Roast Shoulder of Lamb and Root Vegetables with Onion Sauce

This really is a warming and happy-making lunch. Eat it wrapped in a large woollen jersey for the whole sheep experience.

I’m surprised I was not put off eating this first at school. I never reacted with the same eagerness as my contemporaries when Flying Saucers (deep-fried Spam) or Maryland Chicken were served up, but always smiled to myself as the grey, overcooked lamb appeared, daubed in anaemic onion sauce. No doubt another behavioural oddity that classed me as one of the weird