It's October, people, which means: bring on the apples. Whole apples, juice, cider, sauce -- we're ready to start embracing the season, one apple-y dish at a time. Here are 10 to get you started.

Amanda shows us her lazy go-to dinner.

 It's technically fall but still feels like summer, meaning your brown bag lunches should be in full celebration of this stage in between seasons.

A simple salad-and-pasta meal that's a real midweek perker-upper, ready in just about an hour, of course.

Rainbow hued and super seasonal, this week's Dinner Tonight has a gracious elegance that might just inspire a little pinky's-up behavior.

Once again, we want to give a big thanks to all of our volunteer recipe testers for your thoughtful comments and for helping us continue to strengthen our recipe recommendations. You can read the winning headnote and tester's comments by clicking through to the Community Picks recipes — the comments are at the top. And even if the recipe you tested wasn't chosen as a CP, please feel free to leave your testing notes in the recipe's comments section. Constructive criticism is always encouraged!