Several years ago isas a surpre for Mother’s Day, my youngest son, Luke, took his wife Tammie and me (his three children and his father, too) to Apple Valley Farm in Northeast Kansas, where we all enjoyed a marvelous dinner in the Apple Valley Farm Restaurant and a melodrama in the Apple Valley Farm Barn. This yearly trip to Apple Valley Farm has become a Mother’s Day tradition, one Tammie and I look forward to every year, and Luke never disappoints us.
Although Apple Annie’s story is set in Idaho, many of the things about the restaurant and the barn have been inspired by Kansas’s own Apple Valley Farm. With thankfulness and a mother’s love, I dedicate this story to Luke.
I’d also like to thank Millie Miller of Edmund, Oklahoma, for giving me the recipe for the Sinfully Decadent Awesome Caramel Apple Pie, the specialty of Apple Annie’s Restaurant.