Potato and Vegetable Hot-pot Cake

This dish can be served as a complete vegetarian main course or as a vegetable accompaniment to a meat main course. I am making a Lancashire hot-pot without the lamb: lots of vegetables layered in the pot with vegetable stock and baked in the oven. The result is succulent flavours, topped with crisp potatoes. The dish can be made in a deep baking tray, but I prefer to use a flameproof baking pot.