With the potatoes, peas and onion, it's pleasantly earthy, though stodgy as a vegetable stew.

That's before doing the school run, getting thrashed at an exercise class and making a vegetable stew for tea.

Spoon the vegetable stew into warmed bowls and divide the fish among them.

However, these last examples are exceptions to the general rule of a sweet and sour cooked vegetable stew or salad.

Traditionally potatoes with a large portion of vegetables and a small portion of meat with gravy, or a potato and vegetable stew.