Blush Wine Vegetarian Pizza

Blush Wine Vegetarian Pizza

Ingredients:
2 cups blush wine, sweetness level 2 to 3
2 cups warm water
2 T dry yeast
2 T honey
2 tsp salt
1 to 2 T olive oil
3 to 4 cups unbleached or whole wheat flour
1 jar Catelli Garden Select 6 Vegetable Recipe, Garlic and Onion variety tomato sauce
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Thinly sliced zucchini, sweet pepper strips, coarsely chopped onion and sliced tomatoes,
sliced mushrooms

Directions:
Dough: Put wine and water in a bowl with yeast and stir. Add honey, salt and oil. Stir.
Add 1 cup offlour and stir until it is a smooth batter. Let sit for 15 minutes until frothy.
Stir in 2 more cups of flour until it is too hard to stir, then take it to the floured board and
knead in remaining flour. Continue to knead dough until smooth and firm. Place in an
oiled bowl, and allow to rise in a warm spot, until doubled.
Spread dough onto oiled pizza pan, allow to rise for 10 to 20 minutes. Smear on tomato
sauce to the edges, with slightly less in the center. Cover with cheese, then add other
toppings. Bake at 400° F until edges are brown and cheese at center is beginning to
bubble. Serves 4.
Author’s Bio:
Norah Wilson works full-time as an executive assistant for a provincial hospital
association, writing madly on weekends. With her husband of 18 years, two teenage
children, a very devoted if not-very-svelte dog, and a rat, she makes her home in
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Norah has completed four novels, one of which she sold to Hard Shell Word
Factory (HAUNTED BY DREAMS, ISBN No. 0-7599-0427-8, release date TBA). In
2001, she was a finalist in Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Golden Heart
contest in the Long Contemporary category with her romantic suspense LAUREN’S
EYES. She would love to have you visit her site at or
keep an eye out for her release at
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QUINCE AND SPARROW PIE
Setting the Scene:
In ALL FOR A GOOD CAUSE, Janet, the heroine, and her sister have been
recruited into cooking at the medieval charity fair. She should be preparing a roast, but,
while sneaking the beer marinade, she watches the hero Devin battle for her hand in
marriage. Janet puts down her tumbler of beer.
Excerpt from ALL FOR A GOOD CAUSE:
“Just checking it. Besides, I need something to get me through the weekend. I’m
going to be married tomorrow and my betrothed is being beaten to a pulp by the sheriff.”
Maggie-Ann peered out at the practice field. “Good God, is he ever. If I didn’t
know better, I’d say Silas was enjoying it. Maybe you’re the prize.”
“If I am, I’m going home.”
“Don’t want to marry Silas?” Maggie-Ann asked.
“The thought turns my stomach.”
“Maybe it’s all the beer you’re swilling. Get the meat into it, before it’s all gone,
will you? You’re making supper, remember?”
Janet dumped the huge seasoned roast into the clay pot she’d swiped with grease.
Almost crying, she dumped the beer into it. “What next?”
“Check the list,” Maggie-Ann said.
Janet walked over to the table and sat down. The lady who’d organized all the
meals had been precise with her instructions.
“’Take out the pie pastry and fill it with the quince and sparrow mixture,” she
read. “Good grief, Maggie-Ann, who killed the sparrows for this?”
Maggie-Ann laughed, slopping the custard over the rim of the bowl. “They’re just
Cornish hens. You’ll have to eat some of that tonight. They’re an aphrodisiac.”
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Janet automatically glanced up at Devin, who was now shaking Silas’s hand. He
was grinning, but abruptly, he twisted about. Their gazes locked and his grin widened,
shooting like a bullet at her. Immediately, he began to rub his hip and frown.
Janet snorted. What a terrible actor.
Quince and Sparrow Pie