For our #1 Fan… aka Mom

 I swear it hasn’t felt like 6 months since I last posted to this blog, but as I am reminded on our weekly calls with my parents, nothing new has been posted for quite some time. This hasn’t meant an end to new and interesting food in this house, just a seasonal reprieve due to sunny weather, weddings and a little bit of being lazy. Of late I have been utilizing the library as my main source of new recipe ideas and am often with at least 4 cookbooks out at any given time. This method is practical for the wallet and helps to avoid dud cookbooks with only 1 or 2 interesting recipes.

To kick things off again I am going to post about a calzone recipe I thought up the other week utilizing the leftovers from thanksgiving. The recipe is broken down into 3 parts. First is the Tomato Chutney I envisioned as the base, replacing the traditional pizza sauce. I found the recipe on Jamie Oliver’s website. My only qualm with this recipe is that it ended up being rather sweet, so I only added a tablespoon of the chutney to each calzone to avoid overpowering the other flavours.

 

Next I took 2 leeks and slowly sautéed them in 2 tbsp of buttter for 25 minutes until they were soft and creamy.

Last I made the pizza dough*, and assembled 2-3 tbsp of leek, 1 tbsp of chutney, a small handful of leftover thanksgiving turkey and a grating of emmental cheese and folded over the pizza dough. After baking for 15 min at 475 degrees the calzones were done and along with a side spinach salad dinner was served!

 

Note*: Dough recipe is enough to make 8 calzones. I froze half and made 4 for this recipe.