Homemade grilled tacos. Quick-grilled beef on warm tacos with a bright salsa. During the summer, it seems that getting supper on the table is more about "quick assembly" than real cooking. Oh sure, we might have to cook one thing or another, but only as a contribution to the supper assembly line. Salads. Cold suppers. Meat from the grill. Ahhh, the ease that summer delivers. This taco supper was quick and easy and decidedly tasty. It offers a million riffs: pork or chicken rather than beef. Red cabbage or lettuce instead of Napa cabbage. A whole new set of salsa ingredients. And those are just the "obvious" changes. Ah, the ease that summer delivers. ALANNA's TIPS There's enough meat to fill eight tacos. The whole wheat tortillas were especially good when warmed through on the grill. Yum. BEEF TACOS is adapted from The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life by Ellie Krieger. My friend Linda sent a copy of this new cookb

It's a worthy goal – perhaps essential – to reduce the cost of food in our households. But before we save a dime or a dollar, we first need to wrap our heads around some basics. Here are some ideas to consider. I hope they'll provoke hard thinking in a money-saving endeavor. If you're new here, you may want to start at the beginning of this series, see How to Save Money on Groceries: The Introduction .

Some lucky summers, it can be all about the peaches, a veritable "Peach Festival"! Here are four of my very favorite peach recipes. First up, a luscious peach pie, a recipe I've been making for many years, kissed with a little orange that somehow makes the peaches just a little bit more "peachy". I call it "Fresh Peach Pie" because the peaches are aren't even really cooked, they're sweet and slightly firm, so so fresh! Then three simple summer recipes, a chilled Peach & Cantaloupe Soup (or wait, isn't that kind of a peach smoothie? you decide), a savory Peach Appetizer, and the oh-so-luscious Roasted Peaches, one of my favorite simple summer desserts. Oh, do you know the muffin man, the one that lives on Drury Lane? You may recognize this old nursery rhyme but do you know the peaches man, the one at Kirkwood Market? My nearby "peach man" lives at CJ’s Produce where he sells sun-blushed Eckert peaches from now ti