we made ice cream and calzones today
May 25, 2009
My husband took my daughter shopping for a desk for her room. It gave me that much valued opportunity to have one-on-one time with my son. We used to have more of it. But, lately my daughter has been a momma’s girl.
My son is such a joy to hang out with when there are no other kids around, including his sister. He went downstairs to visit our 18 year old cat and he found our “camping” ice cream maker. We’ve never used it camping, as I can’t imagine toting along cream and ice! Anyway, he decided he wanted to make ice cream. Fortunately, I had all of the ingredients - otherwise, I would have had to make a run to the store - he doesn’t like to take no for an answer. We had fun filling it with ice and rock salt and mixing together the ice cream - not to mention the rolling, tossing, and shaking of the ice cream maker ball.
Suddenly, he remembered that we saw some ladies making calzones on a local PBS cooking show. These calzones looked great so I had written down the ingredients and ordered them with our groceries. He decided he wanted to make those too. Again, fortunately, the Amazon Fresh grocery delivery had arrived earlier today. We again, had the ingredients. So, he helped saute the red onions, garlic and brocoli, mixed it together in a bowl with the various cheese, and most importantly, helped me make and roll out the dough. While we were waiting for the yeast to set and the dough to rise, we even got in some homework time! My husband was so glad to find out when he got home that the homework was already done. I had asked him to make sure it got done this weekend as it was supposed to be turned in on Friday. He has never been successful getting my son to do homework. It is quite the battle.
So, anyway, we had VERY DELICIOUS brocoli calzones and vanilla ice cream with all the toppings - I wish I had time every day to make food with my son - he loves it as do I!
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