Contents of this week’s Medium share box:

• Bicolor Sweet Corn
• Holy Basil
• New Red Potatoes
• Red Butterhead Lettuce
• Red Chard
• Red Tomatoes
• Shishito Peppers
• Yellow Straightneck Squash

Storage

I boil the sweet corn as soon as possible, then cut the kernels off and store kernels in an container in the fridge. This keeps the flavor, meal preps, and reduces need for fridge space for cobs. Keep cobs in the stock bag in the freezer.

I store the holy basil like most of my herbs — like a vase of flowers. Trim the ends and make sure the ends in the water are leaf-free. Keep in fridge with a plastic bag hat for extra longevity, but I’m enjoying the holy basil aroma on the counter.

New potatoes are fresh, uncured potatoes. The internet says curing is about a week at cool-ish temp, high humidity. Sounds kind of like my house right now.

Tomatoes at room temperature as well. Everything else in the fridge.

Recipes

That sweet scent wafting from the box is the holy basil aka tulsi. You can steep it as a tea, or stir fry it and serve with rice as pad kra pao. And while it is not the same as Thai basil, it’s closer to Thai basil than it is to Genovese basil, so you could sub accordingly.

Remember the shishito pepper fad a few years ago? The easiest prep for them is blistering them over high heat and serving simply with a sprinkle of salt or a dipping sauce. But you could also treat them like a sort of bell pepper/mild jalapeño, a pepper with a good crunch that’s usually pretty mild but sometimes spicy. You don’t see these much, so this is a great candidate for seed saving for next year’s vegetable garden.

Are you drowning in zucchini and yellow straightneck squash? Here are 8 recipes for efficiently using up your summer squash. But if heating up the kitchen sounds absurd right now, there is Zoodles with Italian Dressing, a cold zucchini salad with tomatoes and bell peppers (*ahem* shishito peppers).

Here’s a recipe for Tomato, Peach, and Corn Salad. Fruit share this week had nectarines (and watermelon and cantaloupe) and the Greenbelt Farmers Market and the Greenbelt Co-op have good peaches.

Here’s a recipe for a dense bean salad that calls for tomato and chard with garbanzo beans. An excellent meal prep combo.