Cold-weather soup

It actually isn't that cold, but Kenneth thought it would be, so he cooked wintermelon soup. That wintermelon was from, where else?, Russo's. First, chicken was boiled for a couple of hours with some chunks of ham, then the skinned wintermelon was added with mushrooms and the soup allowed to simmer until the wintermelon became translucent. Then some slivers of ham were added just before serving.

We had the soup with rice after coming back from a kayak rolling lesson at a campus swimming pool. It was a first for us, and we got home really hungry. Wintermelon soup really is comfort food.