Love pie? Take a look at "Texas Living" in our November issue where we visit Flying Saucer Pie Company in Houston. During the holiday season, Houstonians line up for a block and take home a pie or two or more.

1. Love Those Love Creek Apples
Stop in at Love Creek Orchards Cider Mill & Country Store on State 16 in Medina, and loosen your belt for a slice of really big apple pie. It takes a 14-inch slab of dough to drape over the 4-pound mound of the fruit grown here in this Hill Country village. Order it with apple ice cream. Lunch is served too. If you can't get there in person, mail-order a pie to your house. Visit www.lovecreek orchards.com, or call 1-800-449-0882.

2. Happy Hour by the Slice
Get ready for "pie happy hour," a tasty way to wind down the day at Blue Bonnet Cafe in Marble Falls. From 3 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, owners John and Belinda Kemper welcome pie lovers, who choose chocolate meringue (the top seller), coconut cream, or others among a dozen flavors available each day. Chief baker Maura de Dominguez and her staff turn out as many as 100 cream pies and 40 fruit and pecan pies daily. The cafe is at 211 U.S. 281. For more on the restaurant, visit www.bluebonnetcafe.net, or call [830] 693-2344.

3. Delicious Dozen at Koffee Kup Family Restaurant
Lynn Allen, owner of this Hico landmark, serves a dozen flavors in this exemplary small-town cafe that also features fabulous chicken-fried steak, great coffee, and friendly waitresses. Coconut Cream and Black Forest (made with two layers of chocolate) are top sellers, along with apple, pecan, banana-blueberry, and several cream pies. Lynn also offers sugar-free pies in coconut and chocolate. See their menu at www.koffeekupfamilyrestaurant.com, or call [254] 796-4839.

4. Must Be Pie Heaven
In this vintage soda fountain and ice-cream parlor in downtown Brenham, Charlie and Traci Pyle's staff whips up 10 pie varieties daily as well as some seasonal favorites. Coconut meringue is a top seller, followed by the chocolate, Dutch apple, pecan, and a Bourbon-Chocolate Chip-Pecan that's richer than Dallas. Must Be Heaven is at 107 West Alamo in Brenham, with other locations in Bryan and College Station. See their menu at www.mustbeheaven.com, or call [979] 830-8536.

5. Pie in the Sky
Marlene Stubler, owner of Pie in the Sky Pie Co., serves her "hot and sloppy" Mississippi Mud Pie in a bowl with ice cream on top. Breakfast and lunch diners enjoy pie as dessert and buy them whole to go. Many love her Bumbleberry, made with five berries and rhubarb. Rice Epicurean Markets in Houston also carry her creations. Pie in the Sky is located at 3600 North Loop 336 West. To mail-order a pie, visit www.pieintheskypieco.com, or call [936] 760-3301.