Calzones Cooling
These calzones had to be the biggest, fullest and tastiest calzone I had ever eaten. Oozing cheese and a little filling, making the inside of the kitchen smell like a pizzeria and causing all 10 of our mouths to water.
Stuffed & Ready to Bake
Slicing the Calzones
Saturday night was the Supper 8 group meeting. Here’s a link to one of my previous posts where I talk about what Supper 8 is.
Serving Ourselves
Pre-Dinner Talk
Patty, who was our hostess, had a hankering for calzones so that’s what we ate. My contribution was cocktails and a salad.
I had a bottle of vodka that I had infused with blood oranges about a month ago when they were in season. In looking for ways to use it, I found the Blood Orange Cosmo on several websites so I went with that.
Cosmo Makings
The morning of the party, I combined the blood orange juice with the vodka (the Sky Vodka bottle is filled with blood orange infused vodka), fresh lime juice, simple syrup and a splash? of unsweetened cranberry juice. All the recipes said “splash”…..not how big a splash, just splash.
Cosmos in a Pitcher
When I got to the party, all I had to do was fill my cocktail shaker with ice, pour in the pre-prepared Cosmo mixture and shake, shake and strain into some martini glasses and garnish with an orange wheel.
They were so good. Even Larry who usually has just a glass of wine had two of them and asked for a third (but they were long gone by then).
Shaken with Ice and Garnished
Our Salad
I made a salad using greens, chevre, toasted walnuts and sautéed pear slices. The pear slices were dipped in sugar and then fried briefly in butter. This added a hint of sweet that went so well with the chevre & walnuts.
Sautéing the Pear Slices
Sauteed Pears Cooling
This was dressed with a walnut oil vinaigrette. Perfect with the calzones.
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