Dinner Table Talks

Aislynn and Joe's weekend camping trip creates a ton of food to take along, erotic headlamps, homemade ding dongs and much, much more. Unanswered Question: Does Joe eat gas station cupcakes? Random Question of the Week: What food connects you most to your childhood?

Aislynn and Joe go horseback riding on the beach and that's just the beginning: Aislynn's been eating ceviche everywhere she goes and Joe talks about the first success and failure on his sugar fast. Joe talks about his fandom, obsession, and cold-turkey quitting of Howard Stern. Plus, a must-cook-at-home story about Calabazas con Pollo. The deep analysis of Joe continues as Season Two begins to wr...

It was only a matter of time before we discussed our sex life and a new TV show, "Sex Life," finally gets us there. We talk about how important communication with the kiddos and one another is about the good old s-e-x along with how interesting it is that sex (and poop) are both 'inappropriate' for polite dinner conversation. Joe talks about his recent decision to do a sugar fast over the next 21...

We went to a new Teppanyaki restaurant, and, man, "do we have a lot to talk about." From the life-size Momoa Aquaman statue to the banging drums, everyone's going out again and making a lot of noise. Aislynn talks about her business today after we discussed it on the podcast one year ago this week. Throw in a little internet rage, shelling peas, instant Google, a larder, cucumber-dill soup, doggy-...

On the one-year anniversary of our first 'Magical Mystery Tour' episode, we go on another trip. All aboard! From black-eyed peas to getting the feels about moving. There's a sub-par chicken pot pie, local chain restaurant history and thoughts, fried eggs with butter, two new stingers on the way and so much more. Unanswered Questions:  How many Casa Oles and Black-Eyed Pea Restaurants are stil...

Slow-Smoked Brisket - Tandoori Chicken Wings - Cole Slaw - Summer Vegetable Curry - First Restaurant Jobs - Cast Iron Disaster - High on the Hog Joe almost killed everyone after an overnight cast iron disaster, but every crisis is an opportunity. We slow-smoke a brisket and go slow and low into this S. Texas delicacy. We crash Lillie's new (first) job and take a walk down memory lane about all our...

Fish Tacos with Avocado Lime Sauce - Aislynn the Bright Model - Kitchen Ascension: Cast Iron 101 - Summer Vegetable Chicken Soup - Summer Heat and Humidity - Onion Overflow Aislynn is bringing home LOADS of vegetables which become Joe's produce aisle. He visits the ailed and whips up fish tacos that got rave reviews and a summer vegetable chicken soup that has EVERYTHING in it. Joe's been pra...

Farm to Table Pizza Party - Our Explicit Podcast - An Evolved Summer Salad - Ice Cream Topping Boards - Bar/Snack Hopping - Agua Chile at YOLA - The Evolution of Sustenance to Art - Ingredients, Concept and Technique TableTopics Question:  Would you rather have everyone love you but hate yourself or the reverse? Links: Aislynn's Farm to Table Dinners Knolle Dairy Farm

Green Chili Pork Stew - Metropolis 's Kim Rios Talks Bathing Suits, Joe's Anxiety and College Algebra - Don't Watch This Movie - Duplicating a New Restaurant's Recipes - Simple Corn on the Cob - Squash Au Gratin Casserole Good friend and owner of Metropolis , Kim Rios, comes in to talk about Joe's anxiety that came up last week but stays to remember the old times and talk about her styling busines...

Broccoli, Cauliflower, Chicken Mac & Cheese - Planning a Weekend Getaway - It's Flooding!/The Weather of 2021 - Pre-Meal Anxiety - Pizza Temper Tantrum Join us on Facebook | Join us on Instagram After a busy week of non-cooking, we finally return to the kitchen with our favorite family dish: Broccoli, Cauliflower, Chicken Mac & Cheese. But not before some more dining out anxiety from Joe a...

Tex-Mex Squash Casserole - Cucumber and Tomato Salad - Taqueria Breakfast Orders - What's In Your Smoothie? - Aislynn's Ascension Celebration - Energetic Standards - Aislynn Has a Crush - Empaths As he walked into this week's recording session, Aislynn offered Joe a smoothie which sparked the natural question, "What is in it?" Everything is the answer and Aislynn goes into detail about her exhaust...

Super Simple, Very Green Soup - The New One-Year-Ago Segment - Upper-Level Energy Conversations Over a Meal - Thrifting Before Thrifting Was Cool - Joe's Upcoming Teppanyaki Show Unanswered Questions: What happens when you Google 'Hacha Hacha'? Butchering vs. slaughtering TableTopics Question: What do you remember from your first day of school? This Week's Links: Super Simple, Very Green Soup Mexi...

