Mini Butternut Squash Calzones

Mini Butternut Squash Calzones

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Fall is HERE, baby!

Squashes and gourds and pumpkins (oh my!) are all the rage right now in home gardens, farmer’s markets and your nearby grocery stores. It’s time to adorn the fireplace mantle, the front porch, and…your mouth. What? You DO eat this stuff too, ya know?

Butternut squash is one of my all-time favorite fall foods. Roasted? Are you kidding me? Yes. Pureed? Shut your face, yes. Baked? Yes again.

Blitz up an easy sage and walnut pesto, grab a Pillsbury thin pizza crust and get your roast on with some cubed butternut squash and red onion. I can almost guarantee you’ll be doing a little fall giddy dance right in your kitchen.

Just look at that.

Ingredients for Mini Butternut Squash Calzones

Start by slicing and dicing the goods:

Pre-roasted vegetables for Mini Butternut Squash Calzones

Look at those walnuts. They go into the pesto. Oh, yes they do.

Walnuts for pesto

While the veggies are roasting, get your pesto done.

Pesto before pulsing

Blitz, blitz. Gorg.

Pesto mixed

Now, roll out the Pillsbury thin pizza crust and divide it up, like so.

Calzones dough cut up

Oh, veggies are done! Good. Heavens.

Roasted vegetables for Mini Butternut Squash Calzones

Spoon a little pesto on each square.

Mini Butternut Squash Calzones, pesto layer

Top with the roasted heavenly goodness.

Calzones open with vegetables

‘Bout to throw em in, yo! (Yo?!)

Calzones, pre-baking

You guys, I might cry.

Finished calzone, closed

Yep, tears. TEARS.

Finished Mini Butternut Squash Calzones, sliced

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bevcooks said:

I completely understand! Sage has a tendency to be a bit potent. Next time maybe try a more traditional pesto with basil? Or even spinach is a wonderful substitute for a milder flavor. None the less, thank you for trying them and letting me know!


10/30/2011 8:07 AM
Anonymous said:

I was really looking forward to it, but the sage pesto really didn’t impress me that much. :( The taste was just too strong – it tasted I like I was eating a sage calzone. It certainly didn’t ruin them for me (quite the opposite – I’m looking forward to eating the leftovers over the next couple of days!), but I would use something milder next time.


10/29/2011 11:33 PM
Anonymous said:

Fantastic! I love all the flavors going on here…what a great idea! :)


10/17/2011 1:43 PM
bevcooks said:

Why, thank you so much, Aggie! You’re too kiiiind ta me, woman!


10/14/2011 12:02 PM

Shut your face is right. Girl this looks OUTSTANDING. Seriously. You outdid yourself. Congrats on the gig! Loved this post!!


10/13/2011 7:01 PM
bevcooks said:

Who paid you to say that? :) Thank you so much, Heidi!


10/06/2011 7:07 AM

These might be my most favoritest photos of yours to date. Well hello sexy walnuts. Blitz, blitz, burp.


10/06/2011 12:29 AM
bevcooks said:

Oh, absolutely! Basil is the perfect substitute for sage. I agree, too. Sage can be a bit pungent! Give the basil a try and let me know what you think!


10/05/2011 2:05 PM
Anonymous said:

I love this idea, but am not a big fan of sage and would think sage pesto would be a bit overwhelming for me. What are your thoughts about walnut/basil?


10/05/2011 2:01 PM
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