Green Bean Casserole

When I was contemplating what to make for dinner last night, I remembered that I had a baggie of green beans in the fridge from a friends garden. My husband isn't a huge fan of green beans but he said he would be up for some green bean casserole. And I thought, yummm I LOOOVE green bean casserole. However, I didn't have all the ingredients. So I improvised.


First, I snapped the green beans and put them in my bowl. I didn't have a ton of green beans obviously, it was like a 1 1/2 cups total. Obviously, using more would have been better but I was using what I have.

Then I rinsed the green beans off, threw some EVOO and garlic in a pan and threw the green beans in. I had them looking while I was preheating the oven @ 350 degrees.

Meanwhile, in a small pan, since I wasn't using a lot of green beans, I poured in 1 can of cream of chicken (wanted to use cream of mushroom but I didn't have any), 1/3 cup of milk, and some pepper. I mixed it all up.

Then I dumped in the green beans and here comes the sad part, I didn't have any French fried onions (GASP) so I used bread crumbs. Obviously, not as tasty, but they worked in a pinch. I poured in around 1/3 cup with the mixture and then put it in the oven for 25 minutes.

After 25 minutes, I took it out and poured some more bread crumbs on top and decided to throw some mozz cheese on top.

Five minutes later, I pulled it out and here it is. My husband devoured it, but I determined that the french fried onions make he green bean casserole for me.