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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14 Responses to “Chicken Pot Pie with Cream Cheese and Chive Biscuits”

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Shannon — March 25, 2013 at 3:20 pm
love your adaptations- and i agree, one-pot meals usually need more veggies!
- beantownbaker — March 25th, 2013 @ 3:44 pm
  
  Not that this meal is in any way healthy, but at least bumping up the veggies (and the servings) reduces the amount of pure indulgence per serving…
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Sues — March 25, 2013 at 3:37 pm
Love all the changes you made to this! And I agree- the more veggies, the merrier 🙂
- beantownbaker — March 25th, 2013 @ 3:45 pm
  
  Glad I’m not the only one!
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Megan — March 25, 2013 at 4:13 pm

I love that idea to just throw extra veggies in. I always have some leftover unused veggies going bad in the fridge after I’ve used some for a recipe. The biscuits on this look amazing.
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Wendy — March 25, 2013 at 10:13 pm
This looks rich and satisfying. I love the idea of biscuits on top rather than pie crust. Cream cheese chive biscuits sound especially delicious!
- beantownbaker — March 26th, 2013 @ 7:29 am
  
  I definitely plan to make these biscuits again some time. They’d be delicious even without the creamy pot pie filling under them.
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Nutmeg Nanny — March 26, 2013 at 10:36 am
I love the thought of throwing the extra veggies in, i think a lot of people are hesitant to do so. This looks so delicious and satisfying 🙂
- beantownbaker — March 26th, 2013 @ 8:16 pm
  
  Yea when it comes to cooking, I figure there’s no harm in playing with recipes. Baking is another story…
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Ashley Bee (Quarter Life Crisis Cuisine) — March 26, 2013 at 11:11 am
My boyfriend, who eats a good portion of the overall meals I cook plus leftovers, hates veggies. This is a problem, because I don’t like food going bad but I can’t eat it all myself. I love recipes like this because it’d probably be SO tasty, he’d hardly even notice the abundance of green. Or he’d pick the peas out. Who knows.
- beantownbaker — March 26th, 2013 @ 8:16 pm
  
  I can’t imagine hating veggies… But I agree, I think he’d hardly notice the veggies in this. It’s that creamy and delicious.
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scott — March 27, 2013 at 12:06 pm

This recipe looks delicious. Do you know the nutritional values? If you post it on http://www.myrecipemagic.com they will calculate it for you and you can get paid for posting recipes.
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Rachel @ Baked by Rachel — March 28, 2013 at 6:15 am
I love that you topped this off with biscuits instead of the traditional flaky crust!
- beantownbaker — March 28th, 2013 @ 6:53 am
  
  Biscuits are always the right answer 😉