My afternoon was spent doing two exciting things:
1) Booking a flight to Boston for July 17th to visit Larbs + Matt!!!! (I got a frequent flyer from my Africa trip, but this time Matt is coming too!)
2) Studying in the hammock in the sunshine
I cannot promise that I didn’t take a little cat nap today!! Foodservice was boring.
‘Round 5:00 I got a little hungry and came in to search for a snack. I found myself dipping into the PB jar!!
Since I was obviously craving PB, I decided to make a snack out of it with this Zbar:
I’m not the biggest fan of the Chocolate Brownie, but it was good with PB.
Dinner tonight was pushed back due to lack of hunger.
But when it was time (‘round 7pm) we centered it around this new Napa Valley Bistro sauce by Mezzetta! Made with Napa Valley wine, all natural ingredients, no preservatives, and San Marzano tomatoes, I had high expectations. Well they were met! We opened the Homemade Style Marinara and it was perfectly sweetened by ripe tomatoes. Loved it! FYI, they are also holding a “Make That Sandwich” contest – and the winner gets $25 grand and a trip to Napa Valley! I’ll definitely be entering come summertime.
On the menu: Calzones!
While we cooked, I had a few sips of this newest Old Man Drink (I think it’s his best post yet!)
The Love Ducks had some sips too!!
Matt whipped up some of his whole wheat pizza crust and rolled it into 2 small and 1 big circles:
I sauteed some kale for the filling and then chopped it –
The filling was about a cup of Mezzetta sauce, about half a pound (raw) of sauteed kale with salt and pepper, and capers.
Spread on and topped with a thin layer of goat cheese, some feta crumbles and a small amount of mozzarella
Folded and sliced
Into the oven…
Eat!
It was delicious! Our only complaint was that the cheese turned rather ricotta-y on us and we do not like ricotta!! Would have been better with a huge stuffing of mozzarella, but then again, this cheese kept it lighter. These were about 400 calories each (I did the math because otherwise I would have eaten on this size:
The crust was the best part! He put herbs and sundried tomatoes in it 
I had a little extra kale on the side –
Shroom News
I can’t remember if I shared the recipe on the Mushroom Channel for the Shroom + Bean Burgers?
And here’s the latest one – a borrow from the KERF sidebar – Mushroom + Butternut Squash Risotto that I made with steel cut oats.
And I just stumbled across this – another recipe contest! Mushrooms Every Day, Every Way Recipe Contest. With 4 categories, I think that’s a pretty good chance to win! I’ll be thinking up something for this one as well.
Off to bed!
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Oh my! Your dinner looks delicious! I totally want to make now!
Wowzers! I wish that would pop out of my oven soon!
lol
Those calzones look delicious!
How long will you be in Boston? What plans will you guys have? I live an hour outside of the city and get in there as often as I can get! I just love good old Beantown
Lots of contests Kath!! Those Calzones look really great! Very interesting filling… would love to try it
zest!
You are so lucky to have a bread baker and beer maker as a husband! Dinner looks awesome!
Yum, love calzones!
And the marinara sauces look good, too! Glad you liked it!
That calzone crust looks good! The crust is always my favorite part
Love the Love Ducks!
Jennifer,
For a long weekend – there will definitely be another blog meet-up planned. More details in July!
K
Those look awesome — I’ve seen calzones on menus before but never tried one!
wow! Those calzones look delish!
hope you’re having a good night
How exciting – Boston – I’ve always wanted to go there! The pizza crust looks GREAT. Does Matt have his recipe posted anywhere?
Sounds like a productive, enjoyable afternoon. Those calzones look amazing! You and Matt amaze me with your creativity at mealtime!
Sounds like you already have a lot of projects and plans for the summer. Those contests sound like great ideas… I sure think you’d have an excellent chance of winning
Dinner looks amazing!
What a great day you had! ANd holy deliciousness…that calzone. YUM!
Wow that meal looks sooo good! Plus mint juleps?! Even better!
You’re going to Boston? Awesome! Maybe I’ll run into you guys.
And you totally went all out with that dinner. Way to live on the edge, haha.
OMG calzones! If you whip up something like that, you’ll definitely be going to Napa!
I wonder what the chocolate brownie zbar would taste like on top of oats. I wonder if it would get all melty and chocolate chippy. Hmmm….
Hey Kath! I tried one of your recipes this weekend and posted about it on my blog. I thought you might like to check it out.
http://fullofbeansblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/oatmeal-bars.html
Those ducks are definitely husband/wife
I love watching duck couples.
The calzones look fab! And you make it look so easy!
That is the best dinner I’ve seen on here! I’m hungry again. Yay for a blog meet-up!
