Cayenne Pepper

Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: Dinner at Home – Whole Wheat Fusili and Seafood & Vegetable Cream Sauce

Today I was thinking that I have a lot of pasta I haven’t used yet and could try my hand at making my own cream sauce to boot. After checking the fridge for what I would need I decided to make a quick stop at the supermarket and pick up some needed items for my Cream Sauce. Once back from the supermarket I set up the ingredients

Ingredients for my Vegetable Seafood Cream Sauce:

1 pint of Heavy cream

1 half cup Coconut water with pulp

3 tbsp Oregano, 2 tbsp Cayenne Pepper, 1 tsp Black Pepper, 1 tsp Habanero Pepper, Sea Salt

2 finely chopped Garlic Cloves

1/2 Red Onion finely chopped (or whatever onion you have)

1 can Green Peas n Carrots, 1 can Green Peas

3 tbsp All purpose flour

1 1/2 cups shelled deveined uncooked Shrimp

1/2 cup Calamari

3 hard boiled eggs

I poured the heavy cream and coconut water w pulp into a sauce pan or pot with medium low heat. Next in went the spices and canned peas and carrots before I stirred in the chopped garlic and red onion. In a small bowl I mixed the 3 tbsp of flour and just enough water to dissolve the flour and have no lumps. The dissolved flour was then added to the sauce and let simmer.

In a separate skillet I added some canola oil and heated the pan to medium heat. Once the oil was fast in the pan, I added the Shrimp and Calamari pieces one at a time to the pan and allowed them to cook on both sides before removing and placing on a plate with paper towel to drain excess oil. I did two styles where I used Panko breadcrumbs and an egg yolk bath to coat some of the Calamari and Shrimp and some I fried without any breadcrumbs just in oil. Both ways I cooked the shrimp ended up in the cream sauce and were equally delicious.

Next I took the yolks from the 3 Hard Boiled Eggs and sliced them in halves before adding them to the sauce.

After a gentle stir of the Shrimp and Calamari and Egg Yolks into the sauce, I added Sea Salt to taste as I could tell the coconut water had made the sauce a tad sweeter than I intended. Once the taste was just right I let it simmer until sufficiently thickened. The heat was turned down to low. Next turned my attention to putting a pot of water on to boil before adding the Fusili pasta to it.

I let the Fusili boil for about 8 minutes till al dente then drained them and set them aside while I tended to the cream sauce which was almost done. Next I grabbed a mixing bowl and whipped together a quick Garden Salad with Mushrooms, Grape Tomatoes, Spinach and Shredded Carrots. Below is the completion of my efforts.

Dinner is finally served…

Just when I thought I’d take my first bite I realized I wanted to add some Parmesan Cheese and so…

Now for the first bite of Shrimp

I have to say for my first time throwing together a Cream Sauce this turned out to be quite good. The Cayenne Pepper and Habanero Pepper heightened the flavor and gave the sauce a little kick. Next time I’ll have to experiment making this using Shrimp stock in the sauce. Till next time this has been Dinner at Home another report by THEJNSREPORT.

Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: Day 6 of Detox Nutrition Plan

Of course what would any start of the day be without two of capsules of Psyllium Husk?

I decided to skip breakfast and got caught up doing various things before I realized that it was late afternoon and I hadn’t eaten anything. Remembering my sandwich purchase from the days prior I turned to Chicken Salad on Hero Bread.

Some Chicken Salads are done OK, but this here Chicken Salad was done right!!!! Big chunks of Chicken breast will my sandwich bread. I only added black pepper to it as I wanted to taste only the bread and the Chicken Salad together. In order to have some textural contrast I broke out a bowl of Corn Tortilla chips.

I didn’t feel up to snacking on any cashews or peanuts today so I pretty much was held over with the above until the evening when I realized I had absolutely nothing prepared for dinner. I thought for a moment and almost gave into weakness thinking I’d order Pizza or perhaps Chinese even. I sat thinking as time continued to tick away.

I decided to head to the kitchen. I went to the fridge and saw that I had the ingredients to make my own Pizza versus ordering out for it. I proceeded to gather the ingredients I wanted to incorporate into my homemade version of Pizza. The following is what took place.

First I grabbed a loaf of Ciabatta bread, Pepperoni, Crumbled Blue Cheese, New York Extra Sharp Cheddar (What else?!), a Green Pepper, Honey Turkey, and Cayenne Pepper. I preheated the oven to 350 degrees before turning my attention to the two halves of Ciabatta. I got paper towel and parchment paper. I sliced the Ciabatta in half and placed it on paper towel before I spread spaghetti sauce that was all veggies with chunks of tomato in it over the two pieces of Ciabatta. Next I sprinkled several good shakes of Cayenne pepper on top of the sauce.

I next took a grater and grated the extra sharp cheddar on top before grabbing some sliced Honey Turkey and tearing pieces of it and spreading it on top of the cheese.

I next went for the Pepperoni and spread them evenly on both Ciabattas before I realized an error in application.

I grabbed a tool and went to work cutting a couple chunks out of the Green Pepper before cutting the chunks into smaller pieces, then removing the Pepperoni and topping the Honey Turkey with Green Peppers and Blue Cheese.

More cheese had to be added to make for a cohesive layer beneath the top of this here work of art.

With the final layer of cheese atop the green peppers, blue cheese and honey turkey pieces, the pepperoni hood was next.

From the paper towel to the parchment paper was the next order of business before these bad boys were gonna be given their sentence. I sprinkled a little cayenne pepper on the pepperoni’s earlier and lightly again before they went into the oven for their sentence to be carried out.

In the oven they went and these last images are of them going through the process.

26 minutes later…

I talked to the two of them when they came out of the oven. I told them “Ya know sometimes you gotta go through the fire, through the heat if you will, in order to come out right.!!!” I went on to say to em “I think you two done come out mighty fine, mighty fine. No doubt about it…Mmmm mmmm son!!!!”

I decided still one final touch was needed to complete my masterpiece. And that final touch was some oregano. I grabbed a bottle and sprinkled some on the remaining pizza and voila!

I realized after understanding the glory of the meal I’d just made and tasting it, two things would be done the next time I made this. The first thing would be to exclude the blue cheese as it was too sharp a taste conflicting with the extra sharp cheddar. The second was that I would add mushrooms, olives, and of course more pepperoni. 😛

I took two more Psyllium Husk capsules after the last bites of this pizza had long been in my belly. In the background I could hear from the audience of food items throughout the kitchen that witnessed the entire scene chanting “Fiber, Fiber, Fiber, Fiber, Fiber!! LMAO!!

Till next time this has been Day 6 of my Detox Nutrition Plan.