10 Ways Tuesday: Spring Onions

10 Ways Tuesday: Spring Onions

I’ve got creative recipes for cooking with spring onions: 1.  Frittata Basically a quiche without the pastry crust, the frittata is a rustic Italian baked egg dish that’s best suited to spring cooking. It’s a forgiving technique: sauté thinly sliced...
Ingredient of the Week: Spring Onions

Ingredient of the Week: Spring Onions

Spring onions are the pantry ingredient of the week at la Domestique. These sweet and succulent Alliums are merely immature red, yellow, or white onions. Harvested early, spring onions have generous green leaves and long thin stalks. Their flesh is moist and delicate,...
Spring Pea & Herb Salad with Extra-Virgin Olive Oil

Spring Pea & Herb Salad with Extra-Virgin Olive Oil

Olive Oil, More Than Just a Commodity Olive oil- to us, it’s just food. Many of us here in the U.S. have never seen a gnarled olive tree. Olive oil comes from isle 9 in the grocery store, with no history, no context, only pictures on bottle labels depicting...
10 Ways Tuesday: Olive Oil

10 Ways Tuesday: Olive Oil

  I’ve got creative recipes for cooking with olive oil during spring:   1.  Salad Dressing Watching Jamie Oliver dress a salad with olive oil gets me excited. He’s easygoing about it, adding a splash of olive oil and a squeeze of lemon- no...
Ingredient of the Week: Olive Oil

Ingredient of the Week: Olive Oil

During spring I begin to crave the freshly pressed, peppery, herbal flavor of olive oil. In the winter months I tend to use butter more in my cooking, but spring is a time for sitting on the patio with a glass of rosé, dragging ragged pieces of crusty bread through a...