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Sudachi Soba: Soba, Sudachi

The sudachi soba is hand-made using buckwheat flour from the Shirakami Mountains, decorated attractively with slices of sudachi, and served in a…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Kuruma prawn and abalone denpo-yaki, lily bulb, ginkgo nut, Daikoku shimeji, maple-leaf-cut carrot, ginkgo-leaf-cut kabocha, silver sauce

This time, we will be looking at Denpo-yaki. It is a dish cooked in earthenware, and is also called…

Moonlit-night soup, rabbit meatball, small scallion, goji berries

As for the name "Moonlight Wan," I heard that just like horse meat was called "sakura" and wild boa…

• Serves 1 · ¥281

• Cook time 10 min

Steam-Simmered Taro

Let me introduce some of the everyday vegetable work we do at Yonemura, where I work. Steam-simmered taro is a dish we include in our osechi (New…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 1 weeks

Botan Shrimp and New Potato Soup

As part of using spring ingredients at their peak, first catch, and last of the season, this uses the first catch of botan shrimp. This is served in…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

Spicy cod roe cheese, oyster nori rolls, yam and bottarga, smoked salmon lotus root rolls, ginkgo nuts

We arranged this as a small appetizer-style plate. For the mentaiko cheese, process cheese is cut into small cubes, steamed, and combined with…

Monkfish liver, monkfish jellied broth

This is part of an effort to cope with rising food costs. At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Steamed Chicken with Nametake Sauce

At our membership-based restaurants, I make a sample using ingredients that can be reliably obtained, and have each restaurant prepare it themselves…

• Serves 1 · ¥150

• Cook time 40 min

Spring turnip and Date chicken wings takiawase

As May approaches, the sharp morning and evening chill settles down, comfortable days increase day by day, and there are even days when the heat of…

Shiba shrimp mino-age (oyster shin-biki-age, fried root vegetable with cheese, ginkgo-leaf-cut sweet potato, dead-branch-cut burdock, rice-ear garnish, sudachi)

This time, we learned about "agemono" from new master Masaya Tsuji (Wanmiya, Shibadaimon). We will focus on "tsukuage".

Filefish, Grilled Matsutake Mushroom, Cauliflower Mushroom

Since aroma was the theme given to us, I'd like to introduce it by building on our everyday work. Rather than the bold, assertive fragrance of…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Tofu-Wrapped Grilled Offal — a Favorite of the Boss

I used offal, which the boss at the dojo I've long been indebted to is fond of, and named the dish accordingly. I rehydrate the offal in a pressure…

• Serves 2 · ¥110

• Cook time 20 min

Misaki-gazami in Kabosu Crystal Jelly

Building on autumn ingredients, I used Misaki-gazami, a treasure of the sea from Oita Prefecture, known in the classical era as Toyo-no-kuni, where…

• Serves 1 · ¥135

• Cook time 1 hr

Porcini Mushroom Chawanmushi

I was taught that porcini mushrooms differ in texture and flavor depending on the part, so I put the crisp, crunchy stem into the savory steamed egg…

• Serves 6 · ¥895

• Cook time 3 hr

Fully ripe persimmon and Kyoho grape with yogurt, honey, pomegranate

Tags & categories related to this post : October, November, August, September, light and refreshing, crisp and refreshing, simple, fruity, recipes…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 5 min

Cod Oyako Clear-Soup

This is the clear-soup course. For the Cod Oyako Clear-Soup — oyako meaning "parent and child," pairing cod flesh with cod roe — in the Tohoku region…

• Serves 1 · ¥570

• Cook time 30 min

Tomato, cheese, and baby sardine salad

Under the theme of heritage dishes. I previously introduced "chirimen sansho simmer," and this is a dish that makes use of it. Here it is finished…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 15 min

Medicinal cuisine style, suppon shiratama-wrapped dumpling

A repeat-visit dish aimed at guests in their 20s and 30s. Why it resonates: adopting yakuzen (medicinal cuisine), currently a boom among young women…

• Serves 1 · ¥330

• Cook time 1 hr

Matsutake mushroom simmered shigure-style, mackerel checkerboard pressed sushi, lily bulb with chrysanthemum fragrance, sweetfish grilled with its own roe, yam bulbils in a diced coating, mustard-stuffed lotus root, mochi and ginkgo nuts tossed with sea urchin

Making Vegetables Delicious

We developed a new-sensation dashi using garlic with its odor suppressed, as part of "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine." Since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,308

• Cook time 20 min

Eggplant burger (fruit tomato, soft-poached quail egg, Parmigiano, Kamoji scallion)

When people hear 'charcoal-grilled,' many picture yakitori, so I sandwich tare-glazed tsukune between slices of eggplant, giving it a burger style…

• Serves 1 · ¥210

• Cook time 50 min

Pike conger karaage

This is the prep work for hamo. At my restaurant we process hamo by boiling it whole, so when I source hamo, I ask the supplier not to remove the…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 5 min

Smoked Swimming Crab

The restaurant where I work is centered on shellfish and crustaceans, and our work smoking seafood has a good reputation, so I thought about giving…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Chrysanthemum and grated daikon salad, octopus simmered with adzuki beans, monkfish liver in savory aspic, morel, papaya, and white kidney bean tofu dressing, Tatsutagawa tofu, served in a kabosu shell, hagi shinjo

For the octopus simmered with adzuki beans, briefly parboiling the octopus in tea first turns it a deep red color. I then simmer it slowly in…