Meatball Hot Pockets
Well it is Thursday already. The days just keep flying by. Actually this month has flown by. This is the last day of school this week for the girls. It is teacher conference time again so no school tomorrow. I think I may get just as excited about them being home as they do. LOL
We will have to decided how to spend our extra time. I will also have to think up something for us to cook. I try to make meals that take longer and they can help with when they have no school. Last time we created a meatball hot pocket type thing.
I always freeze containers of any leftover sauces for just such on the spot creations. We had a package of meatballs and a container of leftover spaghetti sauce in the freezer so we tried to create something with them. These are the times when I love that James overstocks the pantry so I have a lot of things ready when I want to come up with ideas.
We had meatballs, mozzarella cheese and sauce so I thought about making meatball bombers but we had no bread. Then I thought that the kids might want to make homemade bread. If we were going to make homemade bread we might as well go all the way and make a hot pocket calzone kind of thing. So we made a double batch of pizza dough and let it rise.
The girls love rolling out their little dough balls and filling them so we make calzones and pasties a lot. With those it is thin crust and then a thicker pinched crust to the side and I did not want that. I wanted them to turn out more like a meatball bomber with a bun, but closed up. So we rolled the dough out like a big thin tortilla and wrapped up the filling like a burrito. I stretched the dough so it would be able to go around two times. That way the likelihood of it opening would be less and it would have bread around it evenly.
We baked them at 350 for probably 25 minutes until they got brown. Some of them did start to lose some sauce out of the side but I am glad we did it that way. The dough was nice and thick and chewy like fresh baked buns. The girls loved them. Well until Nicole found that the sauce I used had mushrooms in it so she kept picking out mushrooms. LOL
Hmmm I will have to dig through the pantry tomorrow and find some fun things to make this weekend. I love making stuff with homemade bread. I do not know why people are so afraid of it. It really is easy and the flavor can't be beat.
We will have to decided how to spend our extra time. I will also have to think up something for us to cook. I try to make meals that take longer and they can help with when they have no school. Last time we created a meatball hot pocket type thing.
I always freeze containers of any leftover sauces for just such on the spot creations. We had a package of meatballs and a container of leftover spaghetti sauce in the freezer so we tried to create something with them. These are the times when I love that James overstocks the pantry so I have a lot of things ready when I want to come up with ideas.
We had meatballs, mozzarella cheese and sauce so I thought about making meatball bombers but we had no bread. Then I thought that the kids might want to make homemade bread. If we were going to make homemade bread we might as well go all the way and make a hot pocket calzone kind of thing. So we made a double batch of pizza dough and let it rise.
The girls love rolling out their little dough balls and filling them so we make calzones and pasties a lot. With those it is thin crust and then a thicker pinched crust to the side and I did not want that. I wanted them to turn out more like a meatball bomber with a bun, but closed up. So we rolled the dough out like a big thin tortilla and wrapped up the filling like a burrito. I stretched the dough so it would be able to go around two times. That way the likelihood of it opening would be less and it would have bread around it evenly.
We baked them at 350 for probably 25 minutes until they got brown. Some of them did start to lose some sauce out of the side but I am glad we did it that way. The dough was nice and thick and chewy like fresh baked buns. The girls loved them. Well until Nicole found that the sauce I used had mushrooms in it so she kept picking out mushrooms. LOL
Hmmm I will have to dig through the pantry tomorrow and find some fun things to make this weekend. I love making stuff with homemade bread. I do not know why people are so afraid of it. It really is easy and the flavor can't be beat.
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