Meat sauce, or ragù, is a tomato based sauce simmered with ground meat, like beef or sausage. Bolognese is a thick, hearty meat sauce that may or may not have tomato in it. Bolognese also typically has milk in it. This very not traditional vegan bolognese is thick and hearty and contains no milk or cream...not even dairy-free varieties, and is definitely tomato based. So, perhaps it's more like a vegan ragù than a bolognese.