Dinner Table Talks

Stir-Fried Quinoa with Eggplant and Cabbage, Grain-Free Pizza Dough Challenge: Cauliflower Crust, Fermented Foods, When You're Not Around The Dinner Table As Much Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar   It's Just Aislynn Facebook Group - Go down the Gardening Rabbit Hole with Aislynn Our Grain-Free Pizza Dough Challenge either continues or concludes with cauliflower crust this go round. Now t...

Aislynn's Dental Surgery - Gut Health and Antibiotics - Fudge - Smoothies Cauliflower Pakora Soup - Turnip Potato Soup -  Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar It's Just Aislynn Facebook Group - Go down the Gardening Rabbit Hole with Aislynn Aislynn's dental surgery this week sent shockwaves through our home with concerns about the food and nutrition that are required to boost an antibiotic-w...

Cabbage Roll Soup - Leftover Roast and Vegetables - Aislynn's Chocolate Addiction - Take Out Sushi - Our TV Time - Alexa Farts Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar It's Just Aislynn Facebook Group - Go down the Gardening Rabbit Hole with Aislynn Aislynn's Intuitive Gardening Online Mastermind The new Netflix show Best Leftovers Ever! gets us talking about our TV time. Queens Gambit, Cooking...

Sunday Brunch At A New Joint - Joe's New Woks - Birth Order Talk In Depth - Aislynn's Overflow of Abundance Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar Aislynn's Intuitive Gardening Online Mastermind Joe's new woks are coming in handy with all of Aislynn's produce. He asks, "Where has the wok been all my life?" Aislynn has an answer. The gang goes out for Sunday Brunch at a new spot, Muse, prompting an...

Vietnamese New Year Feast - JHAC Reunited - Aislynn's Intuitive Gardening Mastermind - Bloody Marys Continued - Our 1/5/10 Gift Exchange - Cocoa Bombs Around a Wet Fire - A City Filled With Fireworks Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar Aislynn's Intuitive Gardening Online Mastermind After Joe's kids missed our Christmas celebration last week, they're in town just in the nick of time for a 7...

Christmas At The Farm 2020 - Brunch Egg Casserole Bloody Marys - Hallmark Christmas Movie Eve - Egg Drop Soup and Stir-Fried Chinese Greens Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar TableTopics Question: What's the most unusual gift you've ever received? TableTopics is a game we've picked up along the way that is simply a box of questions designed to create conversation. We draw a random question from...

Butternut Squash Soup - Grain-Free Pizza Crust Challenge Cont. - Are We Snobs? - Where Does Aislynn Eat Chicken? Two local fan interactions lead us to ask: Are we food snobs? What is a snob anyway? We handle a pile of stored butternut (and other) squash in a delicious butternut squash soup and continue the grain-free pizza crust challenge. Unanswered Questions: Did we get the Christmas tree and li...

Girls' Weekend Full Report - Kale Chips and Deviled Eggs - Putting Up The Christmas Tree - Roast and Green Beans To Go - Joe's Boiled Eggs  Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar Aislynn returns from her girls' weekend in Wimberly filled with stories aplenty involving the food she took, homemade birthday cake and broccoli cheese soup,  She returns to a Christmas tree-free house and we dis...

Veggie-Filled Tomato Sauce - Tortilla Soup - DTT Ethics Committee In Session - Aislynn's Annual Girls' Weekend - Real Food Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar The Dinner Table Talks ethics committee convenes to choose our next shared ethic between the discussion of two great meals: a chunky tomato sauce that Aislynn can get on board with and the daughter-requested Tortilla Soup. Aislynn is heade...

Thanksgiving 2020 at the Farm - Who Came? - Who Brought What? - Aislynn's Long Salad Story - Green Bean Casserole - Turnip Mashed Potatoes - A Tour of the Farm Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar Thanksgiving 2020 is one for the history books! Pull up a chair! Unanswered Questions: Did Aislynn come up with an answer to last week's TableTopics? Pronouncing 'Foie Gras' and 'Burial' TableTopics Que...

Sticky Asian Ribs - Turnip Mashed Potatoes - Caishen: God of Wealth and Power - Burning a Body in Texas - Jewish Food Festival Report - A Visit to Cured   Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar Joe philosophizes about improvisational growth in the kitchen and happily prepares two racks of ribs Sticky Asian-style. Turnip Mashed Potatoes on the side: a step-by-step. Big, BIG family news: we got...

Breakfast For Dinner: Poblano/Kale Breakfast Tacos - Joe's Dad's Memorial Service - Greek Festival Report - Jewish Food Festival Preview Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar Sometimes you just want breakfast for dinner! But, Aislynn points out, fill it with vegetables! The result this week is easy-as-anything sausage/egg tacos with some grilled poblanos and kale.  Everyone's happy! This past...

