4 japanese mushi Recipes

eggs, japanese fish stock or ichiban dashi, shitake mushrooms, stems removed, chicken breast, cut into bite size pieces, shrimp, peeled and deveined, cilantro leaves, salt, soy sauce

instant dashi powder (japanese soup stock granules), mirin (sweet japanese rice wine), reduced-sodium soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, shelled fresh peas (from about 1/2 lb pods) or frozen peas, thawed, baby shrimp or 4 large shrimp, peeled, deveined, coarsely chopped if large, shiitake mushroom caps, finely chopped, eggs, scallions, whites and pale greens only, thinly sliced

olive oil plus a little extra for oiling the baking pan, unflavored dry bread crumbs, divided (i have used 12 grain bread or healthy bread, ie whatever i have that was getting ready to go green so turned into breadcrumbs), ripe, but not mushy , tomatoes, eggplant, unpeeled but rinsed and patted dry (i don tsp get the big ones, instead i get the ones that are smaller or even the japanese type, less seeds, less bitter . farmers market is the place to find the smaller eggplant), garlic, chopped flat leaf parsley, sea salt, freshly ground black pepper, herbes de provence (see note )