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Fran

@gmafran.bsky.social

Retired Early Childhood Special Education Teacher and Administrator. Wife, Mom, Gma, and Dog mom to Emma & Mac. Living life in Oregon.

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Hope Mom and Mabel are feeling better and we know what made Mabel mad this week.

01.03.2026 05:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was a roast, not steaks

26.02.2026 19:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I picked up a petite sirloin tip this week and we had it for dinner last night. After a ten minute rest it was a perfect medium rare (135°F). With it, homemade horseradish sauce, stir fried veggies, salad, and smashed Parmesan topped mini potatoes. Delicious.
#glutenfree
#food🍜
#🍽️
#beef

26.02.2026 17:46 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A friend named his Dalmatian, Two Hearts. She had a heart around each eye.

25.02.2026 03:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Emma loves veggies on her breakfast and dinner. The more the merrier she says. Mom will try raw spinach soon.

25.02.2026 01:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Emma and Mac decided to join in the TOT fun.
#dogsofbluesky
#goldenflatcoatmix
#labrador
#TOT

24.02.2026 23:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sunday Soup. Tonight's soup was Mexican seafood with veggies. A seafood broth base (Pensey's) with tomato sauce, potatoes, celery, onion, carrots, zucchini, chipotle and 3 kinds of fish. With it beer bread and a Margarita.
#glutenfree
#soup
#seafood
#bread
#food🍜
#Nationalmargaritaday

23.02.2026 02:28 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Had pineapple jam, Canadian bacon, and regular bacon on my pizza last night

22.02.2026 15:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rope tug is one of Mac's favorite games

22.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If you happen to be in the Reno, NV area, it's R Town Pizza.

22.02.2026 03:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pizza Night. A friend shared a picture of a Detroit pizza she ordered from a place in Reno, NV. I made my OR version of it for our dinner. Topped with mozzarella, pineapple jam, Canadian bacon, bacon, peppers, Parm, & stripes of red sauce on a gf crust.
#glutenfree
#pizza
#🍽️
#🍜

22.02.2026 02:33 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Looks fantastic and a lot like my tuna sub on a homemade bolillo from last night's dinner.

20.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Best tuna sub I have had in years. Credit goes to Chef Alina for another great bread recipe.

20.02.2026 03:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Baking again. Gluten free Mexican Bolillos for tonight's sandwiches. Cooling now but they have that crunchy crust Bolillos are known for.
#glutenfree
#baking
#bread
#Mexicanbreads

19.02.2026 23:04 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Dinner and dessert. Baked chicken legs, Garnet yams, my take on the Columbia restaurant 1905 salad, and chocolate peanut butter chip cookies. So delicious and no, the hubs and I didn't eat all those cookies but we could have. Delicious.
#glutenfree
#🍽️
#food🍜
#baking
#cookies

19.02.2026 03:30 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When I was little my dad would take me to the Farmer's Market in Los Angeles and we would get rare prime rib sandwiches (French dip). Don't let those memories slip away. Make them at home and keep telling your stories to us all. You never know when you will trigger a memory for someone else.🤗

19.02.2026 03:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sausage and cheese muffins. I wrap individually and freeze. They are perfect for a grab and go breakfast or snack after one minute microwave warmup.

#glutenfree
#muffins
#baking
#🍽️

18.02.2026 15:59 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Until your dog figures out how to open it. Ours now sits backwards so this boy can't swipe his head over the motion sensor.

18.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I made Blueberry Buttermilk pancakes yesterday . A delicious start to the morning and ridiculously easy to make from scratch.

#glutenfree
#pancakeday
#breakfast
#🍽️
#food🍜

18.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Same at our house.

18.02.2026 14:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My favorite T.O.T. picture of Mac. This is his usual bedtime face.

17.02.2026 22:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Breaded and air fried chicken breast, Caesar salad, and a dinner roll with French butter. Simply scrumptious.

#glutenfree
#🍽️
#food🍜
#chicken
#bread
#baking

17.02.2026 03:40 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tonight we had a delicious Dirty Martini pasta. The Jovial gf pasta was tossed in a sauce made with Castelvetrano green olives, vodka, garlic, olive oil, a little pasta water and butter. It was then topped with crumbled blue cheese and toasted walnuts. Not low calorie
#glutenfree
#pasta
#food🍜
#🍽️

16.02.2026 02:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy Valentine's Day. Our neighbor gave us some duck breasts from a recent hunting trip. Sous Vide, sauteed, and served with a marionberry sauce, potatoes, green beans, and homemade rolls. Ice cream & chocolate dipped strawberries for dessert.
#glutenfree
#🍽️
#food🍜
#duck
#bread

15.02.2026 04:06 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Friday Fish...Sable fish (aka Black Cod) baked in a garlic butter sauce, a zucchini and corn casserole, and rice.

#gluten Free
#🍽️
#food🍜
#fish

14.02.2026 03:44 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'd have a tough time leaving Whidbey, I'm sure she would too. OR is pretty awesome though.

13.02.2026 21:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nobody can see my hidden tire, right?

#dogsofbluesky
#dogs
#goldenflatcoatretrieverx

13.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I eat the same once or twice a year.😋

11.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I dehydrated orange slices at Christmas time for decorations.

11.02.2026 20:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Picked up some of these Portuguese sausages at Costco and made a new sheet pan recipe for sausage, potatoes, onion, and fresh tomatoes in a broth with water, smoked paprika, S & P, red wine vinegar. Baked for 2 hours until broth mostly evaporated.
#glutenfree
#food🍜
#🍽️
#sheetpanmeals

10.02.2026 05:05 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0