50 Recipes 2011, #25 & 26: hot & smoky baked beans; quick cucumber kimchi

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25. A Smitten Kitchen version of a Bon Appetit recipe for chipotle baked beans. Like SK, I left out the bacon, and I also made a couple other modifications: I used Boston Roman beans, because I still had some dried ones from the winter CSA; and I whipped together a quick fake barbecue sauce out of salsa, ketchup, honey, and ancho chile powder, because I was making 1/3 of a recipe, and damned if I was buying a whole bottle of BBQ sauce just for a few tablespoons of it. Delicious and vegan. Will make again.

26. Quick cucumber kimchi. It's going into vegetable bibimbap tonight, assuming I don't eat it all first.