Following are a couple of pictures from last night’s fabulous Finger Lakes Culinary Bounty Harvest Dinner at Geneva on the Lake.

The night started out with Rhubarb and Rye cocktails from Finger Lakes Distilling and Felcia’s Atomic Lounge and ended – after 5 courses cooked by local chefs – with a take home box of chocolates from Life’s So Sweet Chocolates.

Three cheers for the local farmers, chefs and artisans who made last night all that it was.

Between the sun and the snow (yes, the snow was flying when we woke up this morning and the weatherman says it’s going to get down to 34 degrees tonight) we want to thank everyone who visited The Copper Oven this weekend.

Special thanks goes out to our Elm Beach Road neighbors, the Kappa Kappa Gamma crew from Syracuse University and all the families who brought their moms and and grandmothers to The Copper Oven at Cayuga Ridge today to celebrate Mother’s Day with feasts of wine and wood fired pizza (long live Batman!).

And continued good feedback on the local ingredients that we use to make our wood fired pizzas: One after another, people who are new to goat cheese realize how much they love Lively Run’s Herbs de Provence chevre. And with the pepperoni (better known as Piggeroni) firing so well, we hope to eventually hear from The Piggery that our customers are going direct to who we think is the best charcuterie in Central New York.

Finally, Mary Jane’s Test Kitchen continued this afternoon… Local ingredients on this largely apple-based Pizza included Red Jacket Orchard’s Apple Butter, local apples from Kingtown Orchards (thinly sliced and soaked in Finger Lakes Distilling Maplejack Liqueur) finished with a drizzle of Waid’s Honey. Mmmmn good…

In between bursts of customers this afternoon Mary Jane managed a couple of tasty experiments.

Does this sound like wood fired pizza to you?

Blueberry, mascarpone, honey and hazelnuts. (Blueberry’s courtesy of Luce Farm and Mascarpone from Vermont Creamery.)

Or how about this (my new favorite)?

Nutella well mixed with a shot of McKenzie Bourbon from Finger Lakes Distilling and organic banana chunks.

Finger Lakes Distilling McKenzie Bourbon Pizza (In The Oven)

Finger Lakes Distilling McKenzie Bourbon Pizza (On The Plate)

Hopefully these make it into the menu rotation soon.