Miso hungry?

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Not so much.  The title gives it away though.  Miso, a Japanese, Asian in general, soup.  There are several ways to make it.  From "scratch", with a specific sort of miso base, bonito (shaved dried fish chips, which my cats are starting to like), dashi kombu (a specific sort of dried seaweed), and for me this time dried shiitake mushrooms.  Now, this doesn't actually make a soup, it makes a stock.  As well, there is a form of this which is all incorporated into small granules or pellets which, all on it's own, will produce the stock.

What you add to the stock will depend in part on what you might like with it and what will go with it.  I, personally, have no clue, currently.  Another form of seaweed will go in, the shiitakes are an add, and I am going to try something different, some smaller dices of beef.  That might fly like a lead balloon and yet that is how I do.  I won't use tofu.  I despise tofu.  However, I might try milder fish, seafood, various vegetables, and... who knows.  I may well end up not liking it.  If that isn't the full point in this case.  Why eat this?  Potassium.  Not just a hit, but a fist, or face, full of it.  It can be high in salt, but that is probably less the issue than potassium, and can be mitigated a bit.

Of course, I jumped in without a clue.  While things were steeping, I went looking.  Here is a basic, from scratch, video.  Yeah, I have the wrong seaweed, currently.  The rest is correct.  I added dried shiitake on my own, which actually seems common from what I have seen and read.  I... didn't say ever last syllable, no, but...  We'll see.  I am letting it cool, and the mushrooms steep.  I won't but sample a small bowl, with some beef.  If it doesn't work, and it might not, no big loss.

I am not truly hungry.  So if it's a total flop I am not out.  And, yet, if I really don't like it?  My goal is to figure out what it would take to like it.  Edible potassium is vital, as I see things.  Even just a strong boost a few times a week.  The water pill is nasty, dumps everything.  I'm surprised that alone hasn't offed me.  But if this doesn't work, I have something in the wings.  And I'll consider what might control the fishy flavor, or absorb it, so such.  Bland fish?  Other meats?  I just don't know.  Later.