My email was down for two days

In which time the soup post got nearly 500 spam comments. I have despaired of deleting them all and deleted the entry, so here’s the recipe again:

Chop 6-8 potatoes and 3-4 onions (depending on size. )
Put potatoes to soak in salted water.
In a heavy pot with a lid, combine onions and a generous knob of butter, turn to medium-low and cover.
Go watch an episode of Elementary*
Drain potatoes and add to pot with a large handful of frozen mirepoix (diced onion, celery and carrots), one box of chicken or vegetable broth, salt, pepper, tarragon, savoury, and dill to taste.
Turn to medium, replace lid, go watch another episode.
Add 2 cups potato flakes to thicken and two cups of milk or one cup of milk and one of cream. Turn to low.
Go watch a third episode. Put it on pause halfway through for long enough to stir the soup.
Put a loaf of frozen bread in the oven on 300F while you grate 1 cup emmenthal or similar cheese and fry 1/2 lb bacon to crisp. Sprinkle bacon and cheese on top of soup and eat, possibly while watching more Elementary.

*you can watch something else if you want, as long as it's roughly 45 minutes long.