Sopa de Chairo (Chairo Soup)

I don't eat soup often, and when I do, it's usually not from a can or a package. Yet, this is an exception.

I'm half Bolivian and I've had this soup mix for gosh, knows how long, but it's dried ingredients inside.. so I decided to give it a try anyway.

I also can't go out and get it-- I think. It's this chairo soup, a bolivian soup made of chuno (supposed to have that ~ over the n; it is dehydrated potatoes, onion, carrots, potatoes, white corn called choclo, and spices.). Bolivians make good soup; my abuela (grandmother) makes the best soup. So, I added a potato (did you know that Bolivia and Peru are THE places to find good potatoes?) and yum... this is the second best thing to eating soup made by my abuela. She would laugh too, if she knew that I was making soup this way and eating it in a bowl that I've made.

Hmmm gotta see if I can find this brand of soup here in the States.
My father is going to visit our extended family there and I hope to send some small bowls for my abuelos and aunts and uncles there. :) How I miss them!