Reviewed: Dec. 29, 2011

Good calzone recipe for this beginner! This recipe was my intro to making calzone, and I have made it 4-5x. Like several other reviewers, I made my own pizza dough, mainly to save money and have simpler ingredients; once I commit to making it-it's easy. Made enough dough for two pizzas, to be sure to have enough for all the delicious filling in this recipe. The nutmeg is great in it; subtle but there. Have made them the mini-size in this recipe and also larger. Had a little problem with overly thick crust and overfilling; nothing to do with this recipe but watch for that if you are new to calzones. Big hit with friends and family! So tasty we didn't even bother dipping them in marinara sauce most of the time!

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hiramwilliams

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Camden, South Carolina, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 18, 2011

I'm at odds with this recipe. I searched high and low for 11.3 oz canned rolls, but came up empty. I settled for a 10 oz can and bought two. Try as I might, the biggest circles I could roll with those things was 5". Even then they were very thin. I could only use a rounded tablespoon of the filling in each one. These were very tasty, but I have more than half the filling leftover after using one can of the rolls. I'm planning to use the other can to make 10 more, but I'll probably still have filling after that. I can't imagine that 8 rolls from an 11.3 oz can could possibly hold all of the filling. These do taste good, but if I make them again I'll make a pizza dough for the crust.

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Pam-3BoysMama

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Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Monroeville, Pennsylvania, USA

Living In: New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 19, 2009

I, personally, did not like the "bread". Next time I will make a pizza dough and do this "right" as the taste did not correspond with the effort. With that said, I love the filling. I added sausage to this and it was amazing. It makes a ton so we have saved the filling (in the freezer) to be used in the future - the "right" way.

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Lori

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Fontana, California, USA

Living In: League City, Texas, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 6, 2009

Really good. I added sausage and zucchini to mine, and I just made two large calzones for my husband and me for dinner. They were tasty!

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Alyssa

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Salinas, California, USA

Living In: Long Beach, California, USA

Reviewed: Sep. 21, 2008

This was a great and quick way to make calzones. My daughter is a Vegetarian and this was a great recipe for her. I will make it next time and make half vegetarian and my husband wants some italian sausage added. This is a very versitile way to make what every one wants ....

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VickieL

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Owings Mills, Maryland, USA

Living In: Mill City, Oregon, USA

Reviewed: Jun. 7, 2007

I love this recipe. I was able to freeze 1/2 of the calzones for another dinner. I did use pizza dough instead of dinner rolls..much easier. I also added some italian sausage to hide the spinach taste for DH. Great recipe!!!

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INHERITEDCURLS

Reviewed: May 7, 2007

Great dish to prepare ahead of time. The filling was very green so I doubled the ricotta and added extra mozzarella. I used croissant dinner rolls which made the crust light and flaky. 16 min. was a bit too long for the fresh calzones but worked for the fronzen ones the next day.

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Metalchelle

Reviewed: Apr. 22, 2007

DH and I made this recipe together and we did not have success with it. The dinner roles tasted more like the corn meal than pastries and the filling was not as cheesy as we would have liked.

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DeepScapeNine

Reviewed: Apr. 22, 2007

You can defeat the packaged taste of canned dinner rolls and frozen spinach by mixing up the filling. We threw in some ground meat, red pepper flakes, basil, fun cheeses, etc. Really whatever's on hand because it's a pretty versatile recipe.

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gigerbopper

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Reviewed: Mar. 30, 2007

Made my own dough by hand (used Pizza Dough I recipe, actually) and made two large calzones out of this. I added about 1/4 c of italian tomato sauce to give some more flavor to the filling but left everything the same otherwise. REALLY good.

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