Vegetarian curries are really nice imo and even boring vegetables like cauliflower become transformed cooked in a curry. At an Indian wedding a while back, all the food was vegetarian as is the main custom in India. I've always had a preference for a vegetable samosa over a meat one, although neither are, I imagine, particularly healthy given they're deep friend.
Pasta doesn't always need a heavy meat sauce, thank goodness for Basil, lemons, Parmesan, cream, broccoli, Pesto, olive oils, any one or a combination, added to pasta can make a tasty meal
We're lucky now we can access so many spices that enhance vegetables to make them far less bland and most people have long since departed from the "boil them for ever more" school of cookery of the dim and distant past, where they lose their texture and in the case of broccoli, asparagus and other green vegetables no longer the vibrant colour they should be. Stir frying is also a great way to keep vegetables al dente.
