Rutter's Pizza & Calzone Roundup !

Pizza dough ready to rise.


Ingredients for the Potato Leek Pizza.



Dana busy cooking the leeks and homemade pizza sauce!

Pizza dough ready to be rolled out.

Calzone meat mixture cooking.

Meat lovers pizza fresh out of the oven!

Audrey prepping the pizza crust.

Potato Leek pizza ready to go in the oven.

Dana ready to take out the pizza :)

Dana showing off her pizza dough tossing skills!

Calzone cooking.

Dana's plate. Notice the healthy steamed broccoli :)

Audrey's plate.

What a lot of pictures. Hope that we aren't overwhelming you with them. We are just having such a good time cooking from this cookbook and our family has liked quite a few of the recipes. Well, I guess that I messed up with the recipes ;( I could have sworn that the recipe picks were the potato leek pizza & the cowboy calzone, so that is what we did. Dana & I are now ahead of everyone, since we prepared the calzone recipe :) The pictures pretty much show what we did. The pizza dough was a big hit! Everyone really liked it and it was very easy to make and work with, which was sooo nice. We decided to use our pizza stone and that worked out real well. It takes a little longer to cook several pizza's though. We cooked three pizza's, since there were 6 of us eating & 4 were guys :) We knew that some wouldn't like the potato leek pizza, so we also cooked a pepperoni & meat lovers(pepperoni, canadian bacon & italian sausage)pizza. We also cooked our own homemade pizza sauce for some of the pizzas & to use to dip the calzone in and it was also a big hit ! First we made the pizza dough, so that it could rise. Next came the pizza sauce and we simmered that while we prepped all the ingredients, then we started fixing the pizzas. Everything went smoothly till we tried to slide the Potato Leek pizza off of the wooden paddle onto the pizza stone. Didn't want to go. After a combined effort between Dana, Brock and I & our spatulas, we got it in! Next time, if we use the stone again, we will have to assemble the pizza after we get the crust onto the pizza stone. The potatoes made it somewhat heavy & moist. It wasn't as pretty as it was before we got it in the oven, but it tasted really good! Next came the Calzone. We assembled those very quickly, since we had the ingredients cooked and the cheese/egg mixture mixed together. We just used shredded mozzarella for the cheeses and cottage cheese for the ricotta, since our family doesn't care for ricotta cheese. They took longer to cook than the pizza's, so we did some clean up while they baked :) To make the three pizzas and the calzone, we used two batches of the pizza dough. Everyone liked the different pizza's and calzone. I liked both the pizza and the calzone, but my family would be happy with just the pizza's, though I thought the Calzone were very tasty. I think that I will make up some batches of the pizza dough and keep it in the freezer for future use. Good recipe picks Ingrid !!