Cream Soup

Crema de Camarones (Creamy Shrimp Soup)

12 comments November 26, 2012

Crema de Camarones is a creamy soup from the city of Cartagena de Indias in Colombia. This beautiful city is located on the Caribbean Coast and is the capital of the Bolívar department of Colombia. The city of Cartagena was declared part of the UNESCO World Heritage in 1984. This wonderful city has old Spanish [...]

Read the full article →

Crema de Garbanzos (Chickpeas Pureed Soup)

11 comments May 11, 2012

Crema de Garbanzos, or Chickpeas Pureed Soup, is a traditional soup from the Cundinamarca department of Colombia. Pureed soups are very popular in Colombia, and I grew up eating many different types of my mom’s homemade cremas, or pureed soups. Actually you can find different packaged cream soups in most Colombian supermarkets, and Crema de [...]

Read the full article →

Crema de Arvejas (Pea Soup)

8 comments March 15, 2012

Here’s a fresh and easy pea soup recipe for spring. Now this is what I call a delicious soup! It’s exactly what I like to have when I am craving a good hot soup and is the perfect dish to have on a rainy day. This Crema de Arvejas is a popular soup in the [...]

Read the full article →

Sopa o Crema de Tomate con Albahaca (Tomato and Basil Soup)

9 comments March 6, 2012

Tomato soup is popular all over the world and there are, of course, many variations of this simple soup. This is my mom’s Sopa de Tomate recipe. I hated it as a kid, but now I can’t get enough of it! This soup was something that I threw together for lunch the other day while [...]

Read the full article →

Spinach, Potato, Dill and Carrot Soup

6 comments February 17, 2012

You can never have too many soup recipes, especially this time of year, and a bowl of soup with spinach, carrots and potatoes, really hits the spot. We all really liked it here, I had 2 bowls full of this creamy and delicious soup. What a great combination of ingredients! This soup makes for a [...]

Read the full article →

Mushroom Soup (Sopa de Champiñones)

45 comments January 4, 2010

Winter is a wonderful time of the year to enjoy warm and comforting soups. This soup has to be the best mushroom soup I’ve ever had and without a doubt the best one I’ve ever made, so rich and tasty. My husband particularly enjoyed it and said that this was the best thing I had [...]

Read the full article →

Creamy Vegetable Soup (Crema de Verduras)

7 comments October 16, 2009

This soup was inspired by mom’s sopa de verduras. As a little girl, I was a very finicky eater and that was at a time when grandmothers thought that if you weren’t a little fat, you weren’t healthy . So, my mom and grandmother did everything they could to get me to eat. My mom [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries