Joycie's Luncheon August 7th 2012

Hi this is me the Joycie and
we all had a fun time.

Marilyn you were missed.

I want to thank Linda and
Sheila and Nancy for helping
me with at the luncheon.
Linda made the centerpiece,
and the table runner and decorated
the table.  She is one talented young
lady.  Thanks Sheila for taking pictures,
and everything else you did.  Thanks
also to Nancy for helping at the luncheon.

Tons of Fun

We love Mexican Food

Okay I cheated, I bought the chicken
tamales at Costco.
The beans are a mixture of refried beans,
black beans, and paquinto beans.
Topped with shredded mild cheddar cheese.

Cilantro Lemon Rice

Brown the rice in Lucero Lemon Olive Oil along with

the onions.  Add some chicken broth or chicken base

to the rice and then add water and also chopped

cilantro leaves.  Cover and cook.

Fantastic Helpers

Thanks so much for all your help, you
young ladies are so appreciated!

Table centerpiece and runner and peppers

Linda made the table decorations for
me.  She does a beautiful work.  She
even made the table runner.  What a
friend she is.  Thanks so much Linda!!!
You are the best!!!

I love the centerpiece she made.
We didn't turn the plates over until time
to fill them. 

Salad

Mexican Salad

Chopped Romaine lettuce

Black beans

Corn

Onion rings

Orange and lime slices

Cilantro Salad Dressing Trade Joes

Some extras….

Chips and Salsa, and Sour Cream for dips

tnd toppings

 Linda helping me!  Thanks Linda!

Dessert First They Say!

Joycie’s Orange Sensation

2 cups orange sorbet softened

1 package (1oz) Jell-O vanilla

flavor fat free sugar free instant pudding

1 cup cold milk

1 tub (8oz) Cool Whip

Topping of your choice

Spoon sorbet into foil-lined 9x5 inch

loaf pan.  Freeze 10 minutes.

Beat pudding mix and milk in medium

Bowl with whisk 2 minutes.

Stir in Cool-Whip, spread over sorbet.

Freeze and then add another layer of

sorbet.

Freeze 3 hours or until firm.  Unmold onto

plate, remove foil.  Let dessert stand 10

minutes to soften slightly before

slicing to serve.  Top with your choice of

toppings.

You can use any flavor of sorbet and

top with anything, like raspberry sorbet

with raspberry toppings, etc.

The middle of this dessert was too hard to cut, I had to

call in the army to cut it for me.  You could leave it

set out until it was soft and by doing that the sorbet

would have been melted.  So I don’t recommend

this recipe.  It would have been better to put a layer

of orange sorbet, a layer of vanilla ice cream, and then

a layer of orange sorbet.  You can use sherbet instead

of sorbet.

 The middle of this was so hard to cut


Sheila and Linda to the rescue!


See how the Sorbet melted fast!