Ingredients:

3 strips bacon (frozen and lightly thawed, sliced and diced) minus all but 2 t cooked fat

1 t butter or olive oil

3 med cloves garlic (peeled, sliced, minced)

1/2 lg portobello mushroom cap (rinsed, dried, sliced, diced)

4-5 t flour

1 1/2 c half and half

1 c boiling hot water

1-2c knorr veggie cube or equivalent

2-10 1/2 oz french cut frozen green beans (thawed, covered in boiling water for a few minutes, drained and covered in cold water for a few minutes, drained and pat dry a bit)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400°. French's fried onions or lightly fried and floured shallots or Panko fried onions.

2. Lightly oil frying pan, fry diced bacon to light brown, tip pan, spoon off fat except for 2 T. Add butter or oil, add garlic and fry a bit, add mushroom and fry a bit. Add flour and brown all till bacon is crispy. Turn off heat and cool a bit. Add half and half and scrape flour off bottom of pan, turn on burner to med or med high. Add the double strength broth. Cook and stir to light boil and boil for 1 min stirring constantly. Add green beans, return to boil, and boil another 1-2 min stirring occasionally. Pour into buttered baking dish or use the oven safe fry pan. Top with 3. French's, fried shallots, or Panko onions. Bake 5 min, remove. Let rest 10 min.

Bon Appetit!