14/365: Improvisation

Calzones....yum. This was one of the first recipes that I tried from the PW cookbook. The first was her pizza. My husband liked it so much that he insisted we have pizza two nights in a row. I made a double batch of the pizza dough so I used the other half of it for calzones.

I'm not going to lie, I was very concerned about these. The recipe involved division. I had to divide both the dough and the filling into eight parts. I'm pretty good at division on paper but not so much when it comes to food. I had a significant amount of filling left over so that had me concerned.

I popped the pan in the oven and tried to wait patiently for the calzones to be done. Fifteen minutes later, I opened my oven to find that they were not cooking. The calzones were not golden brown as promised. I'll be honest, I was not too surprised. You see, my oven is ridiculous. For starters, the oven dial has no numbers on it so I am always guessing as to what temperature the oven is actually at. I figured that the temperature was lower than recommended so I would just leave them in a little longer. A few minutes later and no golden brown calzones. I noticed that the bottoms were turning a deep brown, while the top was barely cooking at all. That prompted me to notice only the lower coil in the oven was on. This was very annoying, but I was not going to be deterred by my ridiculous oven. I flipped the calzones over and began to put them in the oven only to notice the bottom coil was no longer burning a bright orange-ish red. The top coil was bright orange, however. Flipped 'em back over and all was well just a few minutes later. Thank goodness!