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Silver tofu pureed soup

This is the soup course. For ‘Gindofu Surinagashi,’ there is a well-known tofu shop near where I work, and I very much wanted to build a dish around…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 2 days

Simmered Beef in Miso

For the simmered beef chuck-eye roll (kata-rosu), I use several kinds of miso along with chicken-bone broth and other ingredients to build a…

• Serves 1 · ¥215

• Cook time 1 hr

Lotus Root Sandwich Deep-Fry, Asparagus Wrapped in Yuba and Deep-Fried

This is the fried course. The lotus root sandwich deep-fry is usually fried with only a thin batter, but this time we mixed dried shiso leaf into the…

Sea Urchin Tofu

This is an appetizer course. Sea urchin tofu is not served in the conventional savory dashi. I made it using a tomato purée prepared from fruit…

• ¥656

• Cook time 30 min

Tomato and Onion Droplet

I devised this as the zatsuke (the first dish served at the start of a banquet) within a summer set menu. This is a chilled soup course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 2 hr

Matsutake and pike conger grilled with fragrant onion soy

This is the grilled course. For the matsutake and hamo grilled with fragrant onion soy, we first make an onion soy sauce and baste the fish with it…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 1 hr

Deep-fried salt-dried tilefish with fermented bonito innards sauce

For this additional course, designed with presentation in mind, I expressed ‘warmth.’ To bring out warmth at its best, I think nothing beats a…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 30 min

Koshu-style grilled chicken grunt, tomato baked in white sauce, steamed eel rice

This is the grilled course. For Koshu-style grilled isaki, the isaki is filleted into three pieces, coated with flour, and pan-grilled in olive oil;…

• ¥2,750

• Cook time 2 hr

Cherry salmon grilled roll with julienned vegetables, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf, roast beef three ways

This is the grilled course. For the cherry salmon kenchin-yaki, the cherry salmon is cut lengthwise into 10 cm widths, butterflied open, dusted with…

• Serves 1 · ¥680

• Cook time 30 min

Ichigo-ni rice in hot broth

This is the hot-water course served near the end of the meal. Since this book comes out in May, it’s a good time of year to use a bronze soup vessel…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Ise lobster steamed with sake, roasted rice green tea cream sauce

For the Ise lobster steamed with sake and genmaicha cream sauce, I often make a cream sauce with green peas, so this time I wanted to try making one…

Spanish mackerel grilled in a spring-mountain style, clam grilled with tofu skin, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf, apricot wafer confection

The Spanish mackerel grilled in a spring-mountain style expresses a scene from my hometown. As for the clam grilled with yuba, if you simply grill…

Awaji Numashima Pike Conger, ‘Skin-Beauty’ Hot Pot

A small hot pot built around hamo (pike conger) in season. Hamo from Numashima on Awaji Island is characterized by soft bones and thin skin, carries…

• Serves 1 · ¥875

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Small Melon Pureed Soup

This soup lets you enjoy the whole ayu just as its season opens. Ayu cured with kombu can be frozen, so it's versatile — useful for an appetizer, a…

Lettuce, celery, and tomato Hakata-roll, bracken fern and prosciutto wrapped in bamboo paper, shark fin in savory jelly

This is a vinegared dish course. For the lettuce, celery, and tomato hakata-roll, I pass the lettuce through oil, then through hot water, and drop it…

• ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Mugwort tofu-dressed sauce, grilled corn and cheese with bottarga, paprika-red deep-fry

A savory course. I divided the vegetables typical of June and July into three colors, split both by hue and by cooking method. The idea for the…

• ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Misaki-gazami Kora-yaki, Grilled in the Shell

Building on autumn ingredients, I used Misaki-gazami, a treasure of the sea from Oita Prefecture, where my workplace is located, to devise a set of…

• Serves 1 · ¥380

• Cook time 1 hr

Free-range chicken Kansai-style seasoned rice with bamboo shoot, carrot, burdock, thin fried tofu, shiitake, and mitsuba

This time, on 'shokuji,' I learned from chef Tamura (Shiodome, Conrad Tokyo's 'Nihon Ryōri Kazahana'). This time I take up 'kayaku gohan.'

Champignon pureed soup (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

This is an application of yakuzen within Japanese cuisine. This is the clear-soup course. The Champignon Surinagashi — a ground, strained purée-style…

• Serves 1 · ¥940

• Cook time 40 min

"Cool flavors": summer crab shinjo, small-grade kuruma prawn, oil-simmered tuna, fresh yuba, blanched pike conger, kinjiso jelly, piped anchovy cheese

The appetizer, which I named "Cool Flavors," was designed to give guests a sense of coolness. The saimaki prawn and avocado dashi-soy jelly is made…

• Serves 3 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Horse Mackerel Tsumire Soup

This is the soup course. The horse mackerel tsumire soup uses local horse mackerel caught at Hayakawa Fishing Port in Odawara. We normally use ginger…

Tender-simmered octopus, deep-fried octopus, grilled octopus (the tale of the octopus)

This is the Tale of the Octopus course. Tender-simmered octopus is not very tasty if made too tender, so it is finished with a bit of bite still…

• ¥1,750

• Cook time 3 hr