Sour Dough Bread

 This recipe is really simple

2½ C. Flour

1 C. Sour dough starter

½ C. Warm water

½ T. Sugar

½ tsp. Salt

Mix everything together and knead for 5 minutes. Grease a bread pan with ½ T. Olive Oil, and punch down sour dough into bread pan so it forms to the bread pan. Cover the bread with ½ T. Olive oil so that the top is covered. Cover the pan with saran wrap and let it rise for 12 hours, this will help produce a better sour dough flavor. Bake at 400° F for 45 minutes and then turn off oven and let bread sit in the oven for 15 more minutes. Let cool and cut into slices. 

-Colossus

Sour Dough starter

    Growing up my grandpa always made sour dough pancakes and bread every Sunday. The starter I use now is the starter he uses so it has some good age behind it. There are a couple of ways to get a starter,
1. Inherit a starter
2. Ask a local bakery for some starter(i.e. Great Harvest)
3. Make one from scratch or from a mail order starter(i.e. Carl's Starter)

If you decide to make your own I would suggest going here and following the directions. There is tons of how to's out there and if you find one that works better for you than go with it. One suggestion I will give is if your sour dough starter needs more flavor try feeding it with some whole wheat flour to make it more sour and feed it white flour to keep it at the flavor you want. Good luck and Ill post my sour dough recipe here.
-Colossus

BBQ Sauce

This is my personal recipe for BBq sauce. This BBQ sauce goes great on any meat whether it goes in the slow cooker or on the grill it is a great recipe. The recipe is as follows

1 C. Ketchup(or you can try substituting with tomato sauce)
4 T. Brown Sugar(you can substitute with white sugar if needed)
4 T. Worcestershire sauce
2 T. Balsamic vinegar
2-4 Dashes of Tabasco sauce
2 tsp. Garlic powder
2 tsp. Mustard powder
1/2 tsp. Salt
 2 tsp. Onion powder
2 tsp. Minced onion
2 tsp. Pepper
2 tsp. Paprika
2 tsp. chili powder
1/2 C. Water

Mix all the ingredients together and apply liberally to favorite meats.
-Colossus

Epic Worlds Engine

A good friend of mine has started a Kickstarter project for a Role-Playing game he has created. His game is called Epic Worlds Engine or EWE for short. In EWE it allows you the freedom of creating your own worlds and to balance them as you please. The power of this creation gives the DM(Dungeon Master) power to create classes that pertain to the world created and also enemies that are customized to that world. As the player you are able to adjust what things your character can do with the set dice pools. You can create your own attack names and what they do as  long as the DM deems them fit. The different dice pools will fit a lot of different attack ideas and effect ideas, which most games have preset attacks and powers. I will post a link to his Kickstarter page and also the website so you can read up more about the game.

Website
Kickstarter

-Colossus

The Best Crockpot Chili

If you love chili as much as I do than this recipe is the one for you. Just follow the simple recipe below along with using the chili seasoning recipe and you will have your very own chili.

1 8oz can corn

1 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes

1 8oz can tomato sauce

1 jar of favorite salsa

1 pound dried beans soaked over night or 1 Large can of beans

1 pound browned ground beef

1/2 medium onion

2 cloves garlic

1 T. chili seasoning mixed with 1 T. cold water

Mix all of the above together in crock pot and let cook on high for 6-8 hours.

-Colossus

Chili Seasoning Recipe

This is my recipe for homemade Chili Seasoning that can be used in your own Chili recipe or the one I have posted. It is really simple and easy to make.

Colossus' Chili Seasoning
1/2 tsp cumin 

1/2 tsp red pepper flakes

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp Paprika

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Brown Sugar

1 T. corn starch

2 T. Flour

1 T. Chili Powder 

Mix 1 T. chili seasoning with 1 T. cold water and add to chili