Tahini "Goddess" dressing recipe and HUMMUS

This is my favorite salad dressing/dip/sauce in the ENTIRE WORLD, buuuut if you buy it from Annie's, it's pretty expensive! So I found a really simple and fast recipe for it on About.com! You just have to hunt down Tahini, which is made from sesame seeds.We finally found it in the gourmet section of our local store, but I've heard it can also be found sometimes by the peanut butter...

Here's how to make your own Tahini, if you can't find it in stores, or you just want to be SUPER awesome and make it yourself!

Tahini recipe

And here's the recipe for the dressing...
Goddess dressing

Once you have the Tahini *does triumphant tahini dance around kitchen* you can also make Hummus with it...I'll be posting about that soon, once I make it!

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UPDATE: Jared came home and we ended up making hummus! It was super easy. Basically, we took the recipe for the dressing, which I had left in the blender, and added half a can of garbanzo beans (chickpeas) to it, then blended it until smooth. This made it a bit thicker, because it was actually fairly thin, considering the recipe said that it would be thick. I think it might have been because I used apple juice instead of apple cider vinegar? If it's too thin, add garbanzo beans! Flour might work too?
Anyway, after adding half a can of garbanzos, we poured about 1/3 of it into an empty salad dressing jar (save your jars, folks!) and put it in the fridge. To the remaining dressing in the blender we added the rest of the 2 1/2 cans of garbanzos, gradually while the blender was set to puree.
Please note that this would be much better to do in a food processor, if you have one. Our blender started to smoke a little bit (poor dinky motor...), but it still works fine. My advice to you: just use lots of common sense and good judgement on this one. Or get a food processor. We probably will, before we make this again.
Anyway, the result was PERFECT HUMMUS!! We added a bit of dry basil, and it's amazing. It makes a lot of hummus, so it's definitely way more cost-efficient to make it than to buy it in those little tubs. Each can of garbanzo beans was less than a dollar, and the tahini was about $4, but we used maybe a quarter of the container on just this. The rest of the ingredients used were worth pennies, and you probably have them already. Good deal! We ended up with one jar of dressing (alone, this would have cost about $4), and 42 oz of hummus!