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 that we've done three GF pizza crusts, which is our favorite? We try a new recipe, Stir-Fried Quinoa with Eg...
Feb 01, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 22
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-weakened system...and when all the food has to be soft. Aislynn fills us in on the surgery, time on the cou...
Jan 25, 2021•42 min
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 With Cannabis, Black Bear, Lovers Rock, Mangrove, Chopped, Iron Chef and more. Aislynn's chocolate addict...
Jan 18, 2021•45 min
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 analysis of what makes a great Sunday Brunch. Aislynn's wish for an Unanswered Question about birth ...
Jan 11, 2021•38 min
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-hour New Year's Eve window. And we cram it all in: our 1/5/10 gift exchange and an amazing meal out at V...
Jan 04, 2021•51 min
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 a random pack every week and we never see the question before we draw it on the show. Opening/Closi...
Dec 28, 2020•58 min
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 lights up? TableTopics Question: Is it worse to discover your fly is down, spinach is in your teeth, o...
Dec 21, 2020•34 min
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 discuss whether or not we want to do one this year. (We will). The growing harvests of fresh, local food mean that ...
Dec 14, 2020•34 min
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 headed out for an annual, long girls' weekend, we don't have a microwave, it's time to make soup during o...
Dec 07, 2020•45 min
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 Question: Have you ever been in a physical fight? Links/Recipes: Aislynn's TEDx Speech, My Garden is a ...
Nov 30, 2020•44 min
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 a dog. Caishen, God of Wealth and Power....a toy poodle. Joe's obsessed with Aislynn's last wishes to 'dig ...
Nov 23, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 12
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 weekend we held Joe's father's memorial service. Joe gets as honest as he can talking about the feelings ...
Nov 16, 2020•40 min
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 using Fathead Pizza Dough. Aislynn had a problem with the too-done crust, but that's any fix for next t...
Nov 09, 2020•50 min
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 that's on the heels of some amazing goat curry. Oh, what a week at The Dinner Table where we talk about ...
Nov 02, 2020•42 min
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're starting to come in from the garden so it's soup and a casserole. Plant a tromboncino now! Then, i...
Oct 26, 2020•45 min
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 technique. The Table is a little bare lately with busy, absent kids until the house is suddenly filled with teen...
Oct 19, 2020•38 min
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 an international love story, the evolution of the restaurant, commitment to the freshest, most local...
Oct 12, 2020•55 min
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 recent Presidential debate, Joe texts the boys another cheap (for them) meal to get in touch with their own...
Oct 05, 2020•47 min
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. Unanswered Questions: How much does sperm cost? Does Farmers' Market cheese have added mold inhibitors? Did Joe buy bl...
Sep 28, 2020•45 min
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 Knolles shifted from an old-school dairy farming model toward newer, more-ethical methods. After offending...
Sep 21, 2020•42 min
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 uses half to cook us fettucini alfredo and Joe makes a delicious pot of chicken noodle soup with the re...
Sep 14, 2020•48 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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 make a quick-and-easy sausage taco meal for $7 a person which leads to a conversation about local food...
Sep 07, 2020•39 min
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 talk about where we are today and we dream about next season. Which elements of the show should we ...
Aug 31, 2020•58 min
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 flow, and the BS blocks we put up. Take-out Indian food became a Bhindi Masala challenge...which was me...
Aug 24, 2020•53 min
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 course, we added and substituted local foods (the acorn squash/carrot swap out). Aislynn reveals th...
Aug 17, 2020•41 min
Chicken Spaghetti - Chicken Salad - Cheesy Hot Crab Dip - Aislynn's Mango Delivery - New Car Fever Aislynn clearly states the intentions of this episode: sharing food abundance! From the magic of the surprise mango, to our leftover chicken management, to stories of the meals that are passing down through our generations, sharing food with others weaves its way throughout this week's episode. Oh, And then a friend makes us soup. Oh! And then our city councilman shows up with a badass mask gift. O...
Aug 10, 2020•48 min
Birthday Party Seafood Boil - Seafood Chowder - Intermittent Fasting - Going Back to School - Hurricane Hanna - Scallops - Store-Bought Cookies Hurricane Hanna made a close call since our last episode but didn't prevent Aislynn's daughter's 16-year-old out birthday party at the farm. It was a huge seafood boil where the leftovers became an incredible seafood chowder. We catch you up on Intermittent Fasting and the kids are going bck to school. Pull up a chair! There's a lot to talk about. Unansw...
Aug 03, 2020•49 min
Caprese Burgers - Pizza Night - Poolside with the Girls - Smiling in Your Mask - Black is Beautiful Joe smiled at a stranger while wearing a mask that got him to thinking, can you indentify a smile in a mask? We discuss our build-your-own-pizza night when pesto and habanero chili paste are in the mix, Aislynn takes a trip to her best friend's house for some much-needed relaxation and hormonal teen girl talk, we make caprese burgers and (even more) fried okra, and, throughout the episode, Joe acc...
Jul 27, 2020•51 min
Penne Alla Vodka - Fried Okra - Joe's Birthday Picnic - Nacho Night - Mother Sauce Challenge Conclusion - A Fight in Politics We finish up the Five Mother Sauce Challenge with the most popular meal Joe's cooked in weeks: Penne Alla Vodka. Aislynn creates an amazing birthday picnic where we break the law and get in a fight over politics which we discuss as pervading almost every single thing. It's a jam-packed episode where we invent the lecture alarm, talk personal responsibility, immune system-...
Jul 20, 2020•51 min
Steak With Your Son - Flowered Fruit Salad - Sausage in Your Freezer - Magical Mystery Tour Continued - Crazy Contraband in the Home After a birthday serenade, we talk July 4th on the farm with a family feast and fireworks and elaborate on our bubble, safe spaces, wine, and big plans. But that's only the beginning of a deep, introspective Dinner Table Talk as we reflect about this phase of staying-at-home and getting our heads around the 'new normal.' We explore our ego in conversation, our stre...
Jul 13, 2020•47 min