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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…

Flounder green-breeze grilled and beef Yoshino-style grilled

For the sauce on the flounder grilled 'green breeze' style, I combine water pepper, sake lees, and white miso; if it doesn't come out quite thick…

Halfbeak Wisteria-Style Sashimi, Kuruma Prawn Young-Leaf Sashimi, and Iris-Cured Tairagai

For the sashimi course's kuruma prawn young-leaf style, the kuruma prawns are quickly blanched in hot water and then dropped into ice water. I…

Potato puree soup with plump-simmered abalone

For the soup course's fukura abalone: normally, fukura abalone is slowly reconstituted and simmered until sweet and savory, but since this is a…

Horse mackerel dressed with okara

Arrow-Fletching Whale, Pinwheel Carp, Whiting Wind-Streamers, and Chicken Liver Greens Roll

Our restaurant has many occasions to use whale, so for the arrow-fletching whale appetizer I used whale bacon. The bigfin reef squid layered together…

Satsuki tofu

For the appetizer I made satsuki tofu — really a shuto tofu, meaning tofu mixed with fermented bonito innards. I named it satsuki, the old name for…

Abalone Steamed with Ancient Rice

This abalone steamed with ancient rice is a small dish of rice served partway through the meal to take the edge off hunger. Using ancient rice gives…

Lotus-root dumpling

Renkon manju is served as part of a simmered assortment course, or arranged as a single item for the appetizer course. Normally I shape one serving…

Fava Bean Tofu

Tenmame tofu is one of the sakizuke dishes. It's set using fava beans and soy milk. I've poured in a light savory dashi as well, but you can enjoy it…

Tilefish steamed with whole buckwheat grains

For the tilefish steamed with whole buckwheat grains, I combine steamed new soba with grated sticky mountain yam, season it, wrap it in tilefish, and…

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…

Chrysanthemum-cut potato and turnip stuffed in a nested-case shape, Orido eggplant simmered with sesame

The Orido eggplant used in the simmered dish course is from the Orido district of Shimizu — the eggplant Tokugawa Ieyasu was said to have especially…

Grilled broadbanded thornyhead, a prized fillet cut, grilled Japanese spiny lobster with egg-yolk fermented fish-innards glaze, Iberico pork

I've been quite taken with the Iberico pork I used for the grilled course lately. How should I put it — it has a certain slippery smoothness going…

Layered conger eel

Small abalone simmered in miso

Senryo eggplant stuffed with duck meat

Spear squid steeped in aromatic condiments

Grilled pike conger eel with shredded vegetable filling

For the grilled course, I used hamo. Our restaurant has continued in Tokyo since the Edo period, but these days, more and more guests request hamo…

Okoze

The okoze in the clear-soup course gives off good dashi, and it's delicious. In the cold season, I serve it hot-pot style with a whole grilled…

Abalone steamed with sake

For the abalone steamed with sake, rather than simmering the abalone until soft, I give it just a quick 20 to 30 seconds of steaming with sake…

Raw octopus and cockle, quick hot-water rinse with ume paste

The sakizuke stands in for the sashimi course; the raw octopus and torigai are given only a quick hot-water rinse (yu-arai), just enough to lightly…

Leaf-Cut Yuzu

How to Make Leaf-Shaped Yuzu Peel (Konoha Yuzu) ● Leaf-Shaped Yuzu Peel For konoha yuzu, first peel the yuzu skin thinly. The surface of a yuzu is…

Chestnut pureed soup with crab dumpling

For the crab manju in the chestnut surinagashi soup course, I added chrysanthemum petals on the surface to bring out a sense of the season. A little…