Weekends

Cakes, slow dishes, and the make-ahead cooking that carries the week.

Breakfast tray with simmered beef and potatoes, chilled tofu, miso soup, salad, persimmons and yogurt.

Weekend

Simmered Beef and Potatoes with Miso Soup

Frozen pizza and a cup of corn soup on a kitchen counter.

Weekend

Pizza and Corn Soup

Tray with simmered Wagyu beef and fried tofu, edamame salad, miso soup, mekabu and yam salad, yogurt with banana and nata de coco, and persi

Weekend

Wagyu & Fried Tofu Simmered with Salads & Yogurt

Two homemade pizzas, a salad topped with sliced roast beef, and glasses of red wine on a weekend table

Weekend

Homemade pizza on the weekend

Raw beef and pork slices, shiitake mushrooms, green peppers and eggplant on plates beside a tabletop grill

Weekend

Yakiniku at home with red wine

Whole figs simmering in a dark red enamel pot with a cinnamon stick, for fig compote

Weekend

Fig compote with cinnamon

Slices of seared bonito over lettuce, cucumber and tomato, topped with sliced onion, green onion and grated ginger, with a can of beer

Weekend

Seared bonito salad and a cold beer

Pan-fried gyoza on a blue and white plate beside a bowl of noodle soup with oysters, cabbage and carrot

Weekend

Gyoza and noodle soup with oysters

Slices of sashimi dressed with herbs on a white plate, sautéed chicken on a black plate, and white wine

Weekend

Sashimi and sautéed chicken with white wine

A platter of somen noodles in four colors with dipping sauce, plates of fried chicken, eggplant, cabbage salad with corn, and canned drinks

Weekend

Colored somen and fried chicken for guests