Make the creamiest, coziest Potato Leek Soup using fresh ingredients and a simple trick: infused cream steeped with thyme and peppercorns. This farm-fresh recipe is smooth, velvety, and deeply comforting — perfect for weeknights, meal prep, or when your crop share hands you more potatoes and leeks than you bargained for.
Learn how to sweat your aromatics, blend to perfection, and finish with Dough Daddy’s signature touches.

Turn your veggie scraps into liquid gold. This is the simplest, cleanest vegetable stock you can make, no salt, no fancy ingredients, just pure flavor from the stuff most people throw away.

In this video, I show you how to take parsley stems, onion scraps (yes, skins too), celery ends, carrot peels, and leek tops and turn them into a rich, aromatic stock perfect for soups, stews, sauces, risotto… basically anything that deserves better than water.

This is zero-waste cooking with max payoff. A gentle simmer for 1–1½ hours, a quick strain, and boom, you’ve got homemade stock that blows store-bought out of the water. Freeze it, stash it, and use it whenever you want to level up your cooking.

Ingredients used:
Parsley stems, onion + skins, celery, carrots, leeks, garlic (optional), mushroom stems (optional).
Cook time: 1–1½ hrs
Seasoning: ZERO salt, always season later

These braised short ribs are what happens when patience meets fire. Dry-brined overnight, seared hard, then slowly melted in red wine, beef stock, and aromatics until they’re fork-tender and dripping with flavor. This is old-school comfort food with chef-level depth, the kind of meal that makes the house smell like Sunday dinner and keeps people hovering in the kitchen asking, “How much longer?” Serve these with mashed potatoes, polenta, or just a big spoon and zero shame

This Roman classic is proof that a few simple ingredients can hit like a symphony.
Guanciale, tomatoes, Pecorino Romano, and pasta, that’s it. Each one has a job to do.
I like to sneak in a little red wine for depth, but that’s optional.
Keep it simple, use quality ingredients, and don’t overthink it. This dish rewards restraint.