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Shark Fin and Lotus Root Cake

The shark fin and lotus root cake soup course is made by treating fresh lotus root to prevent discoloration, grating it on a grater, folding in…

Taro stem somen

For the taro stem somen, we used white zuiki and green zuiki to make an attractively two-colored somen. The white zuiki is boiled in hot water as…

White melon pressed with kombu

As for the shiro-uri pressed with kombu — when you're stuffing something into shiro-uri, you tend to want to use a thin piece, but if you change the…

Shell-mound-style deep-fried abalone, flame-seared Japanese whiting, grilled summer vegetables

For the vinegared course's plum jelly, I combined red plum vinegar and white plum vinegar in roughly equal parts and set it with finely minced red…

Blackthroat seaperch in fresh-greenery dressing

For the nodoguro in fresh-greenery dressing, the nodoguro is wind-dried, steeped in a seawater-strength brine for about an hour, and then seared. I…

Sea bass baked in pastry

For the grilled dish, the sea bass baked in pastry: the sea bass is quickly seasoned with salt and pepper and seared to color. Spinach ohitashi is…

Small Clam Adductor and Rishiri Kombu Shinjo

For the soup course, I made small clam adductor and Rishiri kombu shinjo, using a store-bought Rishiri kombu powder. I thin this powder out with raw…

Ise lobster shell-simmered, bundled shark fin, and onion simmered in rice porridge

For the simmered course's onion rice-porridge: I parboil new-crop onions in hot water with milk added, then — without cooling them in water — put…

Steamed tilefish with new-harvest soba

For the steamed course, I thought of using autumn's new-harvest soba and tilefish. First, for the steamed tilefish with new soba: I rolled the new…

Fried red deep-sea sculpin

Shogoin daikon steamed wintry-wind style

As for the owan Shōgoin daikon kogarashi-mushi, if you add a light whipped egg-white foam as a binder, the filling and the turnip stick together…

Ise Lobster Simmered in Sake, Scorpionfish Steamed with Sake

Oysters in Tomato Sauce

Taro stem with fermented bonito-viscera sauce

The shuto sauce on the hasu-imo ends up with a thick, clinging texture much like an egg-yolk vinegar sauce. Cooking it in a hot water bath gives more…

Grilled Ise Lobster with Sea Urchin, Pinecone-Cut Tokobushi, and Grilled Ainame with Kinome

For the grilled dish, fat greenling with kinome, the fat greenling is skewered, and thoroughly heated oil is poured over the skin side four or five…

Abalone shiso deep-fry

Winter melon, scored and rolled into a spiral

For the winter melon naruto-maki, the winter melon is scored in a bamboo-blind style and rolled into a naruto spiral with wakame and a shinjo…

Bamboo Shoot and Yuba Shinjo

The soup course is bamboo shoot and yuba shinjo. The bamboo shoot is simmered in something closer to an all-purpose seasoned dashi than a plain…

Seared mackerel with soybean pulp

Our Shinagawa Club is used mainly as a venue for entertaining company executives; we offer both à la carte and set courses at lunch, and only set…

Pickles, ginkgo rice course, closing soup

Our guests are mostly somewhat older women visiting on pilgrimage during the day, and business parties such as client entertaining in the evening…

Surf clam grilled with sea urchin sauce, duck wrapped in Shimonita leek, cod wrapped in its own milt and grilled with tomo-dare sauce, shrimp-shaped taro grilled Shigaraki-style

This time I made grilled dishes the centerpiece. For the surf clam grilled with uni sauce, the equal-parts mixture of three seasonings becomes…

Ginkgo nut, kuruma shrimp, and walnut in tofu dressing

Cauliflower jelly in the moon-in-every-rice-paddy style

Mitarashi Tofu

For the soup course's mitarashi tofu, I gave it this name because I made it bite-sized for easy eating. To get a neat, round shape, it's important to…