Pi Day

First off, Beware The Ides of March!

There, glad we got that out of the way. As hopefully everyone knows, yesterday 3/14 was Pi Day (also the birthday of one Albert Einstein). To celebrate, I baked this delicious peach pie. It was (and continues to be) very good. I was quite please with the way that the lattice turned out.

I actually quite enjoyed Pi Day. It's a worthy holiday (like Talk Like a Pirate Day, Sept. 19) and you can't forget the date because it's 3.14. Imagine the Pi Day celebration in 2015. Eh?

Anywho, I plan to incorporate it into my personal roster of celebrated holidays. It can take the place of Easter.

In other news, Daylight Savings sucks. My current job starts at 5:30 in the morning. The worst part is this weekend I was starting on Sunday after coming off almost a week and a half of being out sick, so I'd been staying up and sleeping in later and my sleep schedule was already messed up. As far as I'm concerned, everyone has an excuse for being an ass for the next couple of days. I will attribute any cranky mood to Daylight Savings. Which is lucky for one of my coworkers because otherwise I would have been forced to ask who pissed in her cheerios this morning. It's been a couple days of this sullen attitude from her and I'm about done with it.

But maybe she'll cut loose on St. Patty's and calm down. So glad spring is here!

Calzone!

If you haven't checked out the blog  BrokeAss Gourmet, you really really need to. I use the site on a semi-daily basis for recipes or just ideas. They have this amazing pizza dough recipe that you can use a million ways. 

Thus far I've made pizza, bagels and donuts with it, and I intend to use it to make an approximation of these puff pastries that my mother used to make. 

But by far the best use I've put this stuff to is the calzone. I did not take a picture of my beautiful and delicious calzone, so I have stuck up the first calzone that turned up in a google image search. This one appears to be pepperoni. I'm sure it's lovely. 

Mine was spinach and mushroom. I had too much spinach left over from another thing I made, and so I shredded it with a knife and piled it with some chopped crimini mushrooms on one half of a disk of pizza dough. I threw in some minced garlic and some chopped onions and some basil (left over from making pesto), then piled on mozzarella and parmesan cheese. I was afraid that I had piled it too high and the dough wouldn't stretch enough to close it up, but it did. I brushed on some olive oil and sprinkled some sea salt and ten minutes later I had a really really good calzone. The bread cooked faster than I thought it would and I was afraid the insides would be under done, but it was perfect. 

The article at BrokeAss suggests you always have a ball of this super easy pizza dough kicking around your fridge, and I am inclined to agree. Especially since all it takes is some dough and some cheese to turn a bunch of leftovers into something elegant and delicious.