Double the amount of olive oil to make it a little less viscous and it makes a great dressing for composed salads.
Roasting a bunch of vegetables makes a dinner party easy, but the real hosting superpower is serving them alongside a trio of sauces. Stir a few pantry items together for one, open a bottle for another, and throw some herbs and other stuff in the food processor for the third.
Stir 1/4 cup cold water into 1/2 cup tahini until it thickens, a seemingly magic transformation that deomstrates the food chemistry involving the hydrophilic properties of certain carbohydrate molecules (the water-loving carbs latch onto the water; add more water and the tahini gets runny again).
Mix in 2 tablespoons garlic sauce, 2 tablespoons olive oil and 2 tablespoons vinegar.