Showing posts with label Dinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dinner. Show all posts

Friday, March 13, 2009

The Farmer's Pocket

We've all made a pizza before, but what about one of those triangle crust filled, gooey pockets, also known as calzones? Here's one all the farmers, and those who buy their crops, will enjoy.

Slice 2 cups of mushrooms. Combine with 3 cups of fresh baby spinach and 3 tablespoons of chopped garlic in a skillet with olive oil over low heat. Sauté until veggies are soft. Also dice 2 cups of tomatoes, 1/2 cup of artichoke hearts, and have 1/4 cup of capers, and 1 branch of fresh rosemary picked from stem, ready.


Roll pizza dough onto greased cooking sheet. Divide into 2 triangles.


On one side of each triangle, top with 1/4 cup of pizza/pasta sauce and 1/4 cup of mozzarella cheese.


Place sautéed veggies, plus diced tomatoes, artichoke hearts, capers, and rosemary on top of cheese and sauce.


Top veggies with another layer of 1/4 cup mozzarella cheese.


Fold the untouched dough over the top of the veggies, cheese, and sauce and fold edges over one another to prevent leakage. Sprinkle a small mound of cheese with a few capers on the top of the triangle.


Bake in preheated oven at 375 degrees F for 15 minutes. 

While washing the few dishes this creation took to make, listen to a classic song about a different kind of pocket:


Once the quarter of a hour is up, remove, let cool for just a couple minutes and sink your teeth into this folded up pizza.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Flat Tire Salad

In honor of one of my rear tires being flat to the ground after coming out of the office at work today, I prepared myself my very own flat tire salad.


With the help of one of my favorite fruits, that also looks surprisingly like my tire this afternoon, deflated grapes, a.k.a. raisins, are the key ingredient to this healthy dinner plate.

Combine the following:

2 cups baby spinach
4 grape tomatoes sliced in half

















1/2 fuji apple sliced

1/4 cup raisins
















Top with 5 tablespoons of basalmic vinegar



Your final result should look something like this:
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While creating...

Your little fingers will be busy the whole time making this plate, so listen to The Achievement. Not only will they put a smile on your face, but heck, they even come from the city that probably grew the fruits and veggies you're enjoying, Salinas, California.