Recipes / Entertaining made easy with latitude in-house chef Sam Parish

This feast of a menu will have you freezing, scraping, chopping, searing, rolling, stuffing, crumbling, whipping and cracking. But in the best and simplest way.

The time of year most spent around the table – and dare I say kitchen – is fast approaching. But worry not!

I’ve written these recipes to help make summer entertaining all about the food, but in the most effortless oh-I-justwhipped-this-up way. It’s all in the prep, my friends. And prep we will. Picture it: Christmas day (or one of the many other days in which we entertain and eat over summer), people are arriving with their hands full of presents and nibbles and bubbles and baubles and children. Total mayhem. So why wouldn’t you choose to prep the day before? Prep is key to enjoying what is the best thing about any kind of entertaining: the company of friends and loved ones (and obviously the nibbles). These recipes use a lot of my favourite ingredients and a few of my new ones, like Little Biddy’s botanical dry gin (also a great stocking filler). Trust me when I say this is maximum of flavour, minimum of fuss to a tee. So I hope you enjoy them and make them your own.

We would love you to tag @latitudemagazinenz and @sams_mofmof in your entertaining feasts and Hashtag #mylatitudefeast so we can be a part of your feasting adventures!