Green Bean Sausage Casserole

1. 1

   Prepare the fresh green beans, cutting them into bite sized pieces (canned would be good, but add them later, with the tomatoes).

2. 2

   Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

3. 3

   Cook the sausage, breaking it up as it cooks, adding the fresh green beans to the pan at the same time as the sausage.

4. 4

   Add in the chopped onion at the same time.

5. 5

   When the sausage is no longer pink, and the green beans and onions are soft, add in the whole can, juice and all, of the tomatoes.

6. 6

   Let simmer while you make the white sauce (in small saucepan melt 2 T. butter or bacon grease, add into the pan 2 T. of flour, and slowly add 2 cups milk or milk/half and half combo until the sauce is done thickening to a creamy gravy consistency, add pepper only, no salt because the sausage is already pretty salty).

7. 7

   Stir the cheese slices into that sauce until they are melted into it.

8. 8

   Put the bread cubes into the bottom of a small casserole pan (I used 9 X 9), pour the green bean/sausage mixture on top of those, and last, smooth the cheese sauce on top of that, pushing it down a bit into the mixture below.

9. 9

   Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

* Per serving · 4 servings · Values may vary.