Well, months have gone by, and I finally got around to making your soup for my environmental/recycling group tonight.
When I went to the store to find three large heads of broccoli, the ones I found were pretty large. I think they weighed a little over three pounds. And I had to use four different steamers to steam all the chopped pieces. High volume!
I was running late so used my Cuisinart food processor to chop the onion, and then to chop the garlic. I used three cloves instead of two since I figured some of the garlic would be left on the walls of the food processor. I also added a teaspoon full of pepper instead of the one-half teaspoon your recipe calls for.
I used my mighty VitaMix to make the soup very smooth and creamy.
It ended up making about 3 quarts of soup, and there were 5 people at the meeting. So everyone was able to get a generous portion of soup.
Karen, the best cook in our group, said the soup had "bite." So maybe the one-teaspoon of pepper was a little too much. But she was not complaining, just describing.
Karen and John ("the vegan") both said they liked the soup, but said it could have used some salt. I would have brought along a salt shaker for them if I had known their preferences.
Michael and I both liked the soup as is, no salt needed.
Leslie did not say much, but packed away a portion of the soup to eat tomorrow.
So all-in-all I'd say it went quite well. Thank you for your recipe.