angela boggiano's spiced chicken noodle soup

Having made two-thirds of the Boggiano poached chicken trilogy, tonight we complete the set with her spiced chicken noodle soup.

If we're being strictly truthful, this was the only part of the triumvirate I ever used to make, with one vague attempt at the creamy chicken, chive and mustard gratin years ago, but this is the first time we've made all three dishes in a vaguely concurrent time frame. Anyway, the trick to all these recipes I've discovered is the noodles - any sort of dried glass noodles are a fast-track to gloopy-awfulness, dried egg noodles or fresh(ish) ones pretty much guarantee success:

Weirdly though this recipe almost slipped through the net as all three of them fell prey to my tidying drive, and ended up not in the Owl book, but somewhat controversially - the veggie Cow Parsley book. I will have to remember this...

sources
creamy chicken, chive and mustard gratin - Angela Boggiano, Delicious, February 2007, p61, now the Parsley book