Caldo Verde-Portuguese Green Soup-It always felt like a special day when my mother made this soup. As the soup cooked my mother would tell us stories of our great grandparents who came from the Azores and farmed in the early days..Having 20 children in all, and as a little girl running over to her grandparents house to help make bread or to wash the kitchen floor. She would weave stories of her childhood as she stirred the pot. Beautiful moments spent with my mom that as a child I took for granted..