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.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, was it you? Well, if you'd asked, if you'd just let me know you'd taken some, I'd have known not to get so complicated: what with the coriander root and leaf, the chilli, the garlic, the mushrooms, the broccoli, the fish sauce, the lime... Oh - actually, I think I forgot the lime as well. Sigh.

C'n I have my mojo back now, can I? We can share, y'know, we're in totally different timezones here. We can pass it back and forth...

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Sure, but I'll need it again soon--I just had the last of the soup, which was wonderful. But it'll be tomorrow befoe I get out to the market for more stuff.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ah, just help yourself. Now that I know we're sharing, I'll check to make sure it's there when needed. If not, I'll make a sandwich or take something out of the freezer.

So what did you put in the soup, apart from unburnedness?