This soup is extremely good! I have made it twice now and the only changes I made were: 1.) instead of canned chicken broth I used the "Basic Vegetable Stock" recipe on this website (reallly good, and easy too!) and 2.) I also added fresh spinach a few minutes before the soup was done cooking. The spinach, in my opinion, really was the finishing touch for this soup. The second time I made it I used cabbage instead of spinach and it was also excellent, though I prefer spinach.