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Corn pureed soup, grilled mochi, quail anpei, thinned mustard

This time, on the 'soup-bowl course,' I learned from technical director Katō (Meguro Gajoen). This time I take up 'surinagashi.'

Cod and Turnip Roll, Milt Simmered with Egg Yolk

This is a simmered dish featuring the winter ingredient cod. For the cod and turnip roll, we used turnip, which becomes sweet and delicious once…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 1 hr

Napa cabbage simmered in its own puree

Napa cabbage tomoni from the 'vegetable work' at Yonemura in Shimbashi. We trim the napa cabbage down to just the core, then simmer it for fifteen to…

• Serves 2 · ¥100

• Cook time 1 hr

Shark fin chawanmushi

This is a steamed dish. I serve this shark fin chawanmushi because, at around this point in the course, I think guests want something that lets them…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 5 hr

Steamed Chicken with Nametake Sauce

At our membership-based restaurants, I make a sample using ingredients that can be reliably obtained, and have each restaurant prepare it themselves…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Eggplant Somen

This is an introduction from our restaurant's popular autumn dishes. Eggplant is generally thought of as a summer vegetable, but by presenting it…

• Serves 1 · ¥100

• Cook time 10 min

White miso preparation with mugwort wheat gluten and grilled yuba, turnip, shiitake, carrot, mitsuba, and mustard

This time, we learned about "Gowan" from Hiroshi Ikawa (Nihonbashi, Japanese cuisine Hanakaede). This time, we will focus on "White Miso Style".

Sea bass pureed soup, potage-style

As a new way of serving seafood, I've approached umami as richness = fat, so all four dishes I developed in this series incorporate added fat. This…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

Bamboo shoots simmered in clam brine, clam fried in egg-yolk batter, kuruma prawn Shiba-style simmered

As for the bamboo shoots simmered in clam brine, they are normally simmered with bonito dashi and wakame to make wakatake-ni (bamboo shoots and…

• ¥1,300

• Cook time 1 hr

Barracuda steamed with chopped tofu and vegetables

This is a devised way of serving seafood. Since our restaurant is a casual, mass-appeal restaurant in Kanagawa Prefecture, I proposed this using…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 30 min

Softshell turtle egg tofu (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is an application of yakuzen within Japanese cuisine. This is a steamed dish. The Softshell Turtle Egg Tofu is a steamed dish meant to support…

• Serves 1 · ¥370

• Cook time 1 hr

Sakura-dai Sawani-wan

This makes use of a spring ingredient — this time, sakura-dai, a cherry-blossom-season sea bream. This is a clear-soup course. For the sakura-dai…

• Serves 1 · ¥595

• Cook time 20 min

Soba béchamel bake

For the soba denpo-yaki, I use buckwheat flour in place of wheat flour for the béchamel sauce, added to bring out thickness and depth. For the sauce…

• Serves 1 · ¥530

• Cook time 30 min

Sesame Soy-Milk Somen -- Using "Macro Tare"

We thought about "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine" by making use of a sauce that delivers impact without any animal-derived ingredients. The "Macro…

• Serves 1 · ¥238

• Cook time 30 min

Monkfish tomozu

At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often during its harvest season, from November through March. By…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 40 min

Chestnut and fig in basil-sesame cream (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by medicinal-cuisine specialist Momoyo Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Softshell turtle noppe

'Noppe' is a Niigata regional home-style dish, a lightly thickened simmered stew widely loved and often eaten at home. This time, I've added a twist…

• Serves 1 · ¥443

• Cook time 1 hr

Eel and collagen rice porridge — the synergy of three collagen soups

As part of an effort to cope with rising food costs, the concept behind this meal course is "synergy." When steaming plain-grilled eel, the water in…

• Serves 2 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Sesame Soy-Milk Sōmen with 'Macro Tare' Sauce

'Macro tare,' the key point of this dish, is usually used as a dipping sauce or dressing for meat and fish. This time I thought about whether this…

• Serves 1 · ¥238

• Cook time 30 min

Potato and egg rice porridge with seasoned ground chicken, udo, carrot, shiitake, butterbur-sprout miso, and fried onion

In the old days, zosui was written as "masu-sui" (large amount of water), and was made by adding wa…

Vegan simmered "pork belly", wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut white melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, and taro mustard

For "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine," thinking of veganism as also tied to religious belief, we wanted people who can't even…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

Soba in its own cooking broth, with myoga; rock salt and yuzu; wasabi and Nankō ume; wakegi scallion and hand-picked nori

The idea for this product came about when I was feeling unwell and couldn't take my medicine withou…

Charcoal-Grilled Young Sweetfish

Under the theme "sauce," I also looked at some Western-style recipes for reference. I personally enjoy creative-style cooking too, so even though…

• Serves 2 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Clam and New Lily Bulb Cold Soup

This is a proposal for an arranged dish for repeat customers. It's a dish using local hamaguri clams. For the clam and new lily bulb cold soup, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥220

• Cook time 50 min