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Monkfish liver, monkfish jellied broth

This is part of an effort to cope with rising food costs. At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Salmon Iizushi and New-Crop Rice Okoge

This is an expression of modern regional cuisine. Original regional dish: salmon iizushi Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 min

Low-Temperature Roasted Wagyu with Foie Gras

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: roast wagyu Wanting to seek out the long-transmitted dishes of Fukushima and Kōriyama and…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,056

• Cook time 5 hr

Ōboshi scallop, new-crop nameko mushroom

This is the vinegared course. Ōboshi scallop, nameko mushroom, and cucumber are dressed together and topped with chrysanthemum petals. The grated…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 20 min

Raw salmon roe in soy marinade, monkfish liver neatly rolled in thin-sliced turnip, saimaki shrimp hot-oil-blanched, and deep-fried shrimp heads

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 30 min

Tofu-Wrapped Grilled Offal — a Favorite of the Boss

I used offal, which the boss at the dojo I've long been indebted to is fond of, and named the dish accordingly. I rehydrate the offal in a pressure…

• Serves 2 · ¥110

• Cook time 20 min

Turnip cup with monkfish liver and carrot in beef-shank dashi sauce, beef tendon and persimmon namasu, inner thigh beef cured in squid shiokara, seared outer thigh beef with crab miso sauce, fried beef shank coated in maitake mushroom and bottarga, oysters wrapped in beef belly

Since the toast at the start of the meal is often beer or chilled sake even in winter, I wanted something warm that lets you feel the umami. For the…

• ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Cod Oyako Clear-Soup

This is the clear-soup course. For the Cod Oyako Clear-Soup — oyako meaning "parent and child," pairing cod flesh with cod roe — in the Tohoku region…

• Serves 1 · ¥570

• Cook time 30 min

Crab and Potato with Daikon, Hairy Crab Grilled in the Shell

Drawing out the appeal of Hokkaido's overwintered vegetables. The overwintered vegetables used here are Niseko 540 potato, snow-covered daikon, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Floating Venison, Roast Venison

As for Floating Venison, in Karuizawa where I work, honshu deer are culled as harmful wildlife, but out of sympathy with those involved who don't…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 2 hr

Bell pepper and lily bulb terrine, bottarga and daikon stuffed into dried persimmon, grilled eel sushi, arrowhead bulb matsukaze, millet wheat-gluten cake glazed with sweet miso, flounder kombu roll

These are the appetizers. For the bell pepper and lily bulb terrine, you must let the mixture of yellow bell pepper and lily bulb cool completely…

Making Vegetables Delicious

We developed a new-sensation dashi using garlic with its odor suppressed, as part of "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine." Since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,308

• Cook time 20 min

King crab and lotus root manju, chrysanthemum-cut daikon in sake-lees pickle, millet wheat gluten Dutch-style simmered, bamboo-leaf-cut kabocha

This time, on 'simmered dishes,' I learned from technical director Saito (Nihon Ryōri Kinari). This time I take up 'renkon manju.'

Monkfish liver rolled like folded paper, quick-blanched crab claw, crab roe with sea urchin, raw cod roe simmered to infuse flavor, snow-ring lotus root vinegar pickle, served in a hollowed yuzu shell

The monkfish liver hosho-maki is a longstanding technique, but I thought pairing it would let guests enjoy not only its rich umami but also the…

• ¥430

• Cook time 20 min

Yellowtail shabu-shabu with grated daikon

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. Here, this stands in for the sashimi course rather than a hot pot. For the yellowtail…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,600

• Cook time 4 days

Herb-and-Breadcrumb Baked Oysters, Conger Eel Yawata-maki, Monkfish Liver in Butter-Soy Sauce

This is an introduction of dishes paired with Japanese white wine. This is a grilled dish. For the herb-and-breadcrumb baked oysters, the oysters are…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 1 hr

Chicken grunt, skin seared yakishimo-style

This was created with couples in their thirties and forties in mind. For the skin-seared isaki, the skin is often discarded, but it is actually…

• ¥400

• Cook time 30 min

Whale red meat, grilled with golden egg yolk

This is the grilled course. The marinade for the whale red meat used in the golden-glazed grilling combines dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, mirin…

• ¥2,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Sado pufferfish ball-shaped sushi, Sado yellowtail and turnip fermented sushi, Niigata smoked salmon with mustard-egg-yolk vinegar, and garland chrysanthemum greens with Niigata edible chrysanthemum steeped in ponzu

First is the appetizer course. Using Sado Island's seasonal Niigata ingredients — Sado fugu, Sado salmon, and Sado yellowtail — I prepare each as an…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,311

• Cook time 1 hr

Oden-Style Seafood Steamed with Irizake, Hokkaido Overwintered Vegetables Simmered in White Wine

This is a simmered dish of Hokkaido overwintered snow-covered daikon, carrot, and scallion. Both the seafood steamed with irizake, a…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 3 hr

Smoked Winter Mackerel, Beef Tongue Temari Sushi, Cod Roe Karasumi, Beni-Fuji Salmon Shira-ae, Tatami Iwashi and Cheese Hakata-maki

This is a dish paired with Japanese white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture. This is an appetizer course. For the smoked winter mackerel, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Tajima Chicken Asuka-Nabe — Ceylon Tea Style

This is a small individual hot pot dish built around Ceylon black tea. (Reference: Ceylon black tea, 100 g: ¥570.) For the broth in the Tajima…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Tomato Served in Its Own Shell, Steamed Abalone, Jade Eggplant

For the steamed abalone, we tried sandwiching it between daikon and rosemary and steaming it, but since abalone already has a strong scent of the…

Kombu-cured halfbeak layered with bottarga, fugu milt steamed with grated turnip

For the kombu-cured sayori layered with bottarga, I cure the sayori (Japanese halfbeak) in kombu, but sayori absorbs the kombu's flavor easily and…