June Menu, Instructions, Grocery List, Labels and Podcast
I can hardly believe that another month has slipped by. As you heard, I am working to dwindle my freezer supply so I didn’t cook the May menu. I can’t wait to go back and try some of the recipes once my freezer is defrosted. I hope you enjoyed the May menu though.
If you are new to the site this month, WELCOME. We are glad that you have decided to join us. Here is what you will need to participate in the June Once A Month Cooking (OAMC) BIG DAY! Not sure how to get started? Read here.
The last few months I have tried hard to include some great grill recipes. Those are really nice to have around but nothing beats a casserole or crock pot dish for putting it in and forgetting about it! So I have swung the other direction and included very few grill recipes this month. However, given that Father’s Day is this month, I am dedicated this month to all of the Father’s (and soon to be father’s) out there.
ALL of the recipes come from sites run by men. Folks, this was no easy feat! If you have a husband that likes to cook, you might suggest he start a blog. There is a DEFINITE niche waiting to be filled for dad’s that cook (and not just on the grill).
I started out only searching dad blogs but quickly had to move to just men sites. There just wasn’t enough to choose from in my searches. Especially when looking for freezer friendly meals with ingredients in season. I hope you enjoy what I was able to find.
June Podcast
- Coming later this week (hubs and I are beat).
June Menu
- Included below are the menu items that we will be preparing as part of our OAMC BIG DAY. In the printable menu the menu items are listed as single, double, or quadruple depending on how much we need to make on the BIG DAY. The recipes linked below are ONLY for the single batch, to see the amounts we are making on the OAMC BIG DAY you will need to visit the June Printable Menu.
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Breakfast
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Lunches
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Dinners
- Tater Tot Casserole
- Barbecued Meatloaf**
- rDad’s Saucy Pepperjack Chicken** (this website is down; see printable menu)
- Seasoned Pork Tenderloin**
- Layered Chicken Enchilada Casserole
- Chicken Curry
- Simple Lasagne**
**Indicates meals that require NO COOKING on your OAMC BIG DAY!
Grocery List
- Included in this spreadsheet you will find a listing of all the items you will need to complete your June OAMC BIG DAY. For more instructions on how to use this, go here.
- Printable Grocery List
Instructions
- These are the step-by-step instructions you will need to quickly and efficiently approach your OAMC BIG DAY!
- Printable Instructions
Labels
Designed to be printed on Avery 8163 or equivalent! Readers who didn’t have labels available suggested just printing them on paper and taping them. Cheap and economical; I like it!
- June_Labels_1 – Mocha Chip Muffins, Baked French Toast
- June_Labels_2 – Fresh-fruit Pancakes, Asian Chicken-Salad Pitas
- June_Labels_3 – Taquitos, Sun-dried Tomato & Basil Pinwheels
- June_Labels_4 – Beef-Macaroni Soup, Tater Tot Casserole
- June_Labels_5 – Barbecued Meatloaf, rDad’s Saucy Pepperjack Chicken
- June_Labels_6 – Seasoned Pork Tenderloin, Layered Chicken Enchilada Casserole
- June_Labels_7 – Chicken Curry, Simple Lasagna
- Blank_Labels
Helpful Hints
- Ingredients:
- Cream of Coconut – DO not confuse with coconut milk (example)
- Currants – a listed substitute is blueberries. It doesn’t say dried currants but that would make more sense to me with a substitution of raisins. You make the decision whether they are available and you want to include them or a substitute.
- Tips from Cortney & Tricia’s AFTER their OAMC day – Coming at the end of the month.
- Tips and Stories from other readers – Coming at the end of the month.
What do you think of June’s menu?
And don’t forget to check out the right sidebar weekly to vote on past month’s menus!
June’s menu looks great. Looks like stuff that DH would actually eat, for the most part. Probably because these are men’s recipes. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the include! Good luck with the taquitos!
Glad to have you on the menu this month!
Thanks for the include. Hope you like the muffins! Totally one of my top ten items. Thanks for the nudge to pay attention to the blog a bit more.
I really like this site you have here (specially with sooo much freezer space and the CSA starting to pick up.)
Scott
There really is a niche for dad food blogs. Thanks for including recipes. Looking forward to this one.
