Calzone Roll- Ups

These tasty entrees are perfect for lunches, party snacks, or dinner! Premade pizza dough makes them easy to prepare.

Calzone Roll-Ups
(From a forgotten website--kudos to the original creator, I'm sorry I lost your website!)


1 lb premade pizza dough (Winco has it for $1.48 or you can make your own)
1/2 c. chopped onion
1/2 c. sliced fresh mushrooms
1/2 c. green peppers, chopped
1/2 c. red peppers, chopped
1 tbs. olive oil
1/3 c. pizza sauce
1/2 c. diced pepperoni
1 c. shredded cheese, italian blend or mozzarella
1/4 c. black olives, chopped
2 tbs. Parmesan cheese, grated

Allow bread dough to come to room temperature. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface. Divide in half and allow to rest for 5 minutes.

In a small skillet, saute the onions and peppers in olive oil for 3-5 minutes. Add mushrooms for the final 2 minutes.

Roll each dough portion into a 16 by 10 inch rectangle. Spread with pizza sauce and top with the sauteed vegetables, diced pepperoni, chopped olives, and shredded cheese. Roll up the dough on the long side, pinching the edge to seal. Cut each roll into 12 slices.

Places the slices, cut side down, in two greased 9 inch circle pans. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

Cover and let rise for 30 minutes or until doubled in size. Bake at 375 degrees for 18-22 minutes or until golden brown.

Remove from pan to cool on a wire rack. After cooled, place on a cookie sheet in the freezer. Once frozen solid, place the rolls in a labeled gallon ziptop bag.

To serve, heat in the microwave for 2-3 minutes or place frozen in a lunchbag (it will defrost in time for lunch).

Fresh Fruit Cups

These delicious fruit cups are kept in the freezer until the night before or morning of. The ingredients are fresh, real fruit, and no extra sugar is added!

Fresh Fruit Cups
From Munchkin Mama at food.com


16oz strawberries frozen (thawed) or fresh
12oz pineapple orange juice, thawed
2-20oz pineapple (I use one can crushed and one can of tidbits)
2-11 oz cans mandarin orange segments
6 bananas, not too yellow, diced (I prefer to use three)
16oz frozen blueberries
1/3 c. lemon juice

Place all ingredients in a large bowl and gently stir to mix.

Fill 4oz plastic containers with the mix, then place them in the freezer. After the contents are frozen solid, all the containters go in a plastic shopping bag for easy keeping.

To serve, place in the refrigerator the night before or use as the cold pack in a lunch box. My kids LOVE these--and so do I!

The Final Meals

It has taken two days to prepare the last four recipes. I had hoped to be finished by Thursday, so these last recipes had to be worked around scheduled events.

But, I am done! Here are the last four recipes:

Chicken Empanadas (mini-size, for the kids' lunches)
Crispy Parmesan Chicken Strips (YUM! On of our favorite recipes!)
My Chicken Enchiladas
Lasagna (2 pans)

Well, almost done. Except for the last of the ground beef that needs to be fried up. And, freezing the leftover shredded cheese in smaller bags. Details. Minor details.

I would rather spend my final non-school day somewhere besides the kitchen. Like sitting in my chair reading a book. Or facebooking. Or playing a board game with my family. You get the idea.

Day Three: 14 Meals

Today was a short day, since I had afternoon plans. I still managed to get quite a few meals into the freezer, but I am definitely tired of cooking all day long!

The recipe list:

Best Breakfast Cookies (2 bags)


Chicken Stew
Beef and Barley Stew
Supersimple Beef Stew
Chuckwagon Casserole
Quick Chicken Lasagna (2 pans)
White Chicken Chili
Italian Wedding Soup
Double-Coated Chicken (2 bags)
PB&J Pockets

Sadly, I have few pictures from today.

Day Two: 17 More Meals

Day Two went by fast! I accomplished a lot, though.

Here's the recipe list:

Easy Granola



Sausage Cheese Muffins


Taco Rollups
Simple Shredded Pork Tacos
Honey Mustard BBQ Pork Ribs
Pulled Pork Sandwiches
Honey BBQ Shredded Pork
Shredded Pork Sandwiches
Autumn Harvest Stew
Savory Beans and Rice
Cowboy Beef
BBQ Chicken
Caribbean Jerk Chicken
Fresh Fruit Cups


Breakfast Burritos (3 bags)



Here is a tip for working with large portions of meat:
I completed 5 different pork recipes today from one large pork shoulder (Costco has good prices on packages of pork shoulder roast in 11-14 pound increments). Before I opened the package of pork, I prepped the bags with all the other ingredients for the recipes. Then, all I had to do was slice the meat into the appropriate size for each recipe and drop it into the prepared bags. Once the meat was all cut up, I washed up, sealed the bags, and placed them in the freezer.

I thought this worked very well, since I didn't have to go back and forth from the raw meat to other ingredients for each individual recipe. I hope that helps!

Day One: 16+ Meals

Yesterday was a good start to my cooking marathon. My mom stopped by and helped me make:

Pizza Muffins (for the kids' lunches)


Rosemary Chicken --2
English Muffin Breakfast Pizzas--2 bags (these look super tasty when finished!)


Spicy Black Beans and Rice
Black Bean Soup
Taco Soup--2
Winter's Best Bean Soup--2
Weeknight Ravioli Bake--2
Sausage Cheese Balls--2 bags
Calzone Rollups


I'm off to start today's cooking! See you on the other side of the dishes!

Getting Ready...

I finished my semester last week, and have enjoyed a full week of sleeping in and NO homework! But, alas, my next (FINAL) semester begins in 12 days. My final semester involves fulltime student teaching in a local elementary school.

That means I have 12 days to enjoy my family, celebrate Christmas, and cook up a semester's worth of meals. Meals that will be much needed, according to my classmates who just finished student teaching.

This will be my fifth semester cook-off! I needed some fresh recipes to brighten up our options. Since I will be working full days, in addition to completing schoolwork, I am adding more breakfast and lunch items to my cooking list. I found new recipes for breakfast cookies and english muffin pizzas, lunch entrees that can be tossed frozen into a lunch box and are ready to eat by lunchtime, and a few new ideas for dinners.

Next tuned for new recipes and pictures!