Rika has dinner with Reiko and Ryosuke
~ Bagna Cauda served with a plentiful variety of steamed winter vegetables and a rich anchovy sauce.
~ Thinly cut slices of warmed salt pork.
~ Tofu and leek gratin.
~ Rice cooked in an earthenware pot with vegetables and chopped oysters.
~ Miso soup.
~ Dessert: homemade candied chestnuts; chiffon cake baked with amazakeband rice flour; and cups of gingery chai.
Victim statements
~ I've been lonely so long that if I can find a woman to take care of me when I'm old, I don't really care how ugly she is.
~ I'm not bothered about what she's like, so long as she' the domestic type who'll make me dinner.
~ She might be fat, but she's a real cosseted princess type. There's something unworldly Nd untouched about her.
Le Salon de Miyuko
~ A women-only cooking school set up by Miyuko Sasazuka in the affluent Nishi-Azabu district of Tokyo with fees starting from 15,000 yen per lesson.
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~ In principle, all women should give themselves permission to demand good treatment.
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~ P.S. I'm really curious about the recipe for the beef stew that you made for Mr Yamamura. I'd be delighted if you'd share it with me.
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~ I learned from my late father that women should show generosity towards everyone. But there were two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine.
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~ Add Echire butter and soy sauce to freshly cooked rice. Cool butter and warm rice.
~ It tastes like you're falling.
~ It was a taste that could only be described as golden.
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Tarako Pasta
~ Spaghetti with Calpis butter, pollock roe and shiso leaves.
~ Fish roe and butter makes for a truly exquisite pairing!
~ The blend of pink and fresh green puts me in mind of a countryside field in April.
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Traditional izakaya dishes
~ Braised burdock root
~ Edamame
~ Atka mackerel
~ Tofu simmered in dashi
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New Years Day food served in Tokyo Detention House
~ Ozoni soup
~ Red and white manju
~ Tiered bento box containing a selection of osechi
~ Deep-fried chicken
~ Nishime
~ Pork kakuni
~ Grilled fish
~ Simmered prawns
~ Kazunoko
~ Yokan
~ Datemaki
~ Pink and white kamaboko
~ Kuri-kinton
~ Kuromame
~ Fruit
~ Pure white rice
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Traditional dishes particular to the Niigata region
~ Noppe (a simmered vegetable stew made with ratovabd shitake).
~ Hizunumasu (pickled cartilage from the salmon's head).
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Dinner for One at Joel Robuchon
~ Amuse bouche of lemon rind jelly
~ Bread and butter
~ Chilled avocado and snow crab topped with caviar and pomegranate seeds
~ Grilled foie gras accompanied by dried persimmons sauteed in butter
~ Flounder in white lemony sauce
~ Caramelised pork served with truffles and silky corn mash plus a popping candy surprise
~ Dessert: an Impressionist painting composed of fig confit and mascarpone, cakes, and coffee
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Soup for indigestion made by Reiko
~ Scallions, daikon, goji berries and ginger.
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Japanese bistro currently in vogue on the main Kagurazaka district
Healthy meals that use plenty of organic vegetables:
~ Tofu caprese
~ Root vegetable ratatouille
~ Brown rice paella with basket clams
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Teppanyaki at Miyazaki
~ Water shield
~ White asparagus spears in white sauce
~ A selection of grilled vegetables
~ Aged sirloin steak
~ Rice cooked in garlic butter and the leftover meat juices
~ Dessert: caramelised apple with ice-cream
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Ramen restaurant on Yasukuni-dori in Shinjuku
Salt butter ramen with harigane noodles to be consumed:
~ Immediately after having sex
~ At three or four in the morning
~ The colder the weather the better
~ Plenty of butter
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Quatre quarts / pound cake
150g egg
150g flour
150g butter
150g granulated sugar
Optional:
Zest of organic Japan-grown lemon
Vanilla essence
Glaze finished product with rum
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Kajii's recommendations for restaurants and food to try in Niigata (Snow Country)
~ Praline cake eaten at festivities and gatherings
~ Raisin and buttercream swirl pastries
~ Le Lecturer yokan
~ Butter from Sado Island
~ Kenshin junmai ginjo sake
~ Buttery waffles at the chain of restaurants owned by Kaji's local yoghurt factory
~ The place in the old town serving a bowl of rice and topped with a large cutlet
~ The set meal served on a tray in the restaurant that specialised in rice cooked on a traditional stove
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Akiyama's Dairy Farm
The milk tasted like sunlight spreading out across the tongue.
Yoghurt waffle with whipped butter.
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Masako cooks sekihan
Red rice and cream stew.
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Macaroni gratin.
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Madame's cookery school
~ Soupe de poisson
~ Carrot, onion and cumin pie
~ Lamb with orange
~ Strawberry mousse
~ Crepe Suzette
~ Sea urchin with beurre blanc sauce
~ White asparagus in a hollandaise sauce.
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~ Roast turkey stuffed with giblets, chestnuts, pine nuts and mochi rice.
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* Information taken from the book 'Butter' written by Asako Yuzuki *
