I'm busy making my yearly batch of miso right now, but I really want to make some tasty pastes later on in the year, before it gets too hot. Besides the shiitake tasty paste, I'm going to try Fig tasty paste. We grow a lot of figs and this one is pretty easy to make. I don't have the recipe in front of me, but it's basically fig puree, mixed with some salty miso and fermented for a couple of weeks. Apricot tasty paste sounds good too, but we aren't growing any apricots, so I'd have to buy them dried and sulphured.