OK I confess...I've never made a roast!

[Miss.September]

We do ours Jamie Oliver style - and since we started, DH has insisted on a roast every Sunday night!!

Take the lamb out of the fridge 30 minutes before you need to cook it. Preheat oven to 240, put 2 onions, 2 carrots, 2 celery sticks, 4 garlic cloves and some fresh herbs (we use rosemary and thyme) into a tray and drizzle with olive oil. Rub olive oil into the lamb and season with salt and pepper. Pile the vegies up together in the tray, put the lamb on top and put in the oven - don't cover with foil. Turn temp of oven down to 200 and cook for 1 hour 30 for pink meat, longer if you prefer it darker. It's perfect every time (depending on your oven of course!!). So simple and so delicious. Once it's out of the oven, let it rest for 10 minutes. Vegies, we just peel, drizzle with olive oil and chuck the herbs over the top. They go in for an hour.

[leckert]

I didn't even think about how we do roast veg here - peeled, cut up into reasonable chunks, tossed with olive oil (and maybe some roast veg seasoning - Masterfoods has one) and thrown raw into roasting pan with meat (+ some in another pan usually) for about 45 min, turning once usually around the 20 min mark.
Potato (white not sweet) takes longer than sweet potato, carrot, pumpkin or parsnip I've found - usually wants an extra 10-15min for me (or you could toss other veg in at about 15-20 min after potato and then turn them about 15-20 min later.)

[~Hestia~]

Thanks so much for your advice ladies! I'll let you know how it turns out

[Phteven]

Do you have a slow cooker?
I do mine in a slow cooker now (unless I have a leg that is too big to fit it) and they are utterly drool worthy.

[~Hestia~]

No I don't have a slow cooker unfortunately, kept meaning to buy one all last winter.

[Phteven]

They're awesome for summer too.
You can chuck a curry together in the morning and avoid the stove on hot afternoons.

[~Hestia~]

Ah, of course! Great idea!