valli little's hearty vegetable pie

What with the sunshine and warmish wind, I'm feeling positively Chaucerian today - April showers piercing the root, sap rising and all that jazz. It's definitely spring, so much so I've taken the arms off my cycling coat for the journey in, after all how cold can elbows get?

At lunchtime I head off to Cavendish Square for some of last night's leek and potato soup and a read in the sun. It's amazing a square within 100 metres of Oxford Street is so empty, not that I care of course...

However, by home time the skies have clouded over and the wind has whipped up, putting me in the mood to finally tackle our EU mountain of carrots via valli little's perennially popular hearty vegetable pie:

Now usually I make this with red lentils/split beans but I don't think they can stand up to the long-ish cooking time, going too mushy and invariably sticking to the bottom of the pan, so tonight I experiment with green lentils. It's a partial success I think; they hold their shape much better, but they could've done with an extra ten minutes to completely lose their hardness. Still, it's a pretty good weather-beater, and there's enough for Milo tomorrow *and* for the freezer - hurrah!

Food of the Milos
After the weekend's hi-jinks at the Taylors' it's back to reality with a bump with Nursery
Breakfast: Porridge with maple syrup, followed by pineapple at Nursery;
Lunch: Lazy pasta with cheese, nibbles;
Dinner: Fish fingers, peas and spaghetti hoops, and a yoghurt;

sources
hearty vegetable pie - valli little, Delicious, January 2007, Parsley Book