Kasu-jiru — warming the inner cockles

 

Kasu-jiru: miso soup made with plenty of warming sake-kasu (the lees from sake-making).

In this case the sake in question is Tenryo daiginjo, brewed in the uplands of Gifu Prefecture. Which, not coincidentally, is the same sake we were drinking – warmed as atsukan, of course.

We need all the hearty sustenance we can get on these chilly late-February nights.

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