Basic miso soup

I'm too lazy to put all the recipes on the picture, but just the miso soup recipe!

Ingredients

4 inch piece    kombu (optional)
4 cups             water
1 cup               dried bonito flakes 
3 tbsp              miso paste
1/2 pound        tofu, cut into small cubes
4                      scallions, chopped 

1) add kombu into the water and bring it to boil, add bonito flakes and turn off the heat.
2) after all the bonito flakes settled to the bottom of the pot, strain through a cloth and toss the used kombu and bonito flakes.

 3) start reheating the broth and add miso.  when miso is completely dissolved into the broth add rest of the ingredients into the soup, and it's done!



*After you add miso, do not bring the water to boil.  Boiling miso causes the soup to taste bitter. 

Gochisousama! Saeko