Recipe - Green Bean Soup

1 Three fourths pound Green beans
3 tablespoon Olive oil
1 md Onion
3 md Ripe tomatoes
2 Garlic cloves
2 Laurel leaves
1 pound Potatoes
One half pound Bread*
Eggs, poached
Salt

* Use a dayold, countrystyle loaf
In a large pan saute the onion, finely chopped, in the
olive oil. Add the tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and
broken into large pieces; trim the green beans and
break them by hand into 3 or 4 pieces, and add to the
pan. Add the garlic, the laurel leaves and the salt.
Cover the pan and let the whole cook for a while, till
tender. Add 2 pt water and the peeled, thinly cut or sliced up
potatoes. Let the whole cook till the the potatoes are
tender. Slice the bread, place in a large serving bowl
together with the poached eggs. Cover with the hot
soup, remove the laurel leaves and serve at once.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini