Green Things: Nepitella and Gremolata

Uh, what? We've been ordering from Naturally to Your Door for about three months now. The green things that come in the box have been pretty standard: kale, arugula, bok choy, celery, butter lettuce, spinach, green garlic, rosemary, thyme and basil. 

This week we received a little surprise gift just for being a customer: a small package of Nepitella. I had never heard of this herb, so the attached description was quite useful. It is something of a cross between mint and oregano and grows wild in Italy. One suggestion was to serve it with mushrooms, so I tossed it in with this black bean and millet bowl recipe with maitake mushrooms, instead of the shiitake ones the recipe called for. Nepitella has a great fresh flavor, definitely more mint than oregano.

Some other green things that come in my produce box, that I usually discard, are bunches of carrot tops. Each week I get something like five medium-sized carrots, but the green tops are about two feet long and take up so much space in the box. The company suggests storing root veggies like carrots and beets in a bowl of water in the fridge, which means I usually have to trim off all the excess greenery so the carrots will fit in my fridge. Well, the other day I came across this recipe for carrot top gremolata. Follow this link, and I'll let sb&gb explain...