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Cooking with Melanie: Bacon and Beans
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“Who doesn’t love bacon? This is a great way to get your teens to eat their greens. These green beans wrapped in bacon will be a nice addition to your family feast. Thanksgiving guests will be pleasantly surprised when you serve these fancy looking green beans instead of plain old boring green beans. I hope you enjoy this simple and delicious recipe. It is one of my family’s favorites and hopefully your family will love it too!”

Ingredients:
Fresh or frozen whole green beans (Enough to serve your guests)

1 package of bacon (cut strips in half)

Brown sugar

Soy sauce

Preheat oven to 350. Line a cookie sheet or baking pan with aluminum foil and lightly spray with cooking oil.

Make a small bundle of green beans (about 7-8 Beans in each) and wrap the bacon strip around them. Lay on prepared pan. Then sprinkle each bundle with soy sauce. Top each bundle with 1/4 teaspoon brown sugar. You can adjust soy sauce and brown sugar to your liking. Place in oven and bake 20-25 minutes or until bacon is cooked and Beans are fork tender.

Melanie Thompson is a 13-year-old seventh grader at Indian Creek Middle School has been cooking since she first helped her great grandmother, Louis, in the kitchen when she was two.