Gumbo - Podcast Introspection - Trading Food - More Time at the Farm Joe makes his very first gumbo and it causes a chain reaction of Dinner Table Talkin' from mother sauces to a continuation of the Magical Mystery Tour. Unanswered Questions: --Pet stuck in a hot car follow up --Magical Mystery Tour clarification TableTopics Question: --What pets would we like to own?
Fresh Lemon Redfish - Father's Day Charcuterie - The Magical Mystery Tour - Merging Families - Angry Yellowjackets Joe asks Aislynn to clarify the term 'Magical Mystery Tour' after she quickly said it last week. That leads to a rolling, rabbit-hole-filled conversation about spirituality, church histories and so much more. Covid-19 sidelined going out for Father's Day so JHAC heads to the farm for the biggest charcuterie every created. Aislynn gets some fresh fish so we do what we do best: make i...
Chicken Pot Pie - Tannins Brunch - Girls' Dinner In - Ego Continued - Corona Purge - 5 Mother Sauce Challenge: Velouté Joe prepares velouté, the fourth Mother Sauce in our 5 Sauce Challenge, for a chicken pot pie that is fantastic...with a crust fail twist. We revisit 'ego' in Unanswered Questions and it weaves its way throughout a multi-part thought-purge on Corona, finger pointing, everyone's bubbling unrest and everything in between. Crocs at brunch, girls night in, strip club conveyer belts ...
Roasted (and Stewed) Pork Leg Tacos - Lemon Marmalade & Ball-Burning Habanero Sauce - A Time for Cameras - Get a Garage Fridge - Battling Egos - Our Wild Cat Well after some stuff happened recently, we go deep into the challenges of parenting teen girls compared to teen boys: trust, Dinner Table honesty, cameras, and how we did everything they did too. Dagon Produce Chef's Basket Winner: Cha Matthews TableTopics Question: How do we want our marriage to be different than our parents'?...
#BlackLivesMatter - Salisbury Steak - Cold Cucumber Dill Soup - Black Eyed Peas - Portland v. Portlandia - Poblano Pepper Soup The murder of George Floyd and the #BlackLivesMatter movement have dominated our Dinner Table Talks this week (as we assume they have at your table, too). Unanswered Questions: When did Portland, OR, become Portlandia? TableTopics Question: How do you like to be cared for when you're sick?
Osso Bucco, Roasted Okra, Mashed Potatoes and Espagnole Sauce - Paté - Charcuterie - Pokiyaki Poke Bowls - Leftover Roast Tacos Joe satisfied the Five Mother Sauce Challenge with an espagnole-based gravy for mashed potatoes that were the bed of a delicious osso bucco. That meal is the centerpiece of a food-heavy Dinner Table Talks. We dine out, we create a charcuterie and eat some leftovers. And bring all the stories to you. Unanswered Questions: --Where did Tonya Harding grow up and was there a...
Pisto - Spaghetti Tacos - Sauce Challenge Excuses - Zucchini Boat Revolt - The Film: The Film There's just not enough time in the week for Joe's 5 Mother Sauce Challenge, but there's plenty of Dinner Table to talk about from Aislynn cooking (!) pisto to the girls cooking spaghetti tacos. We're plenty passive-aggressive about the kids making movies about the dirty kitchen floor rather than actually cleaning it and Savannah joins us for Table Topics. Giving away a Dagon Produce Chef's Basket, Unan...
Eggs Benedict - Mother Sauces: Hollandaise - Mother's Day Seafood Boil - Going to the Beach - Beach Lodge - Snoopy's Pier A jam-packed Mother's Day weekend created the opportunity for Dinner Table Talks across South Texas. From a girls' trip to the beach and Port Aransas to dinner out with the family to an incredible Mother's Day seafood boil, we enjoyed all the kids home together. Joe also details the next Mother Sauce, hollandaise, with eggs benedict. Unanswered Questions: What is the deal wit...
Teriyaki Beef - Beef Squash Casserole - School During Covid-19 - Grackle Takedown - Noisy Toads - Bow Chicka Wow Wow x 2 Just when you thought life was done shifting, Aislynn reveals some big career changes. We discuss her big news and then get rolling into a super-fun Dinner Table Talk. From 70s porn music to being poor to taking meals in and out of the rotation, no stone is left uncovered.
Moroccan Chicken - Joe's Dad - Friends Deliver Food - Harvey the Chicken - Texas 'Reopens' - The 5 Mother Sauces Challenge As Texas 'reopens' during Coronavirus, tragedy hits our house...twice. Joe talks about the passing of his father while the top story in Backyard TV is the passing of Harvey, our favorite chicken. We find plenty of silver linings around the Dinner Table with an amazing Moroccan Chicken, a feast delivered by amazing friends and Joe's self-challenge to cook each of the five 'Mo...
