Pasta "Bolognese"

Another meal not cooked by me, but I had to share :)  Last night we had dinner at my girlfriend's place, and she made us another meal using Yves Ground Round, as in the post previous to this.  THIS time, however, we played a little trick on one of her boyfriend's friends, who joined us for dinner.  A self-professed carnivore, we wanted to know if he would have any idea the "meat sauce" wasn't made with actual meat.

Long story short, he didn't. In fact, he devoured his plate, had seconds, and kept telling my girlfriend how good it was.  After he was stuffed, she told him, and he took it very well and was impressed. The point? Trick your relatives. Just kidding. The point is that we need to move past the idea that your friends and family "won't like" what you make if it's vegetarian.  There's simply no need for people to feel as if they will somehow be "deprived" without meat. On the contrary, I've discovered so many more textures and flavours since becoming a vegetarian. Not once have I ever felt deprived.

No particular recipe required for this.  Make your regular spaghetti sauce as per usual, but substitute with ground round. You may want to add a veggie "beef stock" bouillon cube or two to really get that beefy flavour. We ate this on rigatoni with bread and an amazing salad whipped up by my boyfriend.  Other than the dressing which had some feta in it, the entire meal was vegan.

Tonight is my three year anniversary with my boyfriend, and we searched high and low for a restaurant with sufficient vegetarian options, and settled on Wild Rice, which looks amazing :)  Will give a full report on Monday - hopefully the restaurant is bright enough inside that I can take some pictures, too!
http://www.wildricevancouver.com/
Have a great weekend!