miso
Miso soup wrapup, and choosing and caring for lacquered soup bowls
The top black bowl is resin; the bottom two are real lacquered bowls. continue reading...
A week of miso soup, day 5: Ground shrimp, ginger and miso
A week of miso soup, day 4: Hokkaido-style corn, chicken and cabbage soup with miso
Today's miso soup may not look like miso soup, but it does have miso in it. It shows how to use miso as a background flavoring, instead of the predominant one. Since it has milk and a little butter in it, I've called it Hokkaido style after the northenmost main island in the archipelago that makes up Japan. continue reading...
A week of miso soup, day 3: Grilled eggplant (aubergine) and mushroom
A week of miso soup, day 1: Zucchini miso soup

Continuing my series on Japanese home cooking, this week I would like to introduce different kinds of miso soup. Miso soup (miroshiru) is one of the key parts of a Japanese meal. Another kind of soup that is served often is a clear soup called osumashi, but the miso soup base is more adaptable to all kinds of variations. continue reading...
Japanese basics: miso and miso soup
[Update:] See an updated miso soup how-to with step by step photos.









