Try this delicious, tender roast leg of lamb recipe the next time you want to spend a drizzly day inside cooking. It takes seven hours to cook, but you do not need to stand over it; pop it in the oven, where it will only need an eye cast over it from time to time.

Heartily seasoned with herbs, vegetables, and wine, this leg of lamb is roasted until it's falling-apart tender. The wonderful aroma the lamb and vegetables create as they roast away makes this elegant, yet homey, dish as pleasant to cook as it is to serve.