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I’m coming home with bags of fall apples and beans from our travels to New Mexico. Can’t wait to try those apple cookies and crockpot baked beans and applesauce (what a novel combo!). Thanks for another wonderful edition of Orts & Reports, Amie—and a hugely welcome distraction from spooky news!

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Happy to be a diversion, Ruth!

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I know I’ve already told you this, but I love your Secret Recipes cookbook with micro stories. So much conveyed in a few short lines. Artful storytelling!

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You made my day (again), Domenica! So glad you are enjoying it. I hope your project is coming along well.

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“Crocktober” is forevermore the way I will think of this month 🧡

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We don’t need no stinkin’ instapots…

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Ha!

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How wonderful, Amie, that Sara who worked with your mom is now on board with you!

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Oooo! I’ve got everything to make those cookies today and thanks for the October surprise, too, Amy.

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Ok, Jessica's Apple Cookies are on my weekend baking to-do list, and the popcorn balls' bit is so appropriate for Halloween: my Jim and I grew up in the same neighborhood in small town Michigan and his mom would always make popcorn balls for trick or treating. It was the annual, dependable can't-wait-to-get-a-popcorn-ball treat that everyone in the neighborhood was excited about. I always ate mine the same night (as well as most of my haul). P.S. I smiled at the What Not to Cook notebook. I have a mental one of those.

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That’s a nice memory! Thank you for sharing (and baking my stuff!)

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❤️

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