Speedy-ish Chicken Pot Pie with a side of apartment

So kids, after 3 moves in a single year I've taken the leap and moved into my own place. Hallelujah!

It's been 4 weeks but still no sofa/tables/chairs/decent lighting to speak of. So I've had to improvise. You'd be surprised just how many things a stack of cookbooks can double as...

And I bought a rotary phone. It has that old-fashioned ring and everything! But I have to sit on the floor to use it... Also those shoes were too small on me, bt too gorgeous to give up so I thought I'd just display them randomly.

That folded up newspaper thingy is actually a folded-up cutout of my sofa that I made out of junk mail and pamphlets. This is what happens when you have no plans and no furniture on a weekend in Toronto. You make cut outs of would-be furniture and give them names, a la Tom Hanks.

Hurry up EQ3 dammit.
But before I get too far along this apartment tangent, back to the chicken pot pie! I bought some ready-made, ready-rolled puff pastry (perfect), and a carton of eggs, a bag of shredded cheddar cheese and threw in whatever I had in my veggie shelf. To be specific:

4 eggs
Glug of cream
2 cups/1 bag shredded cheese
1 tbsp mustard
Thyme/rosemary/oregano
1 tbsp garlic
Diced veggies: celery, carrot, leeks, potato, all cut to the same size
Cooked shredded chicken (or leftover rice/risotto/chicken pieces)
salt/pepper to taste

Lazily stretch the ready-rolled pastry over a greased pie dish. Saute the veggies over high heat (they won't have time to cook fully in the oven otherwise), and let them cool. Whisk eggs, cream seasonings, cheese then add everything else. Plop the whole mix into the ready-rolled pastry that you've previously slaved over, cover with the other half, poke with a fork and bake in the over for 45 mins at 375F until golden. Presto! Speedy-ish Chicken Pot Pie. (The -ish being for the ridiculous veggie chopping required).

In retrospect, a better version would have been with mascarpone and fewer eggs, which would eliminate that eggy/poultry-ish aftertaste that comes with using too many eggs no matter how fresh. But I had just come back from the supermarket for the third time this week and there was no way I was going back again for a tub of cheese! So all-eggs it was.

By the way, does anyone know what I mean by that eggy taste? In arabic we call it zankha, but none of my non-arabic friends have ever heard of it. Some googling is needed.

Ahh this post has gone on forever! Ok cue Cribs-style ending where I shoo you away from the front porch of the house while you cut to bloopers of the "this-is-where-the-magic-happens" scene...