Green Bean Casserole

Green Bean Casserole
by Sleepysandi

The real stuff without the can.

Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup chopped onions
2 (4oz) cans sliced mushrooms; save the juice
1 (5oz) can sliced water chestnuts, drained
2 (26oz) cans green beans
Melt the 1/2 cup of butter, saute the onions until clear and limp; add the musthrooms and water chestnuts and continue to saute briefly. Mix in the beans and set aside.

Then: Make a cream sauce
4 tablespoons of butter or marg
1/3 cup of flour
1tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
mushroom liquor
1 cup milk
2 tsp. soy sauce
1/8 tsp. tabasco sauce
2 cups cheese, shredded (I used cheddar)

Procedure
Combine salt, pepper milk, mushroom liquor, soy sauce and tobasco into measuring cup.
Melt butter/marg into sauce pan over medium high heat, stirring continually, as not to burn.
Slowly add the liquid continually stirring.
continue to stir until it begins to boil and thicken
Add 2 cups of shredded cheese and stir until the cheese melt.

Place 1/2 of the green bean mixture in the bottom of a large, shallow casserole. Cover with 1/2 of the sauce and then repeat. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until heated thoroughly. Sprinkle crumbled French fried onion rings on top and bake 10 minutes longer.