What about us?!

Veg Box...Thursday? No no no, it was yesterday. All is still right with the world. Savoy cabbage, baby plum tomatoes, flat mushrooms, butternut squash, leeks, parsnips, potatoes, onions and carrots.

I am a little bit concerned that my current lurgy may partly be because I haven't eaten a lot of meat recently. My Mother tells me this is rubbish. Fair enough. But either way I decided to buy a chicken. A £5 chicken will do two meals for Dr W and I so also good value. Bonza.

So last night was simple roast chicken with roasted butternut squash and chard & courgettes (From last weeks box. Mmmm floppy.) cooked with garlic butter. This was cooked to Michael Jackson's This Is It album. Dr W is not so keen on the MJ so during Earth Song I got a comedy poke for every 'what about us'. Mean.

Tonight's chicken incarnation was chicken, mushroom and leek potato topped pie. With the plum tomatoes which actually tasted like tomato! Very rare in February. Again, roll on summer.

Cook mushrooms with olive oil and a little butter until nicely coloured then add cooked chicken and finely sliced leeks. Season with pepper and a splash of vermouth (optional but very good, adds a winey herby taste) until leeks are soft and the chicken is piping hot. Make a white sauce and mix with the leeky, mushroomy, chickenyness in a deep dish. Season to taste.

Top with mash and grill until crispy. Probably better with pastry but I didn't have the ingredients to make any. Boo.

I know it looks like a lot of cooking for a week day it only took about 30mins to assemble and about 10mins to grill. Not a lot of time really. My biggest tip, clear up as you go along. Makes everything a lot less stressful.

Go on. Take some time and make a weekday pie.