Appealing appetizers: 3 small dishes for a huge impact at your next party

For The Union-Tribune Soup with benefits. That’s how I like to think of these three recipes from the new restaurant Cherryfish in Pacific Beach, helmed by executive chef Marcus Twilegar. We’re deep into soup season right now, and it’s also almost time for Super Bowl parties, where finger food is everything. Serve them together and you’ll have blissed-out guests. The soup in question is the richest miso soup you may ever have enjoyed. It’s related by name only to the salty, tofu cube-studded broth you usually get at middling sushi restaurants or just-add-water packets in grocery stores. Twilegar’s miso soup is matched by two finger-food dishes you’ve probably also developed familiarity with:...