"This recipe is a delicious and a great change from the typical broccoli soups that are just cream or cheese based. Because of my dietary restrictions, I did make a couple changes such as omitting the butter and cream. I used olive oil and I felt the soup was creamy enough without cream. As per another reviewer's suggestion, I added garlic and red pepper just to use up some other things I had. Hey Neelys, thanks for the tasty recipe!