Sunday, November 16, 2008

Calzone

All we do is make white bread dough. You could buy it at the store, but it's cheaper to make it. Then we brown a package of sausage. Roll the dough out into a large rectangle. Spread the sausage down the middle of the dough and top with 1 cup of mozzarella. Fold it all up so that it looks like a "log"! :) Bake for 25 min. at 350 or until the top is golden brown. Cut into slices and serve with a jar of pizza sauce (warmed up)! It's incredibly cheap and we just eat a salad with it! Yummy!
-Kami Hopkins

When I made it, I used a pizza crust recipe (below) that I got from a lady from our church in Griswold, when we ministered there. I also made them into individual logs so we didn't slice them, we just held them in our hands and dipped into the sauce. They were yummy! My kids liked them, too. Thanks Kami!

Pizza Crust
1 1/4c. water
1 pkg. yeast
3 T. oil
3 T. honey
4 c. flour
1 tsp. salt

Mix water and yeast. Add oil and honey. Add flour. Knead about 3 min. (You may add one more cup of flour if needed.) Let raise about 25 min. Roll out and bake at 500 degrees for 5 min. (When baking the pizza crust follow these instructions. For the calzone, I followed the calzone recipe.)

2 comments:

Karen said...

Sounds so yummy, but I STINK at making bread or dough or pizza crust, or anything that resembles those lines. Any good tips??? You both make it sound so easy!

Rebecca said...

I wish I had a good tip, but I don't. I had stopped making that pizza crust because as much as I have had success with it, I have had failure as well. II have even tried to make calzones with it before and Kirk didn't like it, but with Kami's recipe I thought I would try it again. I don't know what specific problems you are experiencing, but the first time I made them, I thought that there was too much bread - so I rolled them thinner this last time and it worked well. I may try and make one big one next time too. Another thing I liked about Kami's recipe is that she used sausage, which gives it a great flavor and she used a dipping sauce. I don't think I answered your question, but I think you should just try it one more time....