Grilled Eggplant Pizza - The Day After The Election - Aislynn's TedX Talk - Homemade Pizza Salt - "Who's OJ Simpson?" - Joe's Sugar Fast Update Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar After Aislynn made 'Pizza Salt' with some fresh herbs, it was time to pick up the Grain-Free Pizza Crust Challenge and make some pizza. With eggplant fresh out of the garden, we made a little Grilled Eggplant Pizza usi...

Instant Pot Pork Chops - Goat Curry - Lack Mentality and a City's Self Esteem - Joe's First Indian and Vietnamese Food Trips - Aislynn Talks to Fans - Asparagus Pee - Joe Starts a 21-Day Sugar Fast - The Local/Global Tightrope - Flat Sugar Soda - A JHAC Snack Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar Joe makes 'the best pork chops [Aislynn's] ever had.' Did you read that? The BEST pork chops. And...

Poke Bowls To Go - Tromboncino Casserole - Headed to the Farm - Trading Cocktails for Flowers Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar BIG NEWS in this week's episode parked between two food adventures: The Journey of the Tromboncino and poke bowls to go. But first, Aislynn flirts with a bartender and trades drinks for plants. Those tromboncinos are 3' long squash and look like Gandalf's cane. They'r...

Beefy Eggplant Parmesan - Daughters at The Dinner Table - Burgers and Fries - It's Just  Aislynn Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar After complimenting Joe's lovely eyes, Aislynn catches us up about her new business, It's Just Aislynn. The secret to this week's burgers and fries is rejecting the bag of frozen sweet potato fries and making them ourselves. Joe explains his double cook techni...

Friends with Benefits IS BACK with The Italians: Francesco and Susan Inguaggiato, owners of Bellino Ristorante Italiano . Our favorite restaurant in town! Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar The glorious return of Friends With Benefits had to be big. Our friends Francesco and Susan served a spread in a private room at Bellino that we can't begin to describe. We detail our Italian feast and hear...

Long Distance Chicken Enchiladas - The Pizza Crust Challenge Begins - DTT Ethics Council Meeting - Crushed Red Pepper - Planning The Oyster Boil Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar "Goodbye, Charleston. Hello, back to normal."  If normal means planting, sending the boys another recipe, getting into a 'spirited debate,' accepting a challenge, and going to space. After not talking about the r...

Steamed Oysters - AIslynn's Trip to Charleston, SC - Raw Oysters - Lamb Pâté - Magnolia Plantation Tour - The Obstinate Daughter Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar   Aislynn and her mom take an impromptu trip to Charleston, SC, and we're along for the ride. Joe asks, simply, "What did you eat? What did you drink? What did you see? What did you learn?" And she answered them all.  Unans...

Mediterranean Feast: Greek Steak Salad, Baba Ganoush, Basil Hummus - Healing Trauma - Steak, Baked Potato, and Salad - Touring a Local Dairy Farm Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar After celebrating the 21st birthday of her son, Aislynn takes us on a trip to Knolle Dairy Farm starting with a baby cow on the porch. She rustles cattle, visits the birthing room, and explains why and how the Knolle...

Chicken Noodle Soup - Revisiting Masala - Morals v. Ethics - Hashing Out Freedom Harvest Island Support the Show - The Virtual Tip Jar Joe opens the show crapping on himself (a new fetish) by pointing out when he slips into his 'radio voice.' That moves us into a conversation about Joe and Aislynn's propensity to steal all the 'conversation oxygen' in the room. Joe cooks a chicken and Savannah use...

Season 2 Premiere - Cooking College Sausage - Freedom Harvest Island - Aislynn's Writing a Speech - Red Light/Green Light Support the Show - The Virtual Tip Jar It's our Season Two opener. An evolutionary moment where you hear the Dinner Table Talks you know and love, but with a whole lot of new. Like the notion of spreading the Dinner Table to our boys up at college. Joe photo-journaled how to ma...

Season I Finale - A Look Back at Key Evolutionary Moments - Our Favorite Food Episodes - Brainstorming the Future - Farm-to-Table Dining at Ronin Support the Show - The Virtual Tip Jar In our Season One ender, we look back at the fun, frivolity, and food that made up the first 52 episodes of Dinner Table Talks. Hear our thoughts on the key evolutionary moments, our favorite episodes, and meals. We...

Bhindi Chicken Masala - Indian Food Take Out - The Introverted Extrovert - Backyard Campaign Season - Aislynn's Morning Routine Interrupted Our New Support Button <--Click to throw a few bucks in the tip jar; It's a Dagon Produce Giveaway week! Aislynn's morning meditation changed when that Monarch butterfly chrysalis popped and set the intention for the episode with seeds of emergence, the flo...

Pinto Beans II - Fajitas - Quesadillas - Piccadillo - Late Night Cereal - Talking to Yourself - Joe's Pinterest Board Our New Support Button <--Click to throw a few bucks in the tip jar It's a Dagon Produce Giveaway week! Joe and Aislynn enjoy a Tex-Mex-filled week of Fajitas, Quesadillas (the fajita leftovers), Picadillo, and a new Instant Pot pinto bean recipe that feels like the one. And, of...