Just joined! This is great! I’m returning to work from maternity leave this Wednesday and my husband has gotten used to having delicious homemade meals every night (and I’ve enjoyed cooking them). With going back to work, though, it’s likely to return to picking up Taco Bell on the way home from dropping off our nanny…look forward to trying this instead! :)
Looks yummy! Thank you for putting this together and sharing it with us.
I’m not sure if it’s just my computer or what but the link to the pepperjack chicken isn’t working… just thought I’d let you know! This looks like a good menu….maybe when I’m done nursing and can have dairy again I might try doing this :o)
I noticed that yesterday too. It is actually the guys website. It was working fine two days ago. Wish I had his email to tell him. The recipe can be found in the printable menu if you are interested.
Tricia, I know you’ve been busy, but some of the recipes don’t have the cooking temperatures included for serving day. I was able to find them on the original recipe sites.
Thanks for mentioning that, I will look through them and see what I missed.
Thanks so much for the great ideas and organization!!
I am working on modifying this plan (eventually I would like to go back and do the others) to take into account my son’s food allergies. He is allergic to milk, eggs, soy, peanuts, and shellfish. Now I am nursing my second son and avoiding dairy (again)! There are a few things I have to just take out (lasagne and baked french toast), but the others I am trying to either adapt the recipe and instructions, or replace with a similar recipe (I may replace the muffins with another muffin recipe, because of the yogurt, and I used a meatloaf recipe that I know works). I am not quite done, but hope to finish in the next day or 2. If anyone wants a copy of these (someone else mentioned no dairy up above, please let me know) my e-mail is taraspitzer at gmail dot com. Maybe in the future we could work together on some of these, and still use it as a starting point?
We’ll talk – I will email you!
Hi Tara! I just emailed you about dairy free recipes :o) amandatumpak@gmail.com
Now how about emailing them to me! :)
I’m proud to have had my Barbecued Meatloaf included in the menu. I certainly hope that it lives up to its billing.
All the best,
John
I’ve never tried barbecuing a meatloaf…hopefully, it tastes a bit barbecued/smokey??? Tried my best to convince my teenaged son and husband that since these were all “guy” recipes that they should be the ones that prepped the month…that was a no go..but I’m sure I’ll get them to help…especially, since we just thawed/cooked/barbecued the baby back ribs from last month…so yummy! and both boys thought they were a winner…by the end of the summer with all these burgers, ribs and now a meatloaf they will have honed their barbecuing skills…plus there was a recipe for smoking a pork butt on the grill in a recent magazine we received..and both of them had their heads together..I see good eating in my future!
Yes, it definitely tastes barbecued. It’s not overpowering, but it’s there.
John
Thanks for keeping up with the comments :) It is so great to have the recipe authors contributing! Thanks again!.
Wow – I was told about this site a few weeks ago and, being as compulsive as I am and digging in deep to learn, I am finding I LOVE this site! Thank you for putting all of this together.
I also wanted to give kudos and an electronic high five to OAM for the hard work this takes to organize. My husband is diabetic so we try to stay away from most carbs (pastas, potatoes, and stuff with bad ingrediants like hydrogenated-this-and-that). To make it work for the family, and to catch up with wanting to start now with what I already have on hand, I re-did the OAM June with My Family June menu and related – what an undertaking! I had no idea what I was getting myself into …
So, I am ready to shop with the ads released today and will hopefully have my first cooking day next weekend when my teenage daughters (my voluntold cooking buddies!) return from summer camp. Wish me luck …
And keep up the fantastic work! :)
Luck. Glad you like what you see. And yes, it is a lot of hard work to put together. Hope you were able to make the necessary adaptions.
Found my dried tomatoes and chopped red peppers already..stopped at a farmers market for corn to add to (honey/mustard pork chops) and found a ginormous box of peppers and tomatoes for $3..they were all bruised/slight damaged. No problem, I pulled out the dehydrator and sliced the tomatoes up..they’re going as I type..and chopped up the red peppers that were included..just enough for my asian chicken pita salad and the curry for this month..popped into ziplocs and into the freezer..figured if I’m going to freeze it anyhow it doesn’t matter if I prefreeze…but that was a cost savings as my garden tomatoes aren’t ready yet and peppers have been running a buck a piece!
