miso soup!
more experimenting with miso soup. i got some red miso paste this time, and tried making niboshi dashi. interesting flavor. the red miso i intense - saltier and less sweet than the white miso. i think i prefer the flavor, just need to use slightly less of it. the niboshi i wasn't as hot on. prepping all the dried sardines is a pain, and the result is very fishy, much more so than the katsuo-bushi, without the nice smokiness. a combination of the two might be nice.