Yesterday, I made a leg of lamb. I rather liked how it turned out, so I'll write some notes here for posterity.

Ingredients

• 3 lbs leg of lamb, preferably with the bone
• Spices
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 lime/lemon
  • 3-4 sprigs of fresh rosemary
  • 1 teaspoon thyme
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1 teaspoon onion granules
• 2 cups chicken stock

Directions

1. Zest the lime and squeeze out the juice. Combine with all the spices. Make slits in the lamb and rub in the spice olive oil mixture. It looks like this.
2. Sear the leg of lamb in a dutch oven with lard. This takes about 3 minutes per side on medium-high heat. Add chicken stock to the dutch oven.
3. Braise it for about 45 minutes in the dutch oven with lid on at 325 degrees Farenheit. Remove the lid for and cook it another 30 minutes at 350 degrees. When done, it will look like this.
4. Slice and serve with reduced chicken stock. The bone marrow is an especially nice treat.