If you are by yourself and don't have a proper 'stack' steamer (worth getting though), then take a metal sieve and put your veg or feed them into it to steam for the proper time - potatoes could even go in the bottom of the pan if you don't want them steamed...... one other pan for cooking your meat and I have frying pans, one with ridges, one without that I can put in the oven too..... A great alternative is a good terracotta 'flat' dish that can take things like chicken thighs along with a range of veg from new potatoes to shallots, tomatoes, even mushrooms, root veg etc and bake off in the same pot - and mine cleans up 'just like that'.....