Carrie Brown - Eat Smarter! Ice Creams: 30 fat-burning, health-boosting, delicious frozen treats

Eat Smarter!

Ice Creams

30 fat-burning, health-boosting, delicious frozen treats

CARRIE BROWN

with foreword by Jonathan Bailor

Author, The Calorie Myth

Text and Photography Copyright 2013 Carrie Brown

All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author.

Recipes are provided for private and personal use only.

The text and recipes should not be considered a substitute for professional medical advice. The author shall not be held liable for any adverse effects arising from the use of the information and recipes contained herein. The reader should consult a qualified medical professional before starting any new health or diet program.

ISBN-10: 149484205X

ISBN-13: 978-1494842055

DEDICATION

Geoff Nyheim

Empowerer of people, celebrator of life, lover of ice cream, and all-round outstanding human being.

Every single day I wake up and thank my lucky stars for the incredible impact you have had on my life. You have had a greater positive influence on me than anyone I have ever known. I have created a life that I love because of your support, your coaching, your encouragement, and your enthusiasm.

You inspire me to do my best work. Your integrity, and the way you are in the world is a constant, shining example to me.

You told me I could do anything I wanted to doso I did.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Foreword

How It All Began 1

An Ice Cream Frame Of Mind

Ingredients

Equipment

Mixing, Churning, and Freezing 23

Recipes: Chocolates, Coffees, and Vanillas

Recipes: Fruits

Recipes: Nuts

Recipes: Spices, Essences, and Extracts

Recipes: Mi x-ins 95

Where To Get More Cool Stuff

Carrie Brown

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Jonathan Bailor without you I would never have known what a truly healthy lifestyle looked like. What you taught me inspired me to change the course of my future completely. Your influence in my life is huge. You are one of my biggest supporters, and a brilliant partner in podcast crime. You are my hero.

The Ice Cream Taste Test Crew Matt Ballard, Sahara Pirie, Laurie Resch, Bob Stutz, and Jen Meehan, whose thoughtful, constructive criticism helped shape many of the final versions. You ate a lot of ice cream during this endeavor, and my recipes are better because of your input. Thursday afternoons will never be the same.

Taste Testers Geoff Nyheim, The Bailors - Jonathan, Angela, Mary Rose, and Robert - and various other awesome folks who were able to sample a few ice creams here and there, and whose feedback was also very valuable.

Marjorie Ferris aka Bea for delivering a critical bottle of glycerin at just the right moment, and for always being willing to taste just one more flavor.

Bala Silvakumar you make me look better than any photographer ever has!

Every last one of my lovely blog readers and podcasts listeners you make this all worthwhile. This book is better because of you, and I am deeply honored and humbled that you choose to be a part of my world.

Mic MVP, youre the very, very best. Thats all.

Marc Levine you know why.

FOREWORD

If someone offers you something healthy to eat, what emotion comes to mind? Im guessing its far from delicious. And rightfully so given how healthy has been defined for us over the past fifty years. But isnt that sad? How could we live in a world where delicious food leads to disease-causing fat? Wouldnt a more intelligently designed and evolutionarily apt system be one where the best tasting foods are also the best for us?

Theres good news, bad news, and great news. The good news is that yes, common sense, intelligent design, and evolutionary biology all tell us that successful species are those that thrive in their environment. Hear that? Were meant to thrive, not to be deprived. The bad news is that healthy was redefined in a very unhealthy way a few decades ago, and that has led to the highest levels of sickness and suffering the world has ever seen. The great news is that while the worlds best scientists spent the past few decades making healthy healthy again, a world-class pastry chef has made fat-burning and health-boosting food delicious again.

Forget about healthy and moderation. Focus on smart and simple. For example, if you buy a stunning designer dress or suit at retail, moderation may be required to avoid breaking the bank. However, if you practice smart shopping, you can have your new outfit, then grab some shoes and a belt, and still stay out of trouble. When you shop smarter, you can enjoy a lot of gorgeous clothes, and avoid breaking the bank. When you eat smarter, you can enjoy a lot of delicious food, and avoid breaking your body.

Make no mistake, decades of rigorous scientific research show exactly how you can enjoy each and every flavor, texture, sensation, and exhilaration you yearn forsmarter. And theres no better example than Eat Smarter! Ice Creams.

Moderation is a myth. If we thoughtlessly grab some chemically engineered product that happens to be edible out of the freezer of a gas station, moderation matters. But if you enjoy ice cream that provides more nutrition than most peoples healthy low-fat lunches, you can throw moderation out the window along with your scale. You dont need either. Your body is wondrous. Your brain is amazing. Your soul needs nourishing. When you leverage your brain to give your body what it is designed to run on, it will take care of everything else for you, just like it did for every other generation of people who ever lived.

What Carrie Brown has created is amazing. She has taken whole, succulent, healing, and natural foods, mixed them with the most rigorous modern metabolic science available, and managed to end up with fantastic ice cream. Smarter ice cream. A dessert that need not even be called a dessert. A sweet, creamy, delight that is better for your taste buds and your body, than basically any healthy meal option found in the center aisles of your local grocery store.

When nutritious food is delicious, slim is simple. You can eat dessert first and look and feel better than you ever imagined. In Eat Smarter! Ice Creams Carrie Brown proves it. Eat moresmarter. Let Carrie Brown be your guide. I did. And Im only happier and healthier because of it.

Jonathan B ailor

Author, The Calorie Myth (HarperCollins, 12.31.13)

Researcher, TheBailorGroup.com

How it all began

Ice cream, ice cream, we all scream for ice cream!

Ice cream is one of the worlds favorite sweet treats. Not m ine though. Well, not in the beginning, anyway.

Growing up, my family didnt eat ice cream much. It made a rare, and brief appearance on the Sunday dessert menu every once in a great while, usually in the form of an Arctic Roll. For the uninitiated, an Arctic Roll is a wholly British thing consisting of vanilla ice cream wrapped in a thin layer of sponge cake to form a roll. Its the shape of a log, and theres a layer of raspberry sauce between the ice cream and the sponge. My mother would saw one into 4 and wed each have a slice. I liked Arctic Roll days, although they didnt roll around very often. Ha ha! Roll. Oh never mind.

Other than Arctic Rolls, ice cream never really blew my skirt up as a kid. Looking back I think this was because the ice cream that was available back in the day was so ghastly: thin, almost icy, flavorless. I was well into adulthood when the premium ice creams hit the market, and ice cream was elevated to a whole new status. I would chow down on the odd Ben and Jerrys Cherry Garcia Ice Cream Bar, or sneak a small oblong tub of Mvenpick Caf Ice Cream, and boy oh boy, did that stuff make me want to get a room. But still, ice cream was never my go-to dessert or treat.