Eat Together: Summer Recipes for Gatherings

Summer has always been about gathering. The longer evenings, warm weather and smell of food cooking outdoors naturally draw people together, and there really is no better excuse to invite people over, slow down for a few hours and reconnect properly. 

For this guide, we collaborated with every member of the Sodexo Ireland culinary team and asked each chef to put their personality onto a plate. Rather than creating a collection of perfectly polished restaurant dishes, we wanted this book to reflect people, their food memories, cooking styles, favourite ingredients and the way they genuinely like to eat during summer. The result is a collection of dishes that feels personal, relaxed, colourful and built around sharing

Throughout the guide you’ll see global influences, bold flavours, lighter cooking styles, fire cooking, fresh herbs, grains, fermented foods, vibrant salads and dishes designed to be passed around a table. Some recipes are simple, others a little more adventurous, but all are intended to inspire.

We hope you use them as a starting point, put your own spin on them and adapt them to suit your own family, friends and style of cooking. More importantly, we hope this guide encourages people to gather together more often.