Indian-Spiced Yellow Split Pea Soup

Well, it's not a great picture but it's not a great soup, so I guess it's fitting.  None of the boys liked it.  #2 ate the most consuming a massive three bites.  #3 spit his first bite out but then proceeded to eat another.  As I type this #1 is still sitting here staring ate his bowl not having taken his one required bite.  #4 tried hers but then quickly began playing with it and adding raisins.  I'm pretty certain that didn't help with the taste.

The soup itself is sorely lacking in flavor.  I know it's meant to be vegetarian but if I were to ever make this again, I would use chicken stock in place of most of the water (if not all.)  I made my bowl a bit more palatable by adding more cayenne pepper.  Rather than serve ours over rice, I opted to give the kids pitas for them to dip thinking it might encourage them to eat more.  I was mistaken about them but I did like the pita.  

Here's the recipe I used:

http://www.familycircle.com/recipe/soups/indian-spiced-yellow-split-pea-soup/