The beauty of the casserole is that you can cook a full meal for the family without having to worry too much about boiling vegetables within an inch of their lives! My boys when they were small were more likely to eat vegetables as part of a casserole rather than vegetables prepared and cooked separately. I could add the kind of vegetables that at the time they would not have considered eating like peppers, tomatoes, lentils, the dreaded sprout, parsnips and spinach.

Viva la casserole!