Ventuno

Last week was Restaurant Week, a Nantucket Annual Tradition, and it is one of the greatest traditions this island has! Nantucket has the best collection of restaurants I have ever known…and Restaurant Week means 4 course meals for cheaper prices. So, how could we not participate?!

My mom and I decided to have a Mommy-Daughter night at one of our favorite restaurants: Ventuno!

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We sat in Holly’s House, a little room with a bar, where our friend, Holly, bartends. Isn’t she just the cutest?

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And then we enjoyed a fabulous dinner of….

A St. Germain and Soda for my mom

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Fried olives stuffed with sausage and Chickpea fries with tomato condiment & yogurt to start

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Griddled focaccia with mozzarella, oven-cured tomatoes, green olive, picked red onion & caper and Strozzapreti pasta with sausage, broccoli rabe, and parmesan cheese

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Grilled Nantucket scallops & shrimp, cauliflower, pinenuts, caperberry & lemon and Grilled prime sirloin, heirloom polenta, spinach, & cherry pepper agrodolce

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Bittersweet chocolate filled doughnuts, espresso gelato & chocolate sauce and Lemon tart & blackberry gelato for dessert

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We were so stuffed by the end, but it was far beyond worth it. If you find yourself on Nantucket, this is the place to go for dinner! A-ma-zing.

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The company was pretty good too…I love you, Mommy!

Wedding Wednesday

I have been collecting every issue of Martha Stewart’s Wedding magazine since I was about 8 years old. When I was cleaning out my room last year before moving to college, I found (bad) drawings of wedding dresses I designed years ago. I have memories of dressing up as a bride and making my dad be the groom so I could have a pretend wedding. I was also a bride for Halloween one year. If you didn’t know already, I am obsessed with all things weddings. And I almost think “obsessed” is an understatement. (I mean there isn’t one wedding video I have watched that didn’t bring a tear to my eye…even videos of strangers) So, I’ve decided to create a blog series called “Wedding Wednesday” that will include anything and everything that has to do with weddings, such as cute proposals, inspiration for your wedding day, honeymoon spots etc.

For my first installment of Wedding Wednesday, I created a color inspiration board. Usually when I’m looking on Pinterest, I am looking in the wedding section. So, an idea popped into my head to create a mini collage of random pictures I find on Pinterest or elsewhere on the Internet that would go together to create a pretty wedding. Then, I’ll pull colors that I see in the pictures to create a possible color scheme for a wedding. Here is the first one:

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(Photo Credit: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Happy Wedding Wednesday! I am so excited for this blog series and I hope you are too! xoxo

A Bachelorette Bracket

I am completely obsessed with The Bachelor/Bachelorette. I know the show is ridiculous, but it’s too addicting. (So make fun of me all you want…”I don’t care! I love it!”) For years, I have gotten together with family and friends on Monday nights to have mini Bachelorette watching parties. And we always talk about who we think will make it to the end and who we think will be voted off each night. I thought it would be so fun to turn that discussion into a bit of a competition…and so I created a Bachelorette Bracket!!

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Here’s how it works. First, get a group of people together or at least one other person who would like to participate with you. Then, print off brackets for each person participating. Each person must fill out each space with the names of the men you think will make it to the next show. You have to fill the bracket completely out…all the way to “winner”…before tonight’s show starts! Then, watch the show each week to see if how many you guessed correctly. And once the show is over…tally up your points:

TOP 13:          1 point per guy you get correct

TOP 11:          2 points per guy you get correct

TOP 9:            3 points per guy you get correct

TOP 6:            4 points per guy you get correct

HOMETOWN: 5 points per guy you get correct

TOP 3:            6 points per guy you get correct

FINALE:          8 points per guy you get correct

WINNER:        10 points if you chose the correct guy!

Whoever has the most points between you and the rest of your group at the end of the show wins! And to make things even more exciting you can even have a prize involved for the winner!

I’m filling out my bracket right now. And I cannot wait for tonight’s show!