I Confess...

Baking and me? We're not exactly the best of friends. I freely admit that I lack in the baking department of my kitchen. I'm horrible. Absolutely, positively, horrible at baking.

So since me and that 50 pound bag of bread flour have to become best buds, I figured I'd change my menu plan around tonight. I desperately wanted something where there would be leftovers for DH to take to work the next few days, because I am sick of him asking for frozen junk meals.

AH-HA! I thought. Calzones!

So I hit a big recipe site in search of a calzone recipe instead of just bending one of my dough recipes to work. (Big mistake!)

I followed the posted recipe almost to a T (using a bit less flour since it is bread flour after all) and I knew something was wrong about 30 seconds into the mixing part.

I probably should have abandoned ship, but just because it's a giant bag of flour doesn't mean I am going to allow myself to waste it. So I added more water. And more water. And kept kneading as it was falling apart, clearly no way it was going to make a decent ball of dough to rise.

Finally I added a ton more of oil and ended up with a semi-kneadable and stretchy ball of dough.

Here's hoping it's edible! :(

So out of all of this I want to say: if you ever make one of my recipes and it's totally off for you, please tell me! I'd totally hate for others to be making them and it's not edible. I swear, it was when I made it, but while ovens can be different, I'm still worried now.

Monday edit: I didn't like it, but it must have been more than edible because DH gobbled up FOUR of them. Yes, four! Next time I decide to make calzones, I think I'll use one of my crust recipes instead.