I made the taquitos, but the amount of salt isn’t right. It’s “to taste” on the original recipe. Four tablespoons would be way too much. Great recipe!
Thanks for the heads up I will make the change.
I made up the BBQ meatloaves but was unclear on 2 things:
(1) For the condensed french onion soup, is that in it’s liquid form or just the powder?
(2) Bake uncovered?
Thanks!
Not sure about the soup. Feel free to write the original author at their site, he is very kind. I’d love to know the answer too. And it looks like it is best to make it without the foil on.
Here’s what John said about the BBQ Meatloaf:
“The soup is the canned condensed kind (I use Campbell’s)
Yes, you want to cook it uncovered. Also, make sure the fat can drain.
Enjoy,
John”
I came across your website today and am thoroughly enjoying it!! I can’t wait to see your future posts (as well as try some of those yummy looking recipes)!!
Looks like you put a lot of thought and hard work into this site, I’m loving it :)
I was going through the grocery list and recipes and I noticed that it looks like you have 1 cup of dried basil on the grocery list, but for the pinwheels on his website he uses fresh. You may want to look into that.
I often put the equivalent in dry ingredients instead of fresh since we are shopping the entire month. If you have fresh basil available (which is likely this time of year) I encourage you to use it. But the dried basil is listed correctly in this case as a substitute.
Sis and I did ALL of the May OAMC menu – this month we’ve decided to stick to the Mocha Chip Muffins, Taquitos, Tator Tot Casserole, and Chicken Enchilada Casserole. We still have quite a few meals left from May… so this will get us through July as well. Can’t wait for the next menu to come out as we will be doing ALL of that one as well :)
Yay! So glad you didn’t give up on it. Sometimes abbreviated menus are good.
First of all, Melissa and I are very grateful for all of the work you guys do on this website! It is such a wonderful resource. Melissa and I did the June menu today! This time though I cooked up the breakfast items the day before our big OAMC and its a good thing we did! Several of the menu items were very time consuming but looked delicious!
Here a few things we noticed:
TAQUITOS: its supposed to be 2 tablespoons of spices and not 4. We ended up having to throw the meat out because of the salt.
LASAGNA: We didn’t have enough sauce. It should be 12 cups of sauce instead of 8. We’re just going to buy extra sauce when we actually bake them.
SOUP:
The soup should have macaroni pasta and not regular spaghetti like the grocery list says, although we just broke up the spaghetti and used it and it worked fine!
I think that’s it for now! Thanks so much girls:)
Yikes! Thanks for the heads up. I am making changes RIGHT NOW!
Lasagna: We only doubled this recipe so it should have only been 8 cups. I will make note that it seemed like there should be more.
thanks Tricia!
Was just wondering where everyone has found the Pepperjack Cheese Soup. Is there a brand or particular store where you can find this? I am having trouble! Thanks!
actually we couldn’t find any either so ended up mixing cheddar cheese soup and nacho cheese soup? Anyone else find any?
Yay! My partner and I cooked today! Things went pretty smoothly. We got everything done in 8 hours (much better than last month’s 12!) We prechopped the night before, and also I portioned the uncooked chicken into bags when I bought it, so we just added sauce to the bags! We assembled Chicken Fajitas instead of making the Chicken Curry-so it was a lot faster! You for sure want 1/2 again as much spaghetti sauce for the lasagna. And you might as well make a double batch of muffins-they were nice munching on during the day (thankfully we had planned on this)! The other thing I would recommend is a candy bar before you start kitchen cleanup. I normally don’t eat them, but they sure taste good after working all day! Thanks for all the work you gals do making this possible for the rest of us!
So glad that you enjoyed making the June menu. Thanks for sharing.
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Just made the taquitos last night; although my hubby said they tasted fantastic, every single one of my corn tortillas broke when rolling filling in them. So the pan looked like one big mess of meat and tortilla pieces. I followed directions exactly and even read the original blot post this recipe came from and how come her tortillas didn’t crack? Anyone else have this problem? Thanks! Love this blog!
I haven’t heard of this problem before and this is an older menu, so not sure how much response we will see. I have heard that if tortillas aren’t fresh when originally making or not slightly heated this can be a problem but that is all I can think of.
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