Star Round Two: Star Sandwiches

I'm determined to find the perfect use for this as a "press".

I'm prefacing this post by saying that I'm not a crust-cutter-offer. I'm a big time crust presenter. And most of the time my kids eat them. But my philosophy is to present foods as they come and my kids can choose to eat or not eat which parts of them they enjoy. So I wavered slightly in making these since technically all they are are versions of crust-cut-off sandwiches. I'm also prefacing by saying that I made these during the day...so I've cheated a bit on the blog. :)

That being said, I had some bread that's going to go in a couple of days and I had two heels in it and I really want to see the spectrum of what this little star wonder can do. A cute shape seems a great way to hide from your kids that their sandwich is half heel. I made two versions; a pressed one and a flat one.

These are olive and cream cheese. And at the time of writing, they've since been devoured.

Star Calzones

My oldest son started Kindergarten today. I wanted to make him something fun for his first lunch in his new lunch bag and over the weekend while outlet shopping I found this cute little star shaped pie mold and decided to try to make him some pocket calzones.

What I learned is that they call it a pie mold for a reason. Much better suited for sandwiches or pie crusts. Bread dough is best formed into calzones by hand. I made four of these little pockets then gave up and made a big calzone for slicing.

I did manage to have a couple of stars that came out nice and those went into his lunch along with an encouraging note for his first day.

Dough: Basic bread dough

Filling: Turkey pepperoni, mozzerella cheese, red sauce, minced green beans