Dinner Table Talks

Super Bowl Food - Chicken Eggplant Stir Fry -Tripas Challenge Results - 25 Places to Eat Right Now - Joe Prepares a Chicken The Super Bowl is one of the most watched television events of the year and we were right there eating, enjoying the halftime show and rejecting the furor it created. Learn how we cooked the chicken that was included in our quesadillas while we also tell the adventure of Aisl...

It's crawfish season so we dig in and tell you all about it. Crawfish at the farm, how Aislynn eats them, leftover Crawfish Vegetable Fried Rice and all the great Dinner Table Talks. We tackle Panang Curry (again), Roti, Paneer Cheese and Saffron in Unanswered Questions and Joe gets weirdly passionate about this week's TableTopics question. Oh, and Joe did find Darlene Schmidt.

Fried, Fresh Seasonal Vegetables - Saag Paneer - Chicken Tikka Masala - Are We Meat Snobs? - A Trip to the Asian Market - The Saffron Story - Top 5 Knives for the Kitchen - Curry is Confusing

Our First 'Friends with Benefits - Short Ribs - Ratatouille - Restaurant Nostalgia - Talking about Movies Ian and Monica O'Keefe are our guinea pigs for our new series 'Dinner with Friends.' We dine at a friend's house and then they join us in the studio to talk about it, what they served, how they cook, how they eat and then we let the conversation go where it may. We talk Monica's short ribs, Ia...

Thai Food for New Years - Eating Offal (An Intestine Eating Challenge) - Spaghetti Squash Chicken Casserole - Mall Shopping with the Kids Two weeks into 2020, we talk about our very special New Year’s Eve where we enjoyed not one, but two exciting meals. Hear all about this nice round number, "that was a joke," becoming less local, being a better public speaker, the Scoville Scale, La Tiara taco s...

Charcuterie - Aislynn Snorts - Intro to Our Wedding - Making Tacos - Best Junk Food Ever We sit down at the dinner table (Joe’s son Hunter makes a guest appearance) and we talk about almost everything including beautiful women that snort, sharp knives, chilled onions, wearing peppers with gloves, getting together or whatever, antipasto, the plowman’s dinner, meze plates, one piece of pizza, charcu...

Christmas Eve Steakhouse Adventure - Christmas Lunch - Making Wine - Why Men Scratch Themselves We sit down at the dinner table again and talk about almost everything including wingmen, pedestrian safety by the statistics, words you can’t say on the radio, why men scratch their balls, hand-washing obsessions, living on the cool side of town, Ol’ Steakhouse, $3 martinis, messing with Jimmy, making...

From our first in-studio special guest (Aislynn’s son in a surprise sit-down) to a story one of us never talks about, we cover it all in this week’s episode including our most popular Facebook post ever, Yuxi Jiang Bing Gua Squash, seed catalogs (Aislynn’s porn), getting your downtown healthy, loving hotel bars, Republic of Texas Bar and Grill, dirty martinis, vanishing suitors, escargot, tuna tar...

The Dinner Table is at Bellino Ristorante Italiano for Aislynn’s birthday and we dive deep into the whole shebang along with a congealed salad follow up with our biggest fan, Luby’s and the cafeteria, changing taste buds, making your restaurateur friends not work at their restaurant, getting vetoed, creating a guest list, dinner party seating charts, dinner party escapes, comped wine, the small to...

The Dinner Table is deep and wide this week with Joe’s son in for the weekend from college. We talk daily wine, cilantro, historical green bowls,  coriander, our biggest fan, cumin, breaking the bean barrier, going around, the history of paprika, Carrot Top, a huge seafood spread, our first show voicemail, JHAC, the perfect s’more, anchos v. poblanos, mustard-based potato salad, goulash reque...

Thanksgiving! It’s the biggest Dinner Table Talk of the year and we talk all about it! Homemade green bean casserole, unplanned trips to the grocery store, secret ingredients, Okja, honey-roasted radishes, an Aislynn editorial, green congealed salads in green bowls, rocks in your wine, corn casseroles, jalapeno-cranberry sauce, stuffing v. dressing, rocks in your bra, riding ponies, fresh-cured ha...

