Pies of sorts....

I *love* pie. I also love pizza. I had some leftover pizza dough the other day so I decided to make pizza pies, or calzones as they are properly called. The nice thing about the calzones is you can really stuff them with veggies, cut way back on the cheese and bake them in the oven. This particular calzone was stuffed with green pepper, tomatoes, and zucchini. The middle one was made with cheese and tomato sauce only for my daugher - hence the cheese oozing out all over the place. These calzones were a hit at our house, so watch for more of these in the coming weeks.

Next up is the first apple pie of the season. My daughter and I went apple picking about a week ago. Nothing like farm fresh produce. This pie disappeared in a matter of hours. I'm looking for the nutritionally redeeming qualities of pie. Well, it is loaded with fruit... apples none the less. Apples contain both insoluble and soluble fiber. One medium (5 ounces) unpeeled apple provides over 3 grams of fiber, more than 10% of the daily fiber intake recommended by experts. Even without its peel, a medium apple provides 2.7 grams of fiber. So the peeled apples in this pie contain lots of fiber to help digest our food. Apples have long been touted as an excellent source of flavonoids that act as antioxidants, moping up oxygen free radicals that can damage DNA.