We had “oops-idental” calzones last night (our friend Matt acidentally flipped the pizza onto itself when he transferred it to the pizza stone) – but your filling definitely looks tastier!
Yay for trips to Boston! Be sure to visit the ‘Make Way For Ducklings’ sculptures…. you know… to make yourselves feel at home
I think calzones count as a sandwich…you should enter these in that recipe contest. Add mushrooms and you can kill two birds with one stone!
“Kill two birds,” says the vegetarian. Tsk. Tsk.
WE NEED TO PLAN A BLOGGER MEET UP FOR WHEN YOU COME TO BOSTON!!
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I will only eat the Chocolate Brownie flavored if it’s warmed up!
those calzones look great, I love how you two cook together so often!
Yum!
You have inspiring meals!
Question for you….How do you insert a link and then have it show up as something other than the address? For example, you linked to the pasta sauce, but it didn’t appear in the form of “http://www”. Am I making sense? Ugh. Figuring out how to blog is a difficult task!
Dough, cheese and sauce – these are a few of my favorite thiiiiings!
Calzones!!! HOW Brilliant that you guys truly made ‘em from scratch! I made pizza with my boyfriend for dinner but we totally cheated and bought our dough from Trader Joe’s!!! hahahah It was still delicious though..
Just like you, I’m a biiiiiig fan of delicious crust.
WOW – those Calzones are some serious food porn – they look amazing! Homemade dough too – yum! Soooo jealous, but, at least you use sauce from Napa Valley – I know it’s the best
Good luck on the mushroom contest – I might have to ponder something now too
I can never get into calzones but these look really good with the wheat dough.
YAY Boston!!!
This looks freaking amazing! Kath, you’re one of my fav food bloggers because you eat so healthfully yet you eat ENOUGH to fuel your active lifetsyle, and don’t freak out on indulging once in a while. This is a totally unrelated question, but I was just wondering what is your opinion on shiratake noodles? You know, those tofu noodles that are endorsed by Hungry Girl and many food bloggers out there?
Those calzones look fantastic!!
Hoooray for planning a trip to see your sister!!
Beautiful calzones! I’ll have to add these to our dinner plans in the next couple weeks!
The calzones look delicious! I’ve never thought of putting kale on pizza or in a calzone before.
Please keep us posted on your Boston trip and if you have time to do a dinner or something. I’m about 45 minutes from the city and think it would be great to meet up with some other bloggers as well.
Yay for a trip to Boston! If you have extra time, and have an interest in meeting some of us Bostonians, it would fun to arrange a meet-up
The calzones look amazing, and I love that they were a combined effort. The herbed pizza dough sounds fantastic – my fiance needs to take a few lessons from Matt!
I think you meant to say: “Booking a flight to Boston for July 17th to visit Larbs + Matt! and Tina + Mal!!!”
Mmmm! Calzones are so delicious!
Those calzones look absolutely amazing and delicious! I am not a big fan of the chocolate brownie Zbar either. I just tried it the other day and wasn’t impressed. Are the other flavors better?
i love calzones! I bet they were super tasty with kale in them; I put kale on a pizza once in the sauce and it was awesome!
Laying in the sun studying must have been so wonderful! Yesterday was such a gorgeous day here too but unfortunately I was stuck at my desk.
Those calzones looks so good! I love to see the creation in picture stages as you did!
Yum! I love calzones and strombolis. I’m taking a bread baking class tonight and sausage and spinach calzones are on the menu.
LOVE DUCKS! I haven’t seen my pair lately – hope they’re still around! What fantastic calzones!
There will definitely be a Boston Blog Meet-up!!
Elizabeth + Sarah,
LOL!
Brooke ,
Highlight the text and push the hyperlink button – then past the www. address in there.
Michelle T,
There is no shame in store-bought dough! If I wasn’t married to a baker, I’d use it too!
Sophia ,
I’ve seen those before, but I haven’t ever really wanted to try them. They seem like a wholesome enough food to me – I just hope they’d taste good!
tina ,
Yes, yes! Sorry!!
RK ,
Yes, the Choco brownie is the worst. I love the honey graham. It is better heated up though.
K
I just tried a mint julep for the first time last week on my trip to Georgia! It was my first time in the south and I figured when in rome…..
That looks amazing! I’ve made calzones before, but I always end up trying to stuff them too full and they don’t close properly. Yours look much better.
Looks delicious! Thanks for the idea, too — I think I’ll add this to my freezer dining menu and see if it freezes/reheats well.
Was that a bag of Doritos in the background? Common you can’t eat healthy all the time. It takes a lot of planning. We must know where do you hide the Oreo’s?
Hmmmm, calzones.
Larkin,
No, no Doritos here. Which photo?
Kath
LOVE the calzone recipe/demo, i will for sure be trying these. thank you!