— Denise Tarasuk

So, you know, in, I, in terms of Japanese food, um, uh, you know, what I've, uh, been doing for the last several years, uh, at least, um, during the school year, is just, is making miso soup in the morning, um, for, uh, our, our son's breakfast. And, um, I mean, that's, uh, that's just one item, but that's a very versatile item that's also good for you. Uh, it's a versatile in the sense that obviously you can add different things to it as it as internal ingredients, but you can also vary the type of miso, uh, and the type of dashi that you use. Um, you know, if you're okay using, uh, the more typical or traditional Japanese dashi, uh, which is, um, based on, um, bonito, you know, which is a type of tuna fish that's dried and, and, uh, shaved, and then that's sied, uh, along with, um, kobu or, uh, kelp, um, excuse me, that gives a certain flavor profile. If you take out the bonito, you can find other dried fish varieties that are used, um, for that flavor slot. Okay? So you can introduce a variation, uh, you can add more or less combo. Um, you can eliminate the, the fish altogether and, and make, um, uh, just a hundred percent kbu dashi. You can make, uh, a shi ta dashi. You can combine those two. You can, there's just, um, uh, different, different, um, bases that you can use for flavor. Um, and in that way, you can come up with, uh, these soups that, you know, you might find you like for breakfast or maybe if, um, uh, you've got some friends coming over you, you, you like it this other way for dinner with these other things that you're serving. Um, so, you know, that's probably my favorite place, uh, to introduce some of those comfortable flavors, um, that I grew up with, uh, very simply and, and, uh, in a very enjoyable sort of way. Right? Um, you know, when it comes to internal ingredients, there's seasonal vegetables, there's tofu, tofu of course, comes in different styles, different firmness and, and, and, uh, you know, water contents. And so all of that can add, um, palate experiences just in this one soup.