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Trough shell clam in vinegared miso dressing

This is a way of using the last of the season’s trough shell clams. When I think of spring, cherry sea bream and cherry salmon also come to mind, but…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 30 min

Sea Cucumber Tomo-Ae with Red Turnip

For the sea cucumber tossed with its own salted innards, paired with red turnip, I remove the sea cucumber's innards through the vent, julienne it…

• ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke

This is a rice-course dish developed using jasmine tea. (Jasmine tea, 30g: 350 yen.) For Heshiko Jasmine Tea Chazuke, I used heshiko, mackerel cured…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Sea bream roe simmered tosa-style with bonito flakes, thin-sliced octopus steeped in a sake-based seasoning sauce, clams steamed with rice, beltfish rolled with butterbur shoots, smoked bonito

There are five appetizers, arranged in groups of two and three. The first is sea bream roe simmered tosa-style. For the sansho-leaf jelly poured over…

Nori-Grilled Tiger Pufferfish Milt, New Bamboo Shoot and Jidori Chicken

“Knorr® Chicken Consommé” makes generous use of extract from fresh, domestic mature hens (“rōkei”), together with chicken meat and chicken fat…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 5 hr

Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Simmered Sea Bream Roe, Octopus Sakura-ni

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. This is the simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥290

• Cook time 2 hr

Deep-fried young sweetfish in new-tea batter, sea urchin deep-fried hosho-style

This is a fried dish course. For the young sweetfish in new tea batter, since new tea (shincha) comes out in May, I grind the new tea leaves and…

• ¥600

• Cook time 15 min

Horsehair Crab

Served in place of the sunomono. I use only the green, well-colored outer leaves of the Brussels sprouts. The celery dressing underneath is extremely…

Suppon Dashi Bursts Out! Soy Meat Tempura

Even when I cooked block-type soy meat as a meat substitute, its distinctive aroma was hard to eliminate no matter how strongly I seasoned it from…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Steamed sushi

This is the rice course, an arrangement of the Fukushima local dishes wappa-meshi, rice served in a bentwood box, and hokkimeshi, surf clam rice. For…

• Serves 3 · ¥780

• Cook time 2 hr

Hakata-style layered freeze-dried tofu, carp burdock roll, glazed leaf-cut squash, and lightly simmered kuruma prawns

We have arranged the Fukushima local dishes carp umani and freeze-dried tofu for a new era. This time it is a takiawase. Hakata-style freeze-dried…

• Serves 3 · ¥950

• Cook time 2 hr

Prized abalone with spring vegetables and shark fin

As for the fukura awabi with spring vegetables and shark fin, it was made in a small hot-pot style. Abalone has a sense of luxury and refined umami…

• ¥933

• Cook time 2 hr

Shinshu salmon and avocado salad, char, scallop and hosta shoots, green asparagus terrine, tender-simmered abalone, Shinshu golden shamo chicken with cheese

This is a set of five appetizers. For the Shinshu salmon and avocado salad, the Shinshu salmon is warm-smoked at around 30 to 50°C for about ten…

Deep-fried salt-dried tilefish with fermented bonito innards sauce

For this additional course, designed with presentation in mind, I expressed ‘warmth.’ To bring out warmth at its best, I think nothing beats a…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 30 min

Kumquat-Tea Grilled Kagoshima Chicken, Kagoshima Chicken Tea-Leaf Miso Pickle

I used Akadori Satsuma, a Kagoshima branded meat chicken. For the kumquat-tea grilled Kagoshima chicken: kumquat skin is delicious on its own, so I…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 6 hr

Ichigo-ni rice in hot broth

This is the hot-water course served near the end of the meal. Since this book comes out in May, it’s a good time of year to use a bronze soup vessel…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup

For 'Washi-Paper-Baked Herbal Tea Soup,' I treated caffeine-free herbal tea as a dashi drawn with tea. I built it into a soup together with sea…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Sakura-dai Sawani-wan

This makes use of a spring ingredient — this time, sakura-dai, a cherry-blossom-season sea bream. This is a clear-soup course. For the sakura-dai…

• Serves 1 · ¥595

• Cook time 20 min

Mirugai, Udo, and Wasabi Aemono

This was devised as an additional hearty course to make use of giant clam in season: giant clam, udo, and wasabi aemono. In my own sense of it, this…

• Serves 5 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 30 min

Squid paste dressed with salt-fermented bonito, asparagus and red-spotted masu salmon cold-smoked roll, young ayu with sansho-bud miso, scallop and Shadow Queen potato sweet-flag-motif jelly, salt-cured duck loin

For the appetizers, the paprika used for color in the squid paste dressed with shuto is first grilled directly over the flame, peeled, cut into small…

Koya-dofu Beef Liver Steak Style, with Herb Butter Sauce

I wanted to create a health-conscious menu using freeze-dried tofu, which is high in protein. Since I have long experience cooking Western cuisine, I…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 20 min

Horse meat jibu-ni, herring rolled in fried tofu skin, carp fluffy steamed fish dumpling, and Hakata-style layered napa cabbage

This is a modern arrangement of three representative Fukushima local dishes, presented as a takiawase using horse meat, sansho-pickled herring, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Spiny lobster simmered in the shell with egg yolk

This is the simmered course. The menu lists it as shiradatsu — the taro stem also known as zuiki — but blanched taro shoots can be used in its place…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Plum hot water

First is the welcome course. Many restaurants serve something like salted cherry blossom in hot water, but I learned of this one at Eihei-ji. At…