芦沢克守
For the cherry-blossom-shaped bamboo shoot with Naruto-rolled wakame, I prepared bamboo shoots shaped and colored like cherry blossoms, alongside…
For the cherry salmon kerria, in-season cherry salmon is marinated in soy sauce and red cooking sake, then lightly air-dried. Used raw, it springs…
These days you can get very convenient dried cod. In the past it used to take a great deal of time to rehydrate, but the kind I'm using today can be…
For the spring turnip cherry blossom, the turnip is peeled round and carved with a cherry-blossom shape inside, then simmered until seasoned. The…
For the lotus root and conger eel, the inside is grilled conger eel. Bleached, commercially processed lotus root finishes whiter than raw lotus root…
Tai roe, mountain yam, butterbur stalk, a flowering-bud vegetable, yellow zucchini, and carrot are each boiled and simmered until seasoned.
For the spring-season sea bream cured with cherry-leaf aroma, salt-pickled cherry leaves are lightly rinsed in water to draw out some of the salt…
For the winter duck and paprika sandwich, the aigamo (mallard-duck cross) is first seared to color, then simmered, and the blood is drawn off. I like…
For the yuzu-scented grilled sea bream, the sea bream is filleted into three pieces as usual, then marinated for about 20 minutes in a marinade made…
For the scallop haru-yama, the scallop is quickly blanched and marinated in sweet vinegar. Since this is meant to evoke a spring mountain, the light…
The soup course is buckwheat groats wrapped in yuba. The buckwheat groats are well rehydrated and gently formed into a small ball with hanpen…
The core of napa cabbage is sliced thin and used to wrap the scallop adductor muscle, deliberately pairing "white" with "white." It is finished with…
This is the appetizer course. First, I combine spear squid with a freshwater alga, a lantern-shaped fluffy cod preparation, flowering sansho pepper…
For the pine cone-style sole, the sole (shitabirame) is first pan-seared in butter. Then somewhat thick almond slices are inserted into the flesh one…
I wanted to bring some playfulness into this mitate-style presentation work. I made it thinking that this kind of visual presentation could work well…
For the conger eel snow mountain, daikon radish forms the base, and conger eel together with a meringue "foam snow" create the snow-mountain effect…
