As a Greek, oregano is definitely a staple in our cuisine. When family comes home from Greece I make sure they bring me some good oregano.
The good stuff is so spicy that you can't use too much. It's like eating oil of oregano.
One of my favorite dishes, purely a family recipe, it's to boil oregano with salt and olive oil, and to use this to poach some eggs. SO good :)
I got to try that salt and olive oil. and how do you mean "poach" some eggs? sounds intriguing ;-)
Basically you boil the water with the oregano, the olive oil and the salt. "Poaching" is the way you cook it. After it boils, turn heat to medium . Get a big spoon, swirl the water until it makes a little vortex and then you put the eggs in the middle. Then you have a little soup, and take it off the heat so your eggs don't overcook.
Usually when people poach eggs they don't keep them in the liquid, they will only use it to cook them.
But for this recipe it's all about the whole thing :)