Showing posts with label calzones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label calzones. Show all posts

Monday, August 10, 2009

Calzones

As the tomatoes start to come in from the CSA in large quantities and my romas keep right on producing, a good option is always sauce. At first I am always a little disappointed with making my own sauce but as with many things it takes patience. The longer you let it simmer the better it becomes. I don't really have a recipe so much as I throw in the tomatoes and garlic which are a necessity and then add what sounds good from there. I did a double batch to use up some tomatoes and decided calzones would be delicious and froze the other half.

I had some dough left in the freezer from the last batch of pizzas and made two of these beauties.
I know you are wondering... what is in this yummy looking pocket of dough. Well besides the obvious sauce and mozzarella, I put sauteed onions and mushroom and SHRIMP. I know I told you I love shrimp. I have been making these mini shrimp calzones for a while now. The original idea came from Giada De Laurentiis. The filling in the original is more shrimp and tomatoes and wine than shrimp and sauce but I enjoy a saucy calzone so it evolved. These are not really mini but that's what Giada calls them so I stick with it.
It's hard to see the shrimp but I promise they are in there. Yum