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[danceswithwords]

I made the most amazing salad in the world two Thursdays ago, and want to post the recipe here. I already posted it to Omnomnom, which has some fabulous recipes. *tips hat to cofax7 for the recommendation*

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[cindergal]

This salad sounds great, but I had to look up what farro is. ;-) And I bet I won't be able to find it around here. I couldn't even find peanut oil in our stores here when I wanted some for my stir fry the other day. So exotic, right?

[danceswithwords]

My Bay Area privilege is showing. *facepalm*

I'm sure you could substitute all pearl couscous, or spelt, which is available in most health food stores--though if peanut oil is a problem, spelt would be too. Farro and spelt are both very nutritious, though, while couscous is made from white flour, so it might be worth seeing if you can get it online at non-exhorbitant prices? Both make really great salad and soup grains, since they hold their texture well.

[rdphantom]

"I plan to maintain an active presence on both LJ and DW; DW makes it very easy to do so. I can also see that I'll be using the sites in somewhat different ways. It will be interesting to see how that works; I'm actually pretty excited about that prospect."
I'm curious to know what you might do differently in Dreamwidth. I've been thinking about trying to get an invite code since I've been seing them for offer here and there, but I wasn't really sure I wanted to mess around with it if it was going to be essentially the same as LJ. Does Dreamwidth allow your DW posts to be automatically posted to LJ also? That would be a really cool and easy way to keep both active without having to post everything twice.

RD

[danceswithwords]

DW does have a cross-posting feature that allows you to cross-post to LJ and other LJ-like sites from DW; you can also insert automated text to direct people to your DW entry if you want to direct comments there, or you can keep comments open on all of the posts. And it updates them all when you edit them, which is very handy.

I already have a somewhat different reading list on DW (one of the selling points is that it divides the friends category into people you read and people you grant access to your locked posts), and some of my flist is posting different content there. I'm also participating in a great food community there; I was long ago driven away from the food communities on LJ by what I consider to be the high volume of newbie question or junk posts. And if you follow things like RaceFail and its successor, MammothFail, the link roundup community is on DW, and a lot of the discussion is there too.

I still have a few invites, so I can give you one if you're interested.

[rdphantom]

The cross-posting feature looks really cool. The seperated reading list sounds interesting too. Is there any way to filter your reading list by tags for specific posts, or anything like that? I don't know what Race Fail or MammothFail are, but there are some Star Trek XI fic communities on DW that I'd like to keep up with.

I would love an invite code, thank you so much for offering.

[danceswithwords]

I think they're still working on reading list filters, though they have posting filters in place so that if you import your LJ to DW, all of the filters will be intact. I also think they have filtering by tag on the roadmap; in general, they seem to have a much better sense of what features LJ users like us want than SUP, which is trying to make LJ more like Facebook.

Let me know what email address to send the invitation to. If you don't want to post it publicly, you can send it to [myusername] [at] [livejournal.com].