Calzones!

Monday, September 3, 2007

Calzones are great because they are so easy to make and you can throw whatever you want in them! After making these the first time (thanks to inspiration from Jessica found here), we made them again for our big Midwest road trip. They were pretty good even cold out of a cooler.

Calzones
pizza dough – I’ve only used the canned kind and got 4 fairly large or 6 smaller calzones out of 1 can. I want to try to use some homemade dough sometime…
toppings of your choice

Varieties we have tried and LOVED:
Besto-Pesto – Inspiration for this guy came from the Sunset Grille‘s Besto-Pesto sandwich
Cooked chicken
Lots of pesto
Sauteed Mushrooms
Provolone cheese

Pulled Chicken w/ Bacon and Cheddar
Pulled chicken – I cooked chicken breasts in BBQ sauce for about 3 hours on Low then shredded the chicken
Bacon
Cheddar Cheese

Preheat oven according to directions on dough.

Roll the pizza dough out and cut into however many calzones you want to make (kitchen scissors work great for this!). Roll dough out.

Put some foil on a cookie sheet and spray with PAM or olive oil.

Place dough pieces on foil and spoon some topping onto 1/2 of each piece of dough.

Fold the dough over and be sure to seal it shut.

Bake according to directions on dough.

Main Meal, Poultry

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7 Responses to “Way to nerd that up…”

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Kristina — April 11, 2008 at 5:32 pm

Oh, if only there were a Trader Joes here *le sigh*
This post made me lol (literally) because my husband’s in the process of getting an Aeronautical Engineering degree 🙂
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CB — April 11, 2008 at 6:42 pm

OMG! thats freaking hilarious! Must show my other nerd friends…
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Erin — April 11, 2008 at 7:38 pm

Definitely showing “nerd” boyfriend this. He’ll probably run right over to Trader Joe’s after work. Great catch!
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Sheltie Girl — April 13, 2008 at 1:53 pm

This is too funny! I haven’t been to TJ’s in a while so I’ve missed the Avocado’s Magic Number. Great find and thanks for sharing!

Sheltie Girl @ Gluten A Go Go
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Lemon Tartlet — April 17, 2008 at 4:11 pm

That is so cute! No fair there’s no TJ here!
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gaga — April 17, 2008 at 7:38 pm

Haha, that IS pretty darn nerdy. What a great find!
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Yankee1969 — June 30, 2008 at 1:31 am

My non-nerd g/f sent this to me to see if I’d understand the reference. I’m an EE, so I started laughing as soon as I saw the picture. 🙂 Luckily, I’m used to her odd looks when I start chuckling over something geeky like that. 🙂