Butter

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 *