What Weber's Ate Wednesday

I envy all the girls who got cute on Wednesday.  I don't consider myself a fashion person at all.  When I put on a necklace Nathan is like, "Whoa." And I want to take it off because I feel weird.

So, instead of showing you "What I Wore Wednesday", I had the idea to take pictures while I cooked our dinner on Wednesday.
I didn't wear anything too special.  It was snowing out, so I just put on something warm and sloppy, and cooked. :)

See, warm and sloppy, with some flour on it.

Nathan and I had our valentine lunch at a cute little Italian place the other day (And actually, I did wear a yellow belt that day.  I should have taken a picture).
I got a salad with a light lemon vinaigrette.  So good of me.  Nathan got this awesome Chicken, Feta, Artichoke calzone.  I decided immediately that I would try to make that calzone.

So here is the picture story of that process:

1 Chopped purple onion.

I used ground turkey instead of chicken.  We don't eat a lot of meat around here, but the girls cry when I try to make a squash calzone.  Sometimes Nathan cries too.  So, I give them meat in a calzone.

I've thrown in the onion, ground turkey, a few cloves of garlic, dried parsley, oregano, and a tiny bit of salt.  The cheese we add later will be salty too, so we take it easy on the salt here.

Cook that all up, drain it, and let it cool.

 Oh, and we have a handy bread machine.  My mother-in-law got it for me a few years ago and it makes life more fun.

Lola makes life more fun too.

So,while we cheat and the dough makes itself, I finish mixing into the cooled meat...

1 cup of cottage cheese

1 cup of parmesan

about 4 oz. crumbled feta

1 can of drained, chopped artichokes

AH! I just realized I forgot my frozen chopped spinach.  That would have made our calzones even better.

Darn.  Well, if you remember, squeeze the liquid out of your frozen, chopped spinach (thawed) and mix that in too.

By then, mayhaps my dough is finished making itself.

If you don't have a bread machine or a favorite pizza dough recipe.  I found one here  from Bobby Flay.  It is nearly identical to the one I make in my machine, but he gives you the non-machine steps. And I use half whole wheat flour and half bread flour.

I pinch my dough glob in half, pinch those halves in half, and so on, until my 2lbs. of dough becomes 8 balls of dough.

I roll them out, and scoop in a heaping 1/2 cup of turkey-cheese mixture.

Fold that over and try to seal the edges closed.  You may need to brush edges with water or egg/water mixture to kind of glue it closed.
Stab it with a fork a few times.
Lay them on a foil lined and greased baking sheet.

Bake at 450 for 15 minutes.  They should be golden and a bit crunchy with wonderful artichoke juices bubbling out.

Once finished, I cut them in half, warmed some marinara for dipping, and we went crazy.  I didn't even take a picture of the finished product because we went so crazy.
It is delicious!  Throughout the meal the girls were thanking me, just profusely.  It was a lovely evening.

All Riley's life she claims to hate everything about artichokes, and I joy in sneaking them into food.  She ate her whole calzone and then noticed a smidgen of artichoke on her plate.  "Were there artichokes in these?!"  I think she loves artichokes now.