The Common Good Café
The Common Good Café features daily gourmet menu service that can be taken out or consumed on site at the café. Lingering over the food at your table by the sea, in our spacious and comfortable setting overlooking the surf and the rocky coast of Maine is encouraged. Hot soups of the day are available for eat-in or take out, as is self-serve coffee and other beverage service all day. Here is a sample of some of our daily specials in July:
A sampling of our 2010 Summer Specials |
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crab sliders, pasta salad, sauteed beet greens garden fresh citrus salad, tabouleh. (dressings of the day: homey lime, balsamic, curry yougurt and ceasar) |
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bite-size lobster roll on homemade buns, coleslaw, wild greens salad with sprouts, white radish, carrots. |
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pizza bar: |
summer sandwich: grilled zucchini, homemade coriander mayo, tomatoes, greens and sprouts |
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quiche: mushroom and zucchini |
soup: rice and mushroom with shallots, white onions, scallions |
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blueberry strawberry crisp, scones, breakfast sandwiches |
The Market Store (opening mid-summer 2010) will primarily feature the raw ingredients from which our food lines are prepared, along with recipes and on the spot cooking tips. Cooking demonstrations will be held. Other items from local high quality food producers will also be offered for sale as they are available. The market philosophy is not to try and offer everything for sale all of the time, but to stock basic grain, bean, herb and spice staples with minimal wasteful packaging and to offer other items that are available in season, to encourage the consumer to create from what is locally and seasonally available. This will include seafood from the gulf of Maine, as well as produce and other items.
SHARE IN THE HARVEST Fill a Bucket for $5 Bucks Our deli case is beginning to overflow with goodies from the local gardens. Please come and fill a bucket for $5 (plus a $1 deposit on the bucket). (lobster not included!)
Join us for SUPPAH We are extending our offerings for SUPPAH in the month of August. This means adding some signature items like Lobster Rolls, Mac n' Cheese, Haddock Sandwich, baked beans, meat loaf and garden fresh veggies. Join us for a delightful evening by the sea!
The Restor’ant Food line at the Common Good Café
How many of us have ever thought about the origin of the word restaurant and of how these establishments originated? Our own chef Bill did, and found out. It seems that in the late 1700’s in France there were many unemployed Chefs, who had lost their jobs as the aristocracy went into decline (eventually many of the aristocracy not only went into decline, but literally lost their heads when the French revolution finally erupted.) These Chefs were like Japanese Samurai without masters: up to that point only the aristocrats employed chefs, who competed with each other to create better and better culinary creations for their employers/ benefactors. This food was unavailable and unknown to the rest of the population. One of these now unemployed chefs opened a small shop in Paris to sell soup to the general population. Others followed in his wake and soon soup shops dotted the streets of the city. Because diet at that time was held to be a key ingredient in health funny how things come around, isn’t it?) these soups were sold as elixirs that would improve one’s health and well being, healthful liquids that would restore the body, and thus these shops sold what were called Restor’ants. Later, still more unemployed chefs expanded the food lines and the nature of the establishments to re-create for the public what they had previously done for their private employers and the great tradition of French Restaurant Cuisine was established. (The first “restaurant” in the US was in fact a soup shop started by a French immigrant to Boston..)
The Restor’ant line of food available at the common good café follows in this tradition. Basic natural ingredients, whole grains, beans and vegetables available as the season permits, are combined with herbs and spices to create a variety of soups, salads, wraps, sushi rolls, and sauces that are all delicious, nutritious, low fat and low carbohydrate, sources of vitamins and minerals in their natural form that the body can utilize most
effectively and that use no animal products of any kind. In addition to the prepared items for sale to take out or consume at the café, the raw ingredients for this line of food are for sale, recipes are available, point of sale consultation on how to cook them is provided, and demonstrations and classes are presented as well. Enjoy!! A votre sante’!* Yumm!**
Some sample food items from the Resor’ant line:
Red rice salad; potato salad with mushrooms and kale or fiddleheads; bow-tie pasta with groats (kasha) and pumpkin seeds; puree of carrot soup with curry; lentil vegetable soup; non-dairy cream of mushroom soup, New England Style split pea soup.
* To your health
** Yumm!