Homemade Hotpockets

I found these sometime during last semester and had been looking forward to trying them.  Within the past two weeks, I've made these twice.  They are easy to make and turn out wonderfully!  They aren't quite dorm friendly.  If I did decide to make them during the school year, I could go ahead and measure (and maybe mix) the dry ingredients.  All I would have to add would be yeast and water.  Another option would be to make and then roll out the dough and freeze it.  Then all I would have to do is thaw them and add ingredients for the filling.

Below is the recipe for the dough, which I found at ABeautifulRuckus.com.  The fillings that I suggest are combinations that I've already tried.  Feel free to suggest new ideas!


Dough:
Ingredients:
3 cups flour
1/4 cup dry milk
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
2 1/2 Tbsp yeast
1 cup warm water (not hot)
extra flour for helping the dough not stick when you roll it out

Tomato Basil Chicken

This is a recipe that I really enjoyed at home and decided to try to make in my dorm.  It requires relatively few ingredients and is very simple to assemble.  I changed the recipe a bit to make it simpler for fewer servings; initially, it would have yielded about 6 servings.


When I made this, I used 3 2-cup glass containers so that I could have maximum flexibility about when I ate each portion and whether I froze any portions.  I bought two chicken breasts and cut them both into two pieces: one 2/3 of the chicken breast and the other the remaining 1/3.  Then two of the bowls contained one piece of chicken and the last bowl contained two smaller pieces.  This worked out great for me; each was just the size I needed for a good portion.

The ingredients required of this dish also work well for life in the dorm because they are either used up or easily used in other dishes.  Basil and garlic are probably my most used spices.  The leftover tomato can provide extra slices for sandwiches or something else.  And finally, the remaining mozzarella sticks make for a great snack; this is what they were sold for in the first place.

Chicken Tetrazzini...a work in progress

When I want to make a meal at college, one of the post important things for me is that the recipe not contain very many ingredients and only those ingredients whose leftovers I will use in another recipe.  My mom is awesome and sent me to back to school with some frozen meals and some frozen chicken that she had previously cooked and shredded into bite-size pieces.  So when I realized that I had chicken and some spaghetti, I wanted to make chicken tetrazzini.  And as any good college student who doesn't remember something does, I googled it!  I compared 5-10 recipes and reduced them to as few ingredients and trouble as possible.  Also, I have yet to perfect the proportions of each ingredient.  That means that this isn't the most wonderful dish and certainly isn't your grandmother's well-known recipe, but it does still make a decent meal.  Give it a try and let me know what you think!