- Put a potato on the boil.
- Peel and cut slices off an onion, using the "hold under running water" trick you recall from over a decade ago.
- Ineptly Julienne up the two chicken drumsticks you got from Sains' the day before.
- Combine ineptly Julienned drumsticks w/onions. Heat in greased pan.
- Using advice from Mum, add ketchup. Forget to turn down the heat.
- Turn away for just a frakking second.
- Turn back to find ketchup in pan burning. Which is kind of the idea, since you wanted it to caramelize somewhat.
- Dump chicken in bowl.
- Dump pan in sink.
- Add partial Laughing Cow wedge to chicken.
- Mix ineffectually for several minutes, then put whole thing in microwave for safekeeping.
- Read "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo".
- Check to see if potatoes are done.
- Remove potatoes from saucepan. Dice ineptly.
- Add butter and slice of sliced cheese. Fail to stir.
- Remove chicken from microwave.
- Realize chicken is now cold. Refrain from heating in possibly-broken microwave.
- Dump the whole mess in a pot, add water. Heat and reduce.
- Dump into bowl.
- Profit.
There were still some bones in the chicken bits, and the potatoes were a bit undercooked, but for a misbegotten souplike concoction, it was actually quite good.