Broccoli and cheese soup

So I love soup for those of you who don't know me. I can eat it for any meal (maybe pushing it for breakfast) but I pretty much eat it all the time...that along with a good nice made sandwich is a gourmet meal to me! So today I tried and make one of my favorite soups from scratch today. Here are the ingredients:

1/2 medium onion chopped
1/4 cup melted butter
1/4 cup flour
2 cups half and half
2 cups chicken stock
1/2 pound fresh broccoli
1 cup carrots
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon pepper
8 ounces grated cheese

Directions 

-Saute onions in a little butter in a small sauce pan (set aside) 

-In a large stock pot, slowly add half and half mixing the entire time

-Melt butter and add flour and mix for three minutes.

-Slowly add chicken stock mixing the entire time.

-Let simmer on low for about 20 minutes

-Add broccoli, carrots, onions and cook on low for 25 min.

-Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg

-Place soup in a blender or use an immersion blender and puree 

-Heat over low heat and add cheese, mix until melted 

For this recipe I've read that some people thought the nutmeg and pepper were a little too over powering and I would have to agree. My soup came out thick but not as thick as I would have liked. Next time I think I will skip over the nutmeg, use only a pinch of pepper and add some garlic to it instead. For the thickness, I read that before letting the initial broth simmer for 20 min, you should let it come to a boil and get nice and thick ( I feel the flour is what makes it that way) But anyway on the whole, this soup came out pretty well for me. I will be trying it again and seeing if I can't improve on anything I messed up on the first time =)