recipe.
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