[dodger]

I'm very concerned at the lack of culinary self sufficiency disclosed in this thread. Self sufficiency with cooking is an excellent skill to have in your locker, not to mention great for courting those hard to impress ladies. For those of you struggling with making a roast, follow these five steps which will take you no more than 25 minutes to do (plus cooking time):
1.  Preheat oven to 160.
2.  Get a lamb shoulder and lightly score it with your bad ass knife.
3. Cut some carrot and potato into large chunks and place them in the bottom of a roasting tray. Maybe put some lemon slices in the bottom of that tray if you want. Put the lamb shoulder on top of the vegetables. This adds flavour and keeps the meat off the bottom of the tray where it is likely to just boil in its own juices during cooking.
4.  Very finely chop a big handful of rosemary, a smaller handful of thyme, and 12 cloves of garlic. Loosely combine this stuff in a bowl with olive oil, the zest of 1 lemon, salt and pepper to make a marinade. Rub the marinade all over the lamb shoulder.
5. Slide the fucker into the oven and leave it there for four hours. Turn the oven up to 220 for the last 15 minutes to get a crispy skin.
That's the most idiot proof way to make a brilliant roast that will have tender meat that you can just shred with a fork. Do that, and you will have meat for days.
If anyone is interested I'll set out the steps for the glorious side salads, and what to do with the leftover meat.

This was so moist it didn't even need gravy............