Shrimp and Sausage Linguine

A mix of two different recipes. One featured at the Publix, yes, my favorite place on earth.  The other recipe from Giada .  Scott wanted something carb heavy, leaning towards pasta.  I'm not the biggest pasta fan on earth. Too much bad-spaghetti PTSD.  I indulged. He's studying for boards, poor thing.

Ingredients 
- 1/2 Lb Shrimp, peeled/deveined
- 1 Hot Italian Sausage Link, casing removed
- 2/3 box linguine
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 shallot, finely sliced
- 2 Tbsp red pepper flakes
- Juice of 3 Lemons
- Lemon zest of 1 lemon
- 1/2 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
- 1 Tbsp Tomato Paste (heaping)
- 2 cups left-over noodle water
- 1-2 cups Arugula**


Cook linguine. Al dente and done when the noodle sticks to the cabinet after throwing. About 7 minutes. While linguine is cooking, brown sausage over medium heat in a large skillet. Remove sausage, set aside.  Turn to med-low heat, add olive oil, saute garlic and shallots until fragrant and softened (do not let brown or crisp). Add tomato paste, lemon juice, heavy whipping cream, crushed red pepper flakes, 1/2 cup of left over noodle water, salt and pepper.  Let reduce until volume is about half. Add back sausage. Add shrimp, let cook 3-4 minutes.  Slowly add linguine to coat with sauce.  Remove from heat.  Add arugula. Garnish with salt, pepper and red pepper flakes.

Calorie Count: 670 per serving, whoa! going to have to find a way to cut some calories from this one....

Scott's Thoughts: 
1. Ice water rinsing shrimp really makes a difference (mmmmk... Scott) 
2. It's like a vodka sauce. I don't really know what's in a vodka sauce or really what's in this, they just seem the same. 
3. Watching Aladdin while eating makes it taste better


** I hate buying random ingredients I don't use often.  I do like buying bagged salads. I admit, they're easier and often come with great combinations of different lettuces that would be a lot more expensive to buy independently.  Publix was having a sale on their delux brand bagged salad, one of which included arugula. I just picked out the arugula for my pasta.  Ate the rest of the bagged salad as instructed.