Great recipe, but requires a few tweaks. As many have mentioned, using the water amount recommended makes the soup incredibly thick. Most will definitely want to add more water, but what is important to remember is if you are going to add more water, you will have more soup, and some of the key ingredients adding to the flavor, such garlic, salt, onion, parsley get watered down as well. So keep in mind you will probably want to use more of all these ingredients, especially the garlic. I'd recommend at least double the 3 cloves they recommend, and even 10 or more doesn't seem to overdo it. I did not think it required more celery, carrots or potato...