Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

This Week's Fancy Pants Meal: Breakfast Calzones/Rolls

This was a recipe I had trouble with last week, so I tried again this week with a few changes, and they came out pretty darned good. It's a recipe from Robyn Nixon, and it was fairly bare bones, so I updated the recipe.

The main problem I had the first time was that this recipe calls for pizza dough. For some reason I could not get the pizza dough to stretch into a size that I could make the calzones/rolls with. It would just snap back.

This time, I ended up substituting crescent roll dough (which in itself is a substituion for dinner roll dough which I can never find around here), and it came out fine. When making the scrambled eggs, I'd very much season them like you normally scramble eggs, as they're the biggest flavor you have in the calzone/roll. I did forget I'd need cubed potatoes, so I substituted tater tots. They're potatoes.

I'd also suggest doubling the cheese portion, but that's just me. :)

# Breakfast Calzone

Robyn Nixon
6.0 calzones

14.0 oz Pillsbury pizza crust (cut into rectangles)
4.0 whole eggs (scrambled)
2.0 tbsp sausage (cooked) (crumbled)
2.0 tbsp bacon (cooked) (crumbled)
2.0 tbsp of potatoes (cooked) (finely cubed)
12.0 slices pepperoni
4.0 tbsp shredded Cheddar cheese
salt (to taste)
pepper (to taste)

1 - Spread out the pizza dough to comfortably make the number of calzones you'd like.
2 - Cut pizza dough into the number of rectangles you need.
3 - Layer cheese onto half of each rectangle.
4 - Layer pepperoni on top of the rectangle.
5 - Spoon remaining ingredients on top of pepperoni and cheese.
6 - Roll the dough over mixtures. These can also be made into calzones by pinching all four sides of the pouch instead of simply rolling them.
7 - Pinch edges if you can. Might have to stretch dough. Rolled them over so the seams were on the bottom.
8 - On a parchment layered baking sheet bake at 400 degrees for 13 minutes
9 - Once browned removed from oven and spray with olive oil.

6 servings at ~37.5g carbs per serving
Calories 306
Total Fat 10g
Total Carbohydrate 39g
Protein 13g

Yields 4 servings normally

#cooking #thisweeksmeals

"Hey, look!" She said trying to not doomscroll or get into CNN News Junkie Mode.

I got the Atari 800XL up and running! Just seeing it boot up and the keys register was good. Getting software to run from a flashcard was a little dicier, but I got most of it working.

I'm not sure if I can stream from it, though. The real-time video encoder I use does NOT like the video signal, showing it as a black and white semi-scrambled video signal (almost like composite video over component). But it does show it live making it easy to play games.
My elgato shows it fine, but there's a 1 second delay between what the Atari outputs and when it shows on screen making it impossible to play action games.

I think I did this before with my VCR and pumping a signal through composite to an encode AND coax to a TV. I'll figure something out.

Now...well, can't put off CNN News Junkie mode forever....

Saw this on my way home today....

IT IS 88 DEGREES IN MY LIVING ROOM

Thankfully, the office has AC.

That isn't promising.

Macross: Do You Remember Love

I've seen this movie many many times, but never on the big screen. For her 40th anniversary, I decided to fix that (even if it was a virtual big screen).

I saw this for the first time in 1988, and while Macross wasn't my first anime (I got bit by the bug in 1978 with Battle of the Planets), it's one of the more important ones to me.

The movie really hit different after I transitioned. It's certainly a product of it's time and culture. While the main protagonist has a journey from being a mysogynist jerk to someone who cares about the women around him, Misa/Lisa's journey is harder to take...that all she needs for happiness is to find a love and become a homemaker (however temporary).

It's still an amazingly lovely animated movie, and I wish we'd get movies with this style of animation in the US. The only ones I can really think of like this are Heavy Metal and the 1984 Transformers Movie....

This Week's Fancy Pants Meal: Packaged ramen.

Yeah, I screwed this week's recipe way up. It was a SUPER vague recipe with confusing instructions. I'll try again next week.

❤ And the swim meet is sold out. ❤
https://givebutter.com/QT-Swim

There are only two tickets left! I was not expecting the tickets to fly out the window the way they did!

https://givebutter.com/QT-Swim

Adding seats and poses really makes virtual spaces into livable spaces....

#resonite

Something I've been looking forward tor talking about fo some time....

[Eastside Seattle Area]

August 25th from 3PM to 6PM, we're having Pride Across The Bridge's first Trans and Non-Binary Swim Meet!

It's summer, the sun is beating down on you, the air is warm, and it's hot in the shade. You know what sounds good right about now? A nice dip in a pool. But that's not something the trans and non-binary members of the community always feel safe doing. The Trans and Non-Binary Swim Meet is here to help!