Aislynn's First Farm to Table Cooking Experience: Four Courses of Stories - Chicken Vegetable Fried Rice (Hacha Hacha Chicka Chicka) - Where Were We Last Week? - Mr. Picky Visits Again - Joe's Seasonal Idea After discussing last week's 'Missing Episode,' Joe and Aislynn dive into a full report of AC's amazingly successful first Farm to Table Cooking Experience. From collecting and harvesting the f...

A little Joe holdover. What's going on with 'The Missing Episode?'

Venison Backstrap - Basic Southern Greens - Creamy Brussels Sprouts With Ground Beef - Adventures In The Hospital - Joe's Exhausted After a week of hospital visitation (Joe explains), Aislynn tires of take-out and cooks a meal...with a lot of Joe's help! Who exactly is the executive chef in this house? It was a big week at The Dinner Table with Aislynn's Creamy Brussels Sprouts and Ground Beef, ba...

Easter Feast - Smoked Wagyu - Aislynn's Overflow of Abundance - Broccoli Cauliflower Casserole - A Sold Out Farm to Table Cooking Experience At least one kid made it home for Easter so we pulled all the stops with smoked brisket and wagyu, an Aislynn Salad, potato salad, AC's mom's fermented crudite, homemade strawberry ice cream and so much more. You hear about it all. Aislynn's Overflow of Abund...

Cocktails at Home - Crawfish Omelets - Beyond Beef - Outrage Culture - Chicken, Kale and White Bean Soup - Who's Quirky? A $15 martini proves, yet again, that we can do it better at home. Add the loss of a beer partner and our craft cocktail-at-home game has been rising. We talk about the top drinks we make at home, Aislynn's love/hate relationship with olives, bloody mary skewers, peeled oranges,...

Mediterranean Lamb Bowls Revisited - Taco Salad - What 5 Things Do You Do First in the Morning? - I Love Housekeeper Day -  Valuing People and Self Worth - A Stove Knob Kitchen Catastrophe We start with a kitchen catastrophe with disintegrating stove knobs and quickly move into the first five things we each do in the morning, an intersecting web of early, poopy activity. We explore our own pr...

The Accidental Sleepover - Smoked Pork Tacos v. Roasted Pork - Packing Your Mate - The 'Make Your Freebirds Burrito' Game An impromptu visit to Jessica's becomes an accidental sleepover for Aislynn complete with a clothes delivery from Joe. The guys wouldn't leave so it became a party complete with Smoked Pork Tacos. Joe made roasted pork this week also, and Aislynn can't help but compare the two....

Crawfish Chowder - (Expensive) Gluten Free Pizza Delivered - Joe's Top Five Films of 2020 - A Wall of Stench 2021 Crawfish Chronicles Part 1 Last week, Joe put all the leftover crawfish tail meat in the freezer and Aislynn made a list of all the crawfish dishes she wanted to be made. Joe starts at the top of the list with Crawfish Chowder, served with grilled cheese sandwiches and salad. Served to...

Crawfish Boil - Saag Paneer - Krabby Patties  - Unexpected Dinner Guest - Planning Dinner On The Show Sometimes your dinner makes sense given what you had to prepare, but there's no way what you've prepared comes across as anything resembling a fancy meal. And then an unexpected guest comes to dinner. It's an unexpected Dinner Table Talk! We detail Joe's every experience as lead cook at a 90...

Chicken Caldo - Aislynn's Smoothie Regimen - Learning Basic Life Skills - Meal Planning With Friends - Pantry, Freezer, and Fridge Staples - Shared Grocery Lists Unanswered Questions: Potatoes at 75 MPH How long can the grocery store be out of power before they throw away refrigerated foods? What are McDonald's 19 french fry ingredients? TableTopics Question: What grade would you give yourself for...

Our Crazy Week During The 2021 Great Texas Freeze Apocalypse - Broccoli Cheese Soup - Losing Power - Losing Water - Vegetable Beef Soup - Ghost Town Grocery Stores - Paying for Firewood - Busted Pipes - Irish Coffees If you read the news or live in Texas you know this past week was the perfect storm of weather, power, and water catastrophes in Texas. We tell our entire story from the front li...

Chicken Tandoori Care Package - Cauliflower Sausage Hash Care Package - Double Dip French Fries - A Life of Abundance - Shoes Go In The Freezer - Horror Movies This week's Dinner Table Talks goes into overdrive during TableTopics which somehow ties the whole episode together. Why would you rather be a girl or a boy? Our daughters around the table and the conversations we'd had this week, including...

(Grain Free, Not Quite) Yakisoba - Spinach Mushroom Chicken Enchiladas - Panties in the Backyard - We Should Do a Cookbook - Wasting Lettuce Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar   It's Just Aislynn Facebook Group - Go down the Gardening Rabbit Hole with Aislynn While throwing away a whole bag of gross, forgotten, bottom-of-the-produce-drawer lettuce, Joe finds a pair of panties in the backya...