Wrapping Up a Week’s Worth of Meals

Calzones are easy wraps. You can either buy the pizza dough or make it yourself (yeast, flour, olive oil). I make meatballs with garlic, carrots, zucchini and fennel seed, and stuff them inside a pocket of dough with some marinara sauce. For Dave and Masana, I’ll put grated mozzarella and parmesan cheese inside. Mack is allergic to dairy, so I make sure to keep his cheese-free calzone separate from everyone else’s.

So there you have it. The wrap is my cooking solution to planning the week’s meals, while keeping picky eaters happy—including both color-phobic sons and high-minded husbands. I only hope that my daughter remains the laid-back and adventurous eater that she is. If, when she gets older, she becomes a picky eater as well, I may have to leave the country. Or just go on a long, long vacation.