who needs cheese?

[rivers_bend]

For lunch today I made dairy-free calzones, two different kinds. And I took lots of pictures, because I was so pleased with having enough space to actually COOK.

I did one of them with spinach, leeks, and chicken. It was tasty, but needs more pepper and salt next time, and maybe a little garlic. I cooked down one heaped tablespoon of chopped frozen leek and a large handful of fresh baby spinach leaves with a good grating of nutmeg, and then chopped it coarsely, added a palm-full of leftover roast chicken and chopped that in with the veggies.



Then I patted out the dough, added pizza sauce and the topping.



Then fold, and onto the pizza stone which I decided I should get in honor of having an oven for the first time in ages!



The second one is peperoni and roasted pepper & artichoke heart tapenade. Then after about 25 minutes (on 425°F), out it came and om nom nom.





I was going to make something else nice for dinner, but I still have most of the peperoni calzone left, so I might have that with some carrots and humous. It will be good to see if these are good cold anyway, because if they are, I could make them as a thing to take for lunch once I start working. I don't like microwaved bread things, so heating such items up doesn't generally work unless there's a toaster oven.

I was going to do some more writing today. I am currently working on an MCR fic, a Teen Wolf fic, and a 1D fic. Like you do /o\ But instead I unpacked lots of boxes. Also went to the gym and cooked. I did not find my stamps though, so I really need to go find someplace to buy some so I can mail in my voter registration. Even in thirteen years of living in another country, I never missed an election. I am FOR. SURE. not missing this one just because of bad timing on my part.

Comments

[cameron willson (from livejournal.com)]

Yay! Loved the recipes although I WILL add cheese! LOL! Such a cheese fiend! I think I'll try swiss with the chicken/spinach one!

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

cheese really DOES NOT love me at the moment, so I was thrilled to find they taste just as good (to me anyway) without :D I bet swiss would be a good choice for that though.

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

NOM NOM NOM!!!

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

They were SUPER GOOD. Need to get the dough thinner next time, but otherwise, NOM INDEED. :D

[isweedan]

Dude dude dude. When I was in NOLA late last week I got a calzone the size of my FACE. I think there was an entire BLOCK of cheese in it. And then ricotta on top of that... /dreamy eyes

But your cheesless calzone-a-ma-bobs look very nice! Did you make the dough or is it readymade? I am cuuuurious. When I did calzones in the waffle iron I used jiffy mix *g* but when I made meat pies I used canned biscuit dough. (And today I made focaccia from scratch! RANGE OF DOUGHS \o/)

Also: CONGRATS ON HAVING AN OVEN. OVENS ARE MY FAVORITE. OR POSSIBLY WAFFLE IRONS.

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

The dough is the dough in a bag from Trader Joe's. I have made my own in the past, and also used mix you just add water to, but TJs is the easiest! I have never tried canned biscuit dough though. For pizza or biscuits. I did fine with my toaster oven in my last place, for the most part, but really suffered because I only had 2' of counter space. now I have all the counter, and all the oven! I can bake all the (dairy-free) things! \o/

I did give away my waffle iron though. I hadn't used it in 3 years. Though I pretty often used my mom's when I was at her house. Because I LOVE waffles. Just. I didn't really love my waffle iron.

[isweedan]

&Counterspace;

Three, two, one, ....Bake! /#gbbo

[wendy.livejournal.com]

We gotta get together some day and COOK!

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

YES. ALL THE COOKING. :D :D :D

[tabularassa.livejournal.com]

Looks so yum!

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

It was good. and good cold, too ♥

[desfinado.livejournal.com]

YUMMM oh man homemade calzones: magic. Yours look incredible!

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I made them for the first time at Blue's place, and had to try them again!

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Irish people who don't live in Ireland aren't actually allowed vote there. I've only recently become aware of how weird the country is in that respect! I can't vote out the feckers who messed the place up so bad I have to leave! Of course, it's Irish politics and therefore there is not really anyone viable better to vote for...

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I did not know that! Huh.

and I'm not totally sure there are great options here, though I love Obama as a man, I am sure there are people with political ideas that more echo my own.

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

MMMMMMMMM THOSE LOOK SO DELICIOUS. Also this election you get to vote for MARRIAGE EQUALITY in Washington! IT IS EXCITING AND ALSO KIND OF TERRIFYING.

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I feel so burned by the whole prop 8 thing in California, but it is better (for my mental health at least) if we're voting to make it legal, not voting to say it can never be legal and it's sick and wrong. That is exciting though!