I have a Vegitarian in the house.?

Question

My mom and dad had to cancell their trip to New York because of work. I thought i might make them a valentines dinner tonight since tomorrow and the rest of the week they will be gone at night. I need to know how to make spagetthic without meat.(their favourite dish) i am a great cook this is just one difficult task. An if you have any drink ideas for them that would be great too. Thank you

Answer 1

A good red wine always goes good with spaghetti.

Answer 2

There are a LOT of ways you can make a meatless spaghetti sauce.

An easy way is to buy a couple of jars of Prego or Ragu, some fresh zucchini, a can or two of stewed tomatoes, an onion, a bulb of garlic, and maybe some tofu if you want.

Slice the zucchini, dice the onion, mash up a couple of cloves of the garlic and toss them into a frying pan with a tablespoon of olive oil until the onions and zucchini are soft.

If you decide to use tofu, slice the block of tofu into thirds from the top down, not across the sides. Wrap the thirds in several layers of paper towels. Stack them one on top of the other on a plate. Put another plate on top of that, and put a few cans of veggies or whatever on top of THAT. Let it sit for about 30 minutes. This is to force the excess water out of the tofu and give it a more "meaty" texture.

Once that's done, cut the tofu into cubes and saute it with the zucchini/onion/garlic mix.

Start your water for the spaghetti boiling (I prefer to use spaghettini, the thin spaghetti) and cook the spaghetti according to package directions. Add a tablespoon or so of olive oil or butter to the boil water, it helps keep it from overboiling. If you are wondering how MUCH spaghetti to make, the 8 ounce package is NEVER enough. Go for the 16 ounce package. Spaghetti is CHEAP. Better to have too much and throw a little away than too little and people be left hungry.

Now take a large saucepan and dump the jars of spaghetti sauce in. Add the stewed tomatoes, the zucchini/onion/garlic (tofu) mixture. Heat until bubbling.

Drain the spaghetti, dump it into a serving bowl, put the sauce into another serving bowl with a ladle or big spoon.

Serve with nice hot garlic bread and a caesar salad.

Answer 3

Gosh Spaghetti is easy without meat.

I would saute up lots of onions, garlic, and mushrooms to make a chunky sauce. Just use that in place of the meat. Portobello mushrooms or wild mushrooms would add even more body.

If they like veggies, add zucchinin to the saute.

Then make your regular sauce or just pour in a jar of bottled Marianara (real label to make sure its veggie).

Top pasta with lots of grated parmesan cheese.

Polenta makes good/filling veggie lasagna too....
Cook polenta. Spread in cake pan. Chill. Cut into squares. Place squares in 9x 13 pan with tomato/garlic/basil sauce on bottom (jarred if need be -- pomodoro or marinara).

Layer polenta with slices of Fontina and let squares overlap a little (not flat in pan). Polenta/Chees/polenta cheese.

Sprinkle crumbled gorgonzola on top and bake until warmed through and cheese nice and melted. Yum

Answer 4

It's not a difficult task at all. You just make a sauce without meat..it's done all the time. Look up a recipe for marinara sauce and you are all set.

Answer 5

look into a product called Boca Burger it come in pattys or in loose meat its 1005 soy based. Meatless meat substitute it really good i am a vegitarian this stuff is amazing

Answer 6

wow there must be so many...
http://www.calorieking.com/recipes/subcategory.php?top=1%7CVegetarian&sub=1%7CPasta
http://www.bellaonline.com/subjects/9272.asp

Answer 7

use MEATLESS MEATBALLS from trader joes :) so yummy

Answer 8

go to allrecipes.com
its got everything!!