I have yet to cook those waffles I've been talking about. I was going to do it Sunday but I woke up with a cheese craving and made myself cheese toasted sandwiches instead. What can you do...?
I did however make some more pizza dough. It took longer to make this time. I wonder if I got the water measurement wrong because for some reason I had to keep adding more and more flour. I let the dough rise for about 2 hours this time and got a nice large ball, which really needed a good twack to push the air out. Bakers really must have good stress relief. Ma made 2 pizzas for dinner and I used the leftover dough to make 2 huge calzone, which have served me as dinner for the last two days.
The calzone was so tasty. It pretty much had the same ingredients as the pizza, only the dough was folded over and sealed to make a big pocket of deliciousness. I stuffed in quite a lot. For awhile, I thought they were gonna be too fat. It had tomato paste, tomato sauce, mushrooms, tomato, some leftover beef from spaghetti bolognese and one calzone had cheese. I brushed the top with olives oil and Ma sprinkled a bunch of thyme and oregano over. Can't you just imagine how good they smelled? Dough and spices filled with pizza stuffing... drool now or forever hold your tongue.... I baked 'em with the pizza and stored them in the fridge.
Okay, so it doesn't look particularly beautiful here especially not against my retro plate. Actually, it looks kinda pasty. This is the not quite as good looking calzone. It has a few holes. But don't let it's exterior fool you. It is tasty. It really does look huge when you compared it to the size of your plate. Now you can also compare it to the size of my belly for it is gone. That is it for doughy delights for this week. Tomorrow I'm back to stirfries. I need a good plate of fried vegies. Labels: home-cooking, Italian |
