June Menus

  Better late than never, here are my June menu plans. We have several 'events' going on in June, a dinner with my aftercare co-workers hosted by our boss tonight, my youngest son's commencement so we will go out to eat after, a couple of church festivals and a graduation party for my nephew K. With the new grandbaby due momentarily I also figure I am probably going to have to be really fluid with these ideas and I will of course be making some meals to take to son's house to share with him and DIL after they get home from the hospital. Breakfasts will be things like yogurt and fruit, toast, homemade coffee cakes, homemade bagels or English muffins, cereal, or oatmeal. I like to save cooked breakfasts for the weekend.  Lunches will be leftovers or simple things like hot dogs, grilled cheese, tuna or egg salad sandwiches, simple salads, homemade stovetop mac & cheese.
Here are my dinner menus for the month. I have planned out at least one day with a meatless dinner that is vegetable based, a couple of dinners based on planned overs, and tried to alternate poultry, pork, beef, lamb, and seafood.
My plan is to put in a small garden this year to give us tomatoes, cukes, peppers, eggplant, and lettuce as well as fresh herbs. Obviously the only thing I expect to harvest in June is lettuce so most of our veggie based meals will come from the local year round farmer's market.
These are in no special order. I'm trying out a couple of new ideas which are in italics. Planned over meals are underlined. Meals that use a larger cut of meat are in bold.

We have already had grilled Pineapple rum pork chops with au gratin potatoes and pickles and calzones.

Penne with roasted eggplant and mozzarella cheese, salad

Grilled brown sugar chicken, parsley potatoes, Hawaiian coleslaw

Spaghetti with meatballs, salad

Grilled Garden pizza, salad

Greek pork chops, couscous with pine nuts, sugar snap peas

Bulgogi (Korean bbq steak), steamed basmati rice, Asian veggies

Grilled Rustic Italian Chicken, pasta salad

BBQ Pork chops, corn on the cob, Harvard beets

Beef Ravioli (trying my hand at making this from scratch) with Marinara sauce, salad, garlic toast

Pasta au pistou, sautéed zucchini with garlic

Lemon grilled salmon fillet, white and wild rice, capri blend veggies

Sloppy Joes on homemade buns, homemade chips, pickles & olives

Moroccan Lamb chops, pasta and lentil salad

Pasta with Sun dried tomatoes and tuna, salad

London broil, potato salad, corn

Mediterranean Steak salad, herb rolls

Spinach Quiche, Creole cabbage

Lime Chicken soft tacos, homemade Spanish rice

Baked Ham, cheesy potato casserole, green beans

Ham and cheese bowties, peas

Shrimp Orzo skillet, salad

Garden Omelets, Scottish skillet potatoes, fruit