No guar gum here...

I've been doing Joshi's Holistic Detox. Its a 21 day detox, I'm on day 13, and have lost 6 pounds so far. I have to admit, losing weight was my primary motive. Its been good, the first few days were kind of rough, but better now. I'm pretty excited to be done soon, though.

In any case, I was cooking tonight, and wanted to make something I hadn't made before. There's a blizzard raging outside, so obviously, I felt like making ice-cream. Coffee ice-cream, to be precise. Both coffee and ice-cream are strictly against the detox rules, so of course, that's what I made...



I loosely followed a recipe from Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments, but added a liberal amount of Kahlua. I really like David Lebovitz - he writes an entertaining blog, and this book is awesome. Over the summer, I'd make a batch of ice-cream every day, practically. (Umm, is it any wonder I need to do things like 21 day detoxes to lose weight?)

Anyway, I couldn't really eat the coffee ice-cream, but I did lick the spoon clean - bad Reethi! But the ice-cream will be waiting for me when I'm done...

(The ice-cream's a bit melty in the picture - since its just out of the machine. And the flecks are coffee-grounds, since my strainer wasn't quite fine enough...)

If you want to make your own ice-cream, David has a free recipe here for Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream. My ice-cream maker is the Cuisinart ICE-20 Automatic Frozen Yogurt - Ice Cream & Sorbet Maker, which I bought over the summer from Craigslist for $25. Its a bit noisy, but since I'm not really a heavy user of ice-cream makers, it works for me.