Spot what's missing

[desperance]

I am already famous for my hopeless memory. If I'm building a dish of many components, it's standard for me to forget to add one or more; if I'm serving a banquet in someone else's house, I'll often forget a whole course. I've come almost to expect the slightly plaintive phone-call next day, "Chaz, what exactly are we supposed to do with the octopus...?"

Today, in my ongoing struggle with not-being-entirely-well, I thought chicken and noodle soup would be the thing for lunch. It all got a bit complicated in the kitchen, what with two pans and the soup-bowl all needing different things thrown in at different times. No surprise, then, that I forgot a couple of ingredients.

Have you figured out what they were yet?

Yup. The chicken, and the noodles.