veggie soup

Today I made some veggie soup out of our cookbook of vegetarian food from the Middle East and North Africa. It has allspice in it. Turns out it tastes just like regular veggie soup. I substituted fresh parsley for fresh cilantro because I don't like cilantro. But still I was surprised when it tasted so commonplace.

"How's the soup?" Erik just asked. He hasn't tasted it--he was doing yoga.

"Boring," I said.

"I bet I'll like it," he said. He likes almost everything.

edit to add: He loves it!