Cindy Fuller wrote:

We made the dashi broth from
> scratch, something I'd never done before, and soaked the shiitake
> mushrooms.

>
> After we had finished eating, the phone rang again. It was my student's
> mother: "I'm bringing over some of this soup. It's wonderful!" And it
> was. Dashi made from scratch is a whole lot better than the envelopes
> of dashi-no-moto (think dashi bouillon) that turned me off 20+ years
> ago.


That was a nice thing you did. Now where's the recipe?

gloria p