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Dual-purpose ingredient dish: Uda-kin burdock pureed soup

During the pandemic there was a period when ingredients were hard to come by, so I had to cook with whatever limited ingredients I had on hand. I'd…

• Serves 1 · ¥445

• Cook time 30 min

Rice Pudding and Strawberry Cream

Roasted green tea jelly

'Seasonal colors on green bamboo': trough shell clam with vinegared myoga and egg-yolk vinegar, young ayu and baby corn wrapped in conger eel and deep-fried fragrant, Yanaka ginger deep-fried in tea leaves, baby octopus simmered in black tea, baby tiger prawn simmered in lemon tea, Japanese whiting grilled with egg yolk, baby turban shell simmered in black tea escargot-style, and two kinds of tea-rice chimaki

This is a piece of Japanese-cuisine development built around imported teas. The teas used are 'honey-fragrance black tea, green tea (Cuiluo), dark…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,338

• Cook time 2 hr

Venison Corned Beef

Crop damage from deer and wild boar is a problem nationwide. I devised a summery dish that lets people enjoy venison, sourcing it this time from…

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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

Abalone tororo, miso-pickled swordtip squid, cheese egg, white melon pressed into a cylinder, and more

The abalone tororo is made by rubbing blue-tinged abalone with salt until the flesh is very firm, then grating it on the fine side of the grater and…

White Asparagus Steamed with Soy Milk

As for the white asparagus steamed with soy milk, I wanted to propose a health-conscious dish of the kind that has become notably popular in recent…

Swimming crab (gazami) mold

This is the steamed dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. For Gazami Mold — swimming crab caught in Tosa Bay is called 'gazami' in Kochi Prefecture. I…

• Serves 1 · ¥870

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea bream spring aspic, kombu-cured Shinshu salmon with vinegar dressing, simmered abalone, prawn with caviar, walnut tofu

First, we come to the five appetizer dishes. I added volume and plated them showily. For the sea bream spring aspic, I worked characters chosen for…

Spring sea bream grilled in layers, in the style of an avocado mille-feuille

This is the grilled course. For the sea bream kasane-yaki with avocado mille-feuille style, the sea bream is cooked in a steam convection oven at…

• ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Five-color grilled squid, shrimp / herring roe on kelp / okra set in jelly, loach-stuffed burdock Owari-style simmered, carrot mousse, summer duck and zucchini sesame-grilled, mini kabocha squash, pike conger cut into icicle strips

For the appetizer's five-color grilled squid, this time I air-dried the thick part of the red squid's flesh a little, cut it into strips, and colored…

Akita Prefecture "Yuri Beef Roast" with Iburigakko Sauce

The theme is "Reimagined Local Cuisine" — a creative reworking of the standard way local cuisine is typically served. This is an additional course…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,700

• Cook time 30 min

Tiger pufferfish dressed with crumbled nuka-pickled roe, icicle-cut squid with egg-yolk cream, soaked whale with white vinegar dressing, ark shell clam and taro stem with Naniwa miso, cod milt marinated in saikyo miso, rolled pickled plum, Shimonita leek stuffed with beltfish and grilled in a marinade, lily bulb wrapped in pressed plum paste, Oribe-style taro wrapped in a shiitake ribbon, stem lettuce pickled in fermented rice malt, and shimeji mushroom and Japanese parsley in a Tsugaru-style apple dressing

This is the torafugu masago-ae, using nukazuke fugu ovary. This is something cured in salt and rice bran for about three years, and it's sold only in…

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…

Apple Yogurt Mousse

The apple yogurt mousse is set into a baked apple that's been hollowed out to serve as a shell, and it's served chilled. Baking an apple for a long…

Turnip light-snow jelly

Shinshu giant char cylinder roll, char roe in soy marinade, autumn fruit and walnut mousse, Shinshu pork steamed with sansho, grilled maitake with foie gras, chrysanthemum petal salad, Shinshu salmon with egg-yolk mustard sauce

This is an appetizer presented in hassun (seasonal-assortment course) style, using Nagano Prefecture's prized traditional vegetables and, since it is…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Avocado purée soup

The avocado purée soup (surinagashi) in the clear soup course is popular with women diners. Curiously, when avocado is thinned out with consommé, its…

Pinecone-scored squid, cut-bamboo early butterbur, syrup-simmered plumped plum, sprouted arrowhead bulb, ten-thousand-year simmered burdock, calm-wave-cut lily bulb, snow-capped herring roe, turnip namasu, steeped early bracken fern, and Hakata-style sweet bean jelly

Kuizumi is osechi, New Year's food. At New Year, packing lots of dishes into tiered lacquer boxes for the family to eat, and also to serve when…

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

Walnut Tofu

The walnut tofu served in a lidded bowl is a variation on a milk-and-kudzu confection from the Mineoka region of Chiba. On a double-ring gas burner…

Cherry salmon grilled Oribe-style with matcha, Shimanto turkey smoked with black tea, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho pepper

As for the cherry salmon Oribe-style matcha grill, sakuramasu, as the name suggests, comes into season during cherry-blossom time, but since it has…