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Beef-Wrapped Grilled Bamboo Shoot, Cherry-Blossom-Viewing Skewers, and More

For the appetizer's morel mushroom stuffed with crab: the morel rehydrates quite well just by soaking it in lukewarm water. I think it's best to…

Butterbur set in white vinegar dressing, bamboo shoot and rapeseed blossom cured with kombu, udo pickled in plum vinegar

For the vinegared dish's kombu vinegar: add vinegar to the clear liquid that rises when boiling zenmai (royal fern fiddleheads), and mix in a touch…

Spring Daikon and Lotus-Root Mochi Simmered with Shirozake

For the simmered course's spring daikon and lotus-root mochi simmered with shirozake: this time I used sake lees to let it soak in the seasoning…

Chinese yam grilled Shinshu-style

For the grilled course's nagaimo grilled Shinshu-style: marinate the nagaimo in miso for about two days and grill it, but miso alone makes it too…

Potato and Clam

For the clear-soup course's potato and clam: shaping it like a clam is a bit tricky, but it's easy if you first form it like a rice ball and then…

Spring vegetables, Ogawa-mushi

For the wasabi leaf in the spring vegetable ogawa-mushi: pack it into a jar, pour in hot water, and shake it well — this brings out a strong…

Sakura tofu

Yuba, hosta shoot, ostrich fern fiddlehead and grilled lily bulb dressed with sansho leaf

For the appetizer of yuba, urui, kogomi and grilled lily bulb dressed with kinome: add a little baking soda just before the kogomi finishes boiling…

Snow crab deep-fried in a paper-thin wrapper

For the fried course's snow crab in a paper-thin wrapper: boil the snow crab and remove the meat. Rehydrate bamboo shoot and peel it into a long thin…

Conger Eel Rolled in Yuba Kenchin-Style, Baby Octopus Simmered Sakura-Style, New Potatoes and Bacon Simmered to Absorb the Broth

For the simmered course's conger eel rolled in yuba kenchin-style: rehydrate the conger eel well, simmer it in soy sauce and sugar, and set it aside…

Alfonsino grilled with sweet white sake, pen shell grilled with sansho leaf

For the grilled course's pen shell with kinome: remove the pen shell from its shell, marinate it in a blend of soy sauce, mirin, and sake in equal…

Green Pea Tofu

The soup course is finished mizore-style. Remove the clam from its shell, sake-sauté it, mince the innards together with it, and combine with dashi…

Fresh sea urchin, grated-yam tofu set with agar

Beef-wrapped foie gras grilled in saikyo miso

For the beef-wrapped foie gras grilled in saikyo miso: I use store-bought canned foie gras. Canned foie gras has quite a strong flavor, so I simply…

Whiting and Kombu Layers, Ball-Shaped Kuruma Prawn with Lantern-Style Dressing, Two-Tone Asparagus Jelly, Baby Turban Shell in a Kneaded Fermented Bonito Dressing, Cherry Salmon and Hosta Shoot Roll

For the appetizer's whiting and kombu layers: fillet the whiting into three pieces, salt it, and rinse it in seasoned vinegar. Then layer it with a…

Butterfish, grilled pine-cone style

For the grilled course's Shonai-fu ginkgo-leaf-style grill: I wanted to make a grilled dish using inexpensive Shonai-fu (a wheat-gluten product from…

Persimmon cup with first ice, baby eggplant and arrowhead bulb, tree-ring salmon and yuba roll

For the fried course's persimmon cup with first ice: hollow the persimmon into a cylinder and sear it once with a torch — this brings out more…

Pollock Roe and Daikon Spiral Roll in a Thin Egg Wrapper

Jade Eggplant Surinagashi Abalone Liver Shinjo

As for the clear-soup course's abalone liver shinjo — many guests dislike and avoid abalone liver, so I devised this as a way to use the liver in…

Amagi Wasabi Dressing

For the Amagi wasabi dressing, I order wasabi from the Amagi region and use it in the dressing. Since this dish is made entirely from vegetables, I…

Turnip Kinuta-Maki

The turnip kinuta-maki uses both the turnip's flesh and its stems. The surrounding trimmings can also be used for things like pickles. For the turban…

Nagaimo Somen-Style Saimaki Shrimp

For the appetizer, nagaimo somen-style, I blanch the nagaimo briefly so its sliminess comes off cleanly. As for the saimaki shrimp, since even the…

Turnip and shark fin egg custard, shrimp tsukune with usugaki garnish, cod roe wrapped in yuba, shrimp-shaped taro simmered to soak

For the simmered-dish course's shrimp tsukune, I make it twice a year — once when new spring onions come in, and once in autumn when the firm…

Shrimp fried in a novel style, shrimp shinjo fried in a straw coating