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      Title: Garlic Beans Three Ways
 Categories: Side dish, Vegetables
      Yield: 4 Servings

      1 lb Fresh green beans
           -diagonally cut or whole
      4 ts Butter
      1 cl Garlic

  Wash and prepare beans.  Place in a saucepan of
  boiling water; cook for 4 to 6 minutes, until
  tender-crisp.  Drain beans in a sieve.  Quickly place
  pan back on low heat.  Add butter, melt.  Add garlic;
  then beans.  Toss. Serves: 4

  To Prepare beans early in day, drain beans after
  boiling; quickly cool under cold water.  Drain again
  and pat dry.  At serving time, melt butter in a fry
  pan.  Add garlic, then beans and cook only until beans
  are hot.

  Add either or both of the following:

  4 slices bacon, crisply cooked and crumbled.
  1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted

  Typed in MMFormat by cjhartlin@msn.com  Source: Good
  Friends Cookbook.

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