Sanpei’s Soup

My father grew up in a fishing village, so he was very fussy about fish-based dishes. Every time my mother cooked a meal with fish, he would find faults in it and complain to her. 
Despite such behaviour, there was one dish she cooked which he would eat in silence without a word of complaint: “Sanpei’s soup”. My mother later told me that my father had been taught how to make Sanpei’s soup by a fisherman. My father then told my mother, and so she began making it. Time passed, and when I became a cook I was once given the remains of filleted salmon (the head, bones etc.) to use in staff meals. I recall making Sanpei’s soup without thinking twice. However, at the time I couldn’t cook well. After joining this company and hearing about our project to record recipes to pass on to future generations, this dish immediately came to mind. 
Passed on from a fisherman to my father, to my mother, and then on to me, I now hold this dish very close to my heart. I will pass it on to my family too, so that we can enjoy making it together, into the future.