Zucchini-Rice Soup with Basil and Parmesan

A simple and humble soup, with fresh ingredients. The soup's mildness in part comes from using water (called for in the recipe), but if I repeated I would substitute a broth. If your ingredients are truly fresh (other than the rice and cheese, all came directly from the garden), its very nice. Its fine for a light family dinner, with toast, or would be OK as a first course. It used most of an over-grown zucchini.

I was leafing through the cookbooks at the library, and this book opened directly to this page. Not having to go buy anything is a huge bonus. It seemed as if I were meant to prepare this. Unfortunately, my quick trip to the apple store (my son's phone ended up being replaced by a new one) took longer than expected, and lucky me, my DH prepared it for us.