Post-Holiday Vegathon

 We've been away on holiday to Disneyland Paris this past week and we didn't want to spend the whole time trying to convince Penny to eat veggies. We mentioned it a couple of times but she said no on the grounds that 1) we were on holiday and 2) we were in another country. (Tell us in the comments if you can find another "Friends" reference hiding in that lot!)

We did worry a little bit that she wouldn't want to continue, but when we got home and asked the girls what they wanted for lunch, they said pasta bolognese.

Normally we would hide the veggies in the sauce, but this time we decided to ask Penny which vegetables she would like to put in the sauce. She chose onion, carrots and peppers.

She helped Stephen with the preparation and when we sat down to eat, she practically inhaled her bowl of pasta, asked for more and finished her sister's portion too!

It was only halfway through that Stephen suddenly apologised to us all that there was no meat in the bolognese. He'd completely forgotten to put it in! But the sauce was so delicious, none of us had noticed!

Daddy and Penny's Spectacular (Accidentally Meat-Free!) Bolognese!
Penny's name!

Serves 4 (sauce serves 8)

200g pasta
1 onion chopped
1 red pepper de-seeded and chopped
2 carrots peeled and chopped
1 carton of passata
Grated cheese

Cook pasta as per instructions on packet.

Fry whole onion and whole pepper with a little oil until soft.

Boil or steam carrots.

Blend onion, pepper and carrots together.

Transfer to a pan, add passata, mix well and heat.

Add cooked pasta, stir and serve.

Top with grated cheese.

Obviously you can add this sauce to mince if you do want ACTUAL bolognese, which is what we're planning to do next time!!

Comments

  1. Comments11 December 2020 at 16:21

    From FebruaryFilly (Beth):
    Joey eating meat at Ross and Emily’s wedding in England, which he had agreed to give up to balance vegetarian Phoebe’s craving-induced consumption of meat whilst preggo with triplets. “Well, I figured we were in another country, so…it didn’t count.” 🙂

    Pasta sauce makes veggies very easy to eat! Whatever you add to your pasta sauce you can add to pizza sauce too.

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