What is in Your Pocket?

You can't go wrong with this fun Friday night family meal.  Skip ordering the pizza and pack the family in the kitchen for a fun family cooking night making Calzones.  For those who are not familiar with Calzones, they're an oven-baked, folded pizza dough filled with your favorite pizza toppings or just about any fun "hot pocket" type of ingredients you can put inside a pocket pizza. 


We cheat and buy our pizza dough pre-made from the local pizza shop for $1.00 each.  Here's a tip, if you are going to buy it from your pizza shop, please keep it refrigerated until you're ready to roll out the dough.

We made three different Calzones; 

1) Ham & Cheddar Cheese
2) Peppers, Onions, Mushrooms, Garlic (sauteed) & Mozzarella Cheese
3) Italian Chicken, Roasted Red Pepper (homemade) & Mozzarella Cheese. 



Roll out your pizza dough, fill your shell, pull lid over your filling then crimp ends using a fork--place on lightly oiled baking pan. 

 Cut three small slices into the top of each clazone prior to baking in the oven at 400 degrees for 12- 15 minutes. 

Let your calzone (s) sit for about 5 minutes after you remove them from the oven--slice and enjoy!

We served our calzones with a marinara dipping sauce and a few cold Michelob ULTRA Beers. 

Yes, our calzones are inside a pizza box.  When you buy your pre-made dough from the pizza shop, they pack the wrapped dough inside a pizza box for transport.  We keep the box and reuse it to serve and store our calzones--easy clean up! 

We were not compensated by Michelob for this post.