Dressing - Take One

Monday night I knew I was coming down with something, we also had a lot of ginger to use up. We decided on something fast, easy which just so happened to also be healthy. The most obvious choice was our red lentil soup, it's super easy (broth, onions, red lentils, spices, delicious) and comes from a great cookbook, Ismail Merchant's Passionate Meals, an Indian food book which I'll maybe write about sometime, but not now. Soup was the cook's job, and he did a fine one at that. But this isn't about the cook, it's about the can't cook.
I had already chosen the Sesame-Ginger dressing from my Vegetarian Planet book (which is hit or miss - but it's usually not the book's fault). I'm not sure if I'd ever even made a dressing before. I thought it called for a good deal of dark sesame oil - 1/4 cup, but I followed the recipe - with just a touch more ginger. It was made of ginger, a little garlic, pepper, sugar, salt, apple cider vinegar all together. Then sloooowly whisking in the canola & sesame oil in order to emulsify everything together.
What a pain! It took me about 4 minutes. Four long, arm cramping minutes. But in the end, it got a "That looks great. Good job on slowly emulsifying, Jess." Of course this is before we had consumed any of it. . .
It was alright, not great and nowhere near bad; a bit too sweet and a bit too sesame-ish. Both mellowed out the next day, and was quite tasty. Cook thought it would be good in a cabbage slaw, so that's probably what's next.
Also coming up is something I've been wanting to do for a long time. Here's a hint - it's being planned around the upcoming dry periods (interpret that as you will).
And I did get sick - but not all that sick compared to other people I know around here.