We love talking music with our kids. We influence them and, even better, they influence us. We talk about why we knew the words to every 90s country song that came on at the BBQ place and the two stop process that broke that horrible lapse in judgment. That leads us into a talk about Tyler the Creator, Drake, booing and then you know how it goes...we talk about everything else. Homemade ranch dres...

We love food festivals and our local Greek Festival is one of the stars of the show this week providing Aislynn’s favorite meal of the week. That leads us into a talk about gyros, doner kebabs, our Food Journey lunch group and then you know how it goes...we talk about everything else. Thick Mahi, pussyfooting, prohibition, al pastor, shawarma, frozen hamburger discs, mussels off a truck, municipal...

Joe always says, “We’ve eaten 21 meals since the last time we got together,” but is that accurate? We start about who skips which meals and quickly move into a delicious 4-course meal at our favorite local restaurant. This we talk about getting donged, the joys of hyperthyroidism, raising backyard chickens and what we do with the eggs, Farm TV, Hurricane Harvey, what the best restaurateurs do (as...

Chili dogs, chicken wings, parties, politics and Fleabag. This Dinner Table Talk is a 100-course meal. Exactly one year after Aislynn’s mayoral campaign, we reflect on the ins and outs of that election while saving room to talk about a launch plan, how we find podcasts, wonderful invitations, asking friends for help, the ingredients of a hot dog, future guests, age gaps, the birth of the chicken w...

Is there any more comfortable situation than talking S-E-X with your kids? Well, it came up this week and we tell you all about it. We talk about shitterdams, left hand/right hand etiquette, the Breakfast Taco Capital of the World, a Joe’s Treatise on Balding recap, man boobs, Aislynn’s irrational hatred of classic Italian sauces, Homecoming angst, late-night teen parties, the female equivalent of...

It’s Day Two at Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL). We talk food, fun, family, music and balding in a whirlwind Austin, TX weekend. Looking for Joe's Treatise on Balding that every balding man should listen to? It begins at 38:46. Our first (and only?) 'explicit' episode, ACL Day Two elicits the first appearance of real tears while we talk about brunch in Austin, that Queso Is Life, Velveeta,...

Joe, Aislynn and the whole family went to weekend one of the Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL). This episode details the food, fun, family, music and claustrophobia of Day One. Next week: Day Two. We talk about Ethiopian food, blisters, never saying 'meta' again, a midnight run to Magnolia Cafe, Aislynn's love of Thom Yorke, Tame Impala claustrophobia, managing teenage girls, saying words th...

When you're in a silly mood....record! Raw oysters, gumbo and pulled pork reign supreme as Joe and Aislynn talk about their favorite meals and favorite dinner conversations of the week. Pull up a chair and learn more about being fake, being meta, stingers, unanswered questions, hashtags, bebos, pebos, #JHAC, how boring instant pot talk is, the necessary talks about aging and death, Bob Ross Hallow...

Tromboncino squash is the star of the show as we pull up to the dinner table and talk about global population, women's volleyball, ferris wheels, recipe tag teams, boullion cubes, fart-smelling broth, Inglorious Basterds, 'The Italians,' craft cocktail binging and the first thing Joe's buying when we win the lottery. This week's dinner talk question:  What's your favorite ride at an amusement...

A deep dive into how we eat, shop and cook...a little too deep? The running time says maybe. As the upcoming Austin City Limits Music Festival dominates our dinner table, we talk about our partnership in the kitchen, seasonal availability, Aislynn's shifting attitude toward restaurant meat, Lemon Parmesan Chicken with Squash, a trip down ACL memory lane, Voodoo Donuts, alcoholic ice cream, BBQ, In...

This week's dinner table talks run the gamut from BBQ to out-of-town salmon, rule-breaking to rule-setting, Aislynn's new rules about meat in restaurants and Joe's relationship with rules that don't make sense . This week's dinner talk question:  What do you most admire about your parents?

In our first full-length episode, we take a deep dive into the best of this week's dinner table meals and talks including: pho, King Ranch chicken, bidets-as-gifts, college-age drinking, alternative uses of cauliflower, breakfast tacos, standing up to local leaders and much, much more. Our dinner talk question of the week: Have you ever stood up for something you believe in? 

In the first episode of Dinner Table Talks, Aislynn and Joe explain the origin of the podcast with a little background about who they are and why the dinner table has played such an important part of their lives together. Pull up a chair. Dinner's ready.