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Recipe of the Week – Calzone
(From the Easy Recipes I Can Cook Collection at www.emealsforyou.com)
Calzone
I like the crust on pizza so it is a natural transition to calzone. These are, excuse me Tony at Aponte’s Pizza, folded pizzas. Just like pizza they are very good with any ingredients you wish to put inside. On this recipe I call for cheese and roasted red peppers. I used the ones in a jar from the grocery, but you can put cooked sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, onions whatever you would put on top of a pizza tucked inside. Use pizza sauce or any good store-bought tomato sauce that you like.
Served golden brown and steamy, right from the oven, they will give you an alternative to the pizza you usually serve. Your family will love them and you will appreciate the ease of preparation and clean up.
Calzone
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Easy Recipes I Can Cook |
| Meal: | N/A |
| 1 | recipe | pizza dough |
| 2 | cup | cheese, low-fat mozzarella |
| 4 | oz | peppers, red roasted |
| 4 | Tb | cheese, Romano, grated |
| 1.5 | cup | tomato sauce |
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut dough into four pieces, form into rounds. Roll dough into four small pizza sized disks. Divide cheese and red peppers evenly and place on half of each disk. Fold pizza dough over to form a half moon. Seal edges of dough together, cut an X into top and place in very hot oven until brown. Plate and spoon tomato sauce on top.
Recipe of the Week – Southern Baked Chicken Legs
(From The Cooking For the Kids Collection at emealsforyou.com)
Southern Baked Chicken Leg
They have done a number on us, well maybe me; you my still be a holdout. On the rare occasion when I break out the frying pan and oil a huge wave of guilt sweeps over me. We have been trained that frying is bad and sautéing is good. Anyway I don’t like how frying smells up my house so it was time to come up with a chicken recipe that was better for us and actually smelled good cooking.
I thought after the dessert trays last week I might come back down to earth and provide a recipe that your kids would love and even more importantly is easy to cook. Anyone who cooks has tried to come up with an alternative to the bucket of chicken. Not that there is anything wrong with an occasional stop in the fast food chicken huts, except that you can probably run a diesel truck off the oil you can wring from the napkins when you are done. We try and try to get just the right flavor and crunchiness and still have that great taste; all while baking instead for frying.
Here is my recipe for Southern Baked Chicken; this recipe works well for a nice dinner or served cold at a picnic. Picnic? You know when you take a plastic container of the chicken to the soccer game and have the rest of the kids, those not playing, eat on the side of the field.
Southern Baked Chicken Legs
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Cooking for the Kids |
| Meal: | N/A |
| 6 | medium | chicken legs |
| 0.5 | cup | flour |
| 1 | tsp | garlic powder |
| 1 | tsp | paprika, sweet |
| 0.5 | tsp | salt, table |
| 0.5 | tsp | pepper, fresh ground |
| 2 | medium | egg |
| 0.125 | tsp | salt, table |
| 0.125 | tsp | pepper, fresh ground |
| 0.75 | cup | breadcrumbs |
| 0.125 | tsp | salt, table |
| 0.125 | tsp | pepper, fresh ground |
Put flour, garlic powder, paprika, salt and pepper into a shallow bowl and mix. Beat eggs and add salt and pepper into another shallow bowl. In a third bowl mix breadcrumbs, salt and pepper. Dip the chicken legs into the flour mixture, making sure to cover the whole leg with flour. Shake off any loose flour. Dip the leg into the eggs and make sure to cover. Dip the legs in the breadcrumbs, place on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes, until the juices run clear when poked with a knife.
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