More garden harvest and some potato soup

Last night we had a really great dinner of soup and salad. Carlos made his signature Colombian soup and I made a salad using two new lemon cucumbers that we had just harvested from the garden -- that cucumber plant is producing a lot of fruits!

The Colombian potato soup centers around the use of small, yellow Colombian potatoes: papas criollas. We made this soup while we were home in Washington last August, but we couldn't find papas criollas in any of the markets -- too far from Latin America I guess. These potatoes are pretty bright yellow and small (~2-3 cm in length). Here is a comparison with a yukon gold potato.

The soup was delicious and the light fresh taste of our home-grown lemon cucumbers made a nice salad!