Second & Third Acts of a Soup. :-)
Well, I still had some meatballs and some watercress in a fair bit of broth from the soup posted here...so I added in a few dollops of gelled chicken stock, water, and handfuls of trimmed sweet basil, used as a vegetable. (I often do this) Simmered to rewarm before adding the basil to wilt into it then simmering for less than a minute more. But – I was also chomping on this-and-that, and managed to eat only part of the bowl of soup. Soooo...later, I boosted the soup with more water & gelled chicken stock, added in chunks of firm tofu, and at the end put in several "pieces"/"sheets" of "fresh" fine rice noodles (Vietnamese-type). This I demolished. :-)
The trimmed basil soaking...
About 3/4 of the batch shown in the picture; there's about 5-6 inches of trimmed basil below the surface... ;-)
Soup, Act 2. Soup, Act 3.
The fine rice noodles used.
And, afterwards, two slices of the cantaloupe-honeydew hybrid that Van Antwerp's Farm grows...
