BBQ Chicken Calzones

1) Set up two large skillets on your stove. One to medium heat, the other to medium high.

2) Preheat your oven to 425 F and grease a cookie sheet with oil, butter, spray, whatever you like to use.

3) Plop your bacon into the medium heat skillet and set up a paper towel lined plate beside it (or wherever you have counter room).

4) Set up a few tablespoons of olive oil in the medium-high skillet and let the chicken pieces join the fun.

5) Add some spices that you enjoy to the chicken. I used onion powder, oregano, and a garlic-herb mixture. Definitely over season these puppies (or chickens?) since they’ll be in the oven soon.

6) Check your bacon. When it’s crispy enough to your liking, and closer to a crimson color rather than pink, flip em over.

7) Now spread some flour out onto an available surface and put some on your beautiful hands.

8) Separate the dough into two separate lumps and roll each out into an oval. One for you, one for Mr. or Mrs. Lucky Receiver Of The Meal.

9) Stir around the chicken, and let it cook until you see absolutely no pink anywhere. When they are the proper color, remove from heat and let cool. (This should take around 15 minutes. Definitely double-check a piece’s inside if you aren’t sure, since no one likes raw poultry..or the hospital).

10) Pat dry your roasted red peppers. Slice them very thin and place them in a large bowl.

11) Take your wonderful smelling bacon and place it on the paper towel-lined plate and let it cool. Then crumble.
12) Now place the whole all star cast into your bowl with the red peppers: bacon, chicken, and of course, BBQ sauce. Take a big bite and see if it needs more spices (most likely it doesn’t, but you have to make time for bacon, right?)

13) Now spread some BBQ sauce onto each of your dough pieces. Leave some space on the outside, we don’t want oozers.
14) Now place a heaping spoonful of the filling onto half of your dough oval. Fold over and seal with your fingers.

15) Repeat with the other dough oval.

16) Now, take a fork and press it along the edges of each calzone.

17) Spread some olive oil on top of each calzone with your fingers (or brush it if you have one of those..psh)

18) And finally, put these buddies into the oven on that baking sheet for 10 minutes. Watch closely since all ovens are different and special.

19) I am aware you have leftover fillings. This is because someone will probably demand you make this again tomorrow night.

20) Take out of the oven and let cool for a looong time because they will be hot. Enjoy!

Now, if you are just that adventurous, you can make homemade ranch while the calzones are baking. Take a ramekin and mix up two heaping tablespoons of sour cream, one of mayo, and one of plain yogurt. Then add a couple shakes of onion powder, dill, and some salt and pepper.