Vegetarian Pot Pie

This recipe comes straight from The Weekday Vegetarian blog.  Speaking of weekday vegetarianism, that's roughly what we have become.  There is a TED Talk about it that you can check out here: http://www.ted.com/talks/graham_hill_weekday_vegetarian.html.  Anyhow, the recipe looked pretty tasty, so we decided to try it out.

Vegetable Pot Pie

Ingredients and Directions:

Here's the link: http://theweekdayvegetarian.blogspot.com/2009/03/vegetable-pot-pies.html

The only things we did slightly differently are:

1. No shallots, just used onion.

2. Generous portions on the veggies, particularly the peas.

3. The beer we used is called "Hobgoblin", since that's about the only dark beer I could buy individually at the liquor store and I was too afraid to try buying Stout.

4. As for the roux, we used roughly 3-4tbs of both butter and flour... oh but we used whole wheat flour.

5. Oh right, speaking of whole wheat flour we cheated on the crust and just bought Tenderflake.  I think this contributed to the fact that it didn't take so long to brown.

6. Given that we didn't have ramekins, we used large pie plates - this made assembly easy, but serving prettily a little more difficult! (This recipe made 2 large pie plates full of tastiness!)

The Verdict:

Katie's rating: Yum
Johnny's rating: Yum

Easiness: Easy

Speed: Slow