King Ranch Chicken - Delivered Filipino Food - Joe Cooking is Sexy - Zoom Meetings at Home - Neighbor Ribs - Corona Hair - TableTopics Giveaways A week after being told that The Dinner Table was slipping in terms of quality, Joe fires back with a homemade, from-scratch King Ranch Chicken. From scratch! That means homemade cream of chicken soup. But we will still use Ro-Tel. From how corona is messing with our hair to Aislynn picking on Joe (again!), we're holding strong at home and you're invite...
Meat Loaf - Mac and Cheese - Fast Food - Taqueria Take Out II - Backyard TV - Who's Bored? - Neighborhood Grocery Stores - Win a Dagon Produce Chef Basket simply by listening to your favorite podcast! Are we cracking up a bit during all this 'stay-at-home' stress? Joe's cooking less and we talk about how that blank is being filled in; Aislynn's making friends with all the backyard animals; Joe and Aislynn talk about their aversion to the grocery store; Aislynn has heartburn; The kids join us on ...
Squash Blossom/Arugula Pizza - Fry Night: Fried Steak Fingers, Chevre-Stuffed Squash Blossoms, Eggplant, Onion - Our Backyard as a Nature Sanctuary - Joe's Chicken Video Big hits on The Table as our stay-at-home continues including Aislynn's squash blossoms prepared two ways. One on a pizza and the other...FRY NIGHT! Joe gets his fry on and fries everything in the house. We reflect on one more week's education about Corona, how we continue to deal and how The Dinner Table is more important than ...
Roasted Tomato Basil Soup - The Era of No Hair Stylists or Pedicures - Instant Pot Pot Roast - Village Parenting Teens - Bellino Take Out Three weeks into a corona stay-at-home, we're eating well, talking a lot, spending time on screens, gardening and cooking. We get our first take-out after the 'stay-at-home order and a surprise video call from the chef, Aislynn's a tomato-ripening master, Joe does not cross dress and so much more. Pull up a chair. Dinner is ready.
Swiss Chard Rolls - Quesadillas - Fritatta - Fun and Games During a Stay-at-Home - Corona Talk Two weeks into a stay-at-home, everything is shifting: parenting, menus, work and leisure time. We talk about how we're thinking, what we're doing, what we're eating and what we're talking about as the effects of corona continue to spread.
Wild Pork Ribs - Creamed Spinach and Greens - Pork Tacos - Trading Brussels Sprouts - Chicken Cauliflower Korma - Processing and Social Distancing Joe and Aislynn have a bullet point script that does not include the words "corona" or "covid." We knew we couldn't avoid the topic--it's the chief topic of Dinner Table Talks at our house and yours--but the rule was, "Talk about what feels good." We discuss how and what we're processing, how we're passing time, what we're growing and cooking, trading...
Fish Fry - Baba Ganoush - Backyard Varmints - Pet Dreams - Our First Thoughts on The Coronavirus After recording this episode, the news about COVID-19 ramped up and we had to shift things up. We talk about our initial thoughts and how it will affect the show.
Chicken Arugula Salad - Dill Mashed Potatoes/Turnips - Lunch Leftovers - Coffee Addiction Aislynn heads home for lunch leftovers and uses them to detail the amazing food we've been eating. From a new salad dressing recipe to turnips in the mashed potatoes, meals are the launchpad for Dinner Table Talks about tasting colors, coffee addictions, sour candy, procrastination and so much more. TableTopics question: How are you like your mother? Unanswered Questions: Fish sauce/fermentation; Mollejas a...
Boutique Oysters - Valentine's Sushi - Kitchen Fails - Teen Girls Invade TableTopics A grand opening and a grand reopening took us out to two great Dinner Table Talks. Our favorite oyster bar gets an overhaul with new oyster offerings from around the country. Our favorite sushi team opens their new restaurant just in time for Valentine's Day. We eat and talk both along with classic kitchen fails and Lillian's first time to the mic....and she brings friends. Throw in two....no make that three...U...
Filipino Kamayan Feast - Food Trucks - Pancit - Tortang Talong - Bad Day/Good Day/Great Day Joe and Aislynn are joined by D'Lish Food's Nicole Kindzirsky & Edita Fuentes the day after a shared Kamayan Feast. We detail the full bounty of their beautiful spread while talking family, food trucks and eggplant omelettes.
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 Aislynn’s tripas challenge, her involvement in a very local foodie panel, and weigh in on the post-halft...
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, Ian's ratatouille, charcuterie as one's jam, sharpening knives, letting loose with movie talk, restaur...
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 shells, offal, Testicle Festivals, challenging Aislynn to eat intestines, not eating intestines, Russ...
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, charcuterie, adding ½ more of a meat and cheese plate, saving things for the podcast, always ordering Brus...
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 our daughters cry, not wanting to cook on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day 2019’s feast, the return of t...
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 tartare, Lime-ing all the way home, pedestrian safety, quick trips to San Antonio, smashed potatoes, be...
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 touches that make a restaurant amazing, antipasto up and down the table, special Corvina, learning car...
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 requests, grain-free pumpkin treats, a bidet revisit, green potatoes, sazeracs, Joe Cottens, great margaritas, ...
