Rachel Roddy's recipe for sformato, or Italian vegetable bake | A kitchen in Rome

Vegetables, eggs, bechamel and many other good things are baked into this mosaic of a flan, a delicious speciality of Piedmont The restaurant was part of a long, yellow terrace with a wooden sign indicating which door, of many, was the right one. Small signs make me feel pleased with myself; I haven't simply found the right door, I have discovered it, which, on this occasion, was not just self-important, but nonsense, because I was with a friend, Irene, who goes there all the time. We were in Sa...