Seafood Pockets

Here's a simple, quick-to-prepare, tasty dish: seafood tucked in flaky rolls. Dinner doesn't get much easier than this.

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound seafood salad (We used some already prepared seafood salad from a grocery store deli counter. It has some flaked crab substitute, as well as popcorn shrimp, and just a bit of mayonaise.)
• 1 8-ounce container crescent rolls (I like the reduced-fat ones. They are less greasy than the regular kind.)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375°.
2. Break up the crescent roll dough into four rectangles. Each rectangle will consist of two triangles. Seal up the seams.
3. Scoop 1/4 of the seafood onto one end of each dough rectangle.


4. Fold the other side of each rectangle over the seafood, and crimp the edges together to form closed pockets.
5. Place the pockets onto a baking stone or a nonstick baking sheet, and bake for about 14 minutes, or until lightly browned. If you don't have a stone or nonstick baking sheet, you may want to line the baking sheet with foil or parchment paper.

She said

These seafood pockets are yummy, and it takes just a few minutes to put them together. While they are baking in the oven, you can prepare a salad. By the time you're done getting the salad ready, the pockets should be about ready to pull out of the oven.

I like crescent rolls, and I like baking them stuffed with different ingredients. I sometimes stuff them with a mix of plain crabmeat substitute, baby spinach leaves, and mayo. Very tasty.

I prefer using a baking stone, rather than a baking sheet, to bake these. The crescent rolls seem less likely to overbrown and burn when they are baked on a baking stone.

He said

You can't argue with quick, nor with convenient. And I never argue with tasty combined with those, unless it's just prepackaged salt with some other flavors they call out by name.

When Debbie made these for us, I'd never had them before. The very idea of putting a seafood salad in the oven surprised me. And yet it turns out just fine. The seafood salad is just as yummy warmed, and it does warm through. Now if only there were a submarine sandwich shop that sold warm seafood salad...