Roasted Butternut Squash Calzones

I just lurve butternut squash - it is so sweet and versatile, and it plays so well with others. If butternut squash was a person, you'd want it to be in your band. You'd want him/her to be on your intramural floor hockey team. You'd be friends with him/her and you wouldn't really ever fight. In any case, I decided to invite some butternut squash to come play with some onions, garlic, goat cheese and puff pastry to create a calzone of sweet, savory, caramelized goodness. Here is how it went down:

Serves 2 - just double/triple/quadruple recipe as needed!

Ingredients:

1 sheet puff pastry, rolled out

half a Butternut squash, peeled/seeded/sliced into thin pieces

2 tablespoons of Olive Oil

half a White Onion, thinly sliced

1 clove fresh Garlic, finely minced

2 tablespoons Goat Cheese

1 Egg White

Splash of water

Salt and Pepper

Instructions:

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Combine your sliced squash with the onion, garlic and a pinch each of salt and pepper in a roasting pan of any kind. Toss the ingredients with the olive oil and place the dish in the oven for 20-25 minutes, or until the onions and squash are fork soft and caramelized with a light brown color. Pull the dish out of the oven, toss the veggies around, and turn the oven up to 450 degrees. Take the rolled out puff pastry and, using a salad plate or similar shaped object, cut out two circles. On a pizza pan, place the two pastry circles, add as much veggie mixture as will fit on one side of each circle. Crumble a tablespoon of goat cheese onto each pile of squash. Pull the other side over onto the pile of veggies, making a calzone shape. Fork the edges to ensure it is tightly closed. With a knife, poke a hole in the top of the calzones so that the steam can escape once the calzones are cooking. In a small bowl, mix the egg white and water to make an egg wash, and brush over the top of the pastries, so that there is a nice sheen over them when they are done cooking and they brown on top. Place the tray with your calzones into the oven for 10-12 minutes or until the pastry is nicely golden brown. Enjoy!!