Dive into an afternoon of swimming in a safe, private and supportive setting. Sliding scale tickets for this whale of a time are available at https://givebutter.com/QT-Swim, and the location will be sent to you with your ticket.

We hope to see you there mer-friends!

Yay, I did a thing!

There are a lot of environments in #resonite, and they're pretty amazing. Lots of totally livable spaces, with nice beanbags and sofas and beds...none of which allow you to sit or lay in them.

I was given a chair as a house warming gift from a friend when I came into Resonite (they give you a free house when you join), and I found out how I could remove the chair itself, and use just the posing and sitting anchor and insert it into a non-sittable beanbag.

And now I can sit! I was even able to change up the pose to something a bit more feminine.

Once I do that for all the available seats in my cabin, I'll have a nice living space for all the people I...uh...don't really...um...have over at my....place....

Well, it's a lot of places for ME to sit at least....

On this 4th of July, our thoughts now turn towards I WANT TO SET THIS WHOLE THING ON FIRE (safely and carefully) IN A PARKING LOT SOMEWHERE AND RUN AWAY SCREAMING FROM THE NUCLEAR AFTERMATH.

Oh. That is so worth the mess and near destruction of my mixer.

This week's Heat Wave Special #1 - Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream!

The last time I made this, I didn't like it. But it was because I used regular cocoa instead of dutch process cocoa (I lost a like for cocoa flavored stuff after I started hormones for some reason). This time, it's gonna be GOOD, cause I love dark chocolate.

I'm glad I tasted it before I froze it, because it was completely not sweet at all. I think I mislabelled evaporated milk as condensced milk, so I added some sugar. Always taste your custards before you freeze them. Just in case :)

# Chocolate Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Sweet Fix Baker
19.0 servings

2.0 cups heavy whipping cream (chilled)
14.0 ounces sweetened condensed milk
2.0 tsp vanilla extract
0.5 tsp salt
0.5 cup dutch processed cocoa powder
0.5 cup dark chocolate chunks

1 - Freeze your whisk and a metal bowl for at least ten minutes.
2 - Beat the heavy cream until stiff peaks form (mixer highly recommended!)
3 - Add condensed milk, vanilla, salt, and cocoa powder and mix until well incorporated.
4 - Fold the chopped chocolate with a rubber spatula until evenly spread throughout the ice cream.
5 - Place the mixture in an airtight container or a pan, sprinkle with more chopped chocolate, cover and freeze for 8 hours or overnight.

Makes 19 servings at 15g carbs per serving.
Calories 177
Total Fat 11g
Total Carbohydrate 15g
Protein 2g

#thisweeksmeals #dessert

There may have been a little itty bitty accident when making the dark chocolate ice cream. Just a little bit.

Never stick things into a mixer on full blast with the whisk setting. It will whisk anything you put in there. 😃

Updating my #resonite amiibo to my new look....

This Week's Fancy Pants Meal: Meatballs Niezgocki

I has this at a Christmas LGBT Potluck last year, and it was FANTASTIC to the point I had to seek out who made it and grab the recipe. Turns out, it's SUPER simple with one exception: You need a crock pot.

I don't have one, and seeing as this was the first time I needed one, I don't really need to get one. But I did need to find a substitute. After finding a site that told you how to "convert" crock pot instructions to dutch oven instructions, I ended up burning the heck out of them last week.

This week, though, I just followed the crock pot instructions instead of the conversion, and they came out GREAT. They're a bit of a carb-bomb, though, so be careful. :)

# Meatballs Niezgocki

Lindsey Niezgocki
16.0 servings

26.0 oz frozen meatballs
18.0 oz Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce
15.0 oz grape jelly

1 - Whisk the jam and BBQ sauce until it has a smooth consistency.
2 - Add the meatballs to a crock pot, or a Dutch oven.
3 - Pour in the jam/BBQ sauce.
4 - If using a crock pot, set to high. If using a Dutch oven, preheat your oven to 225F before putting it in.
5 - Cook in a crock pot or oven for 6 hours.
6 - Put the meatballs in their serving plates.
7 - Whisk the sauce to recombine, and drizzle on meatballs.

Makes 16 (Jenn-safe) servings at ~37.5g per serving.
Calories 262
Total Fat 9g
Total Carbohydrate 36g
Protien 7g

#thisweeksmeals #cooking

I have cute little amiibo of myself in Resonite. :)

#resonite

Just got the PDF version of the new Hero's Cookbook. IT'S A HALF GIG AND ALMOST 300 PAGES.

Oh, I'm gonna be eating good next week....