We have big news wedged between two great dinners, and both of the dinners are about using the food you have: Za'atar Garlic Spinach Pasta with Chicken Meatballs and Mutton Curry. Hear all the exquisite details. The dog steals some sausage, we look for Ukrainian listeners, find ourselves on YouTube, give away $100,000, and are going to have dinner. You're invited. DM us to save your spot. Unanswered Questions: Do we have Ukrainian listeners? What is ring/Spagettio's shaped pasta called? Unanswer...
Mar 28, 2022•34 min
By 'stinker,' yes, we mean a fart. Farts and burps make an appearance on this week's Dinner Table Talks when a talk about kimchi moves into gut health and odorous flatulence. Joe calls on you to tell us how you prepare sausage, we dive deep into How Full is your Bucket with a couple unintended rabbit trails, Joe makes semi-fail Mushroom, Chicken & Spinach Enchiladas, Aislynn hosts a beautiful Long Lunch Club, Joe makes Quick Vegetable Ground Beef Soup, and we wrap it all up with a conversati...
Mar 21, 2022•43 min
Aislynn 'manipulates' Joe into making a soup. She admits it! Settle in at the Dinner Table after we talk Creamy Thai Sweet Potato Chicken Soup because things get meditative, we revisit C'mon C'mon, Aislynn plants wildflowers along our road, Joe asks if he should run on this road, we discuss pre-packaged garlic and ginger, and AIslynn tells her kids the truth. The Dinner Table Talk this week is all about meditation. Joe needs to get back into it and Aislynn delivers a little expertise. Unanswered...
Mar 14, 2022•47 min
It's crawfish season which means it's time for our (now) annual crawfish boil episode. The main difference this year? We live at the farm and that makes this year's boil so much easier. The food, the vibe, the friends and family...you hear every detail. Aislynn's built a new garden right in our backyard and fills you in on every step. Our conversation/disagreement on horror continues, gets deep and finally agree to disagree (we think). An abundance of mushrooms leads to chunky mushroom and celer...
Mar 07, 2022•57 min•Season 3Ep. 23
We throw a farm-to-table dinner with our favorite local chef and tell you ALLLL about it. From Bellino's Chef Francesco's Insalata del Giardino to the Vou Le Vent con Marmalatta, we eat big and give you every detail. A catch-up on Joe's greatest kitchen hits since we returned from Hot Springs, an update on the warring rooster, and Joe's top 5 films of 2021 that elicits a conversation about disturbing movies that is just the beginning. Beef and Sweet Potato Stew, Smashed Potatoes, Pulled Pork San...
Feb 28, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Part 2 of our Arkansas road trip takes us to the Ozark Mountains for hiking and seclusion. We are in the middle of nowhere at the best Airbnb you can imagine, forget our picnic basket, mining for crystals, going off-road, visiting the Glory Hole, getting topless at Hawksbill Crag, and heading home. Unanswered Questions: How is moonshine made? Gluten in spirits. What is the difference between tequila and mezcal? Is Belize safe for travel? What is about a 10-hour drive away from home for another r...
Feb 21, 2022•54 min
Well, we're home after the perfect road trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the Arkansas Ozarks. We leave no stone unturned as we recount the first half of our trip. The packing, the dog, the drive, hotel earplugs, anxious kids, the perfect AirBnB, the FULL(y naked) bathhouse experience, hiking the Hot Springs National Park, moonshine, mezcal and so much more.
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 24
In podcast life, we are GOING on a trip. In real life, we just got back. So before we left we recorded this short no-frills, two-recipe episode. Aislynn figures out that Joe would love for her to cook from time to time and makes a big, cook-it-all-day pot of chili. Joe comments that you don't put beans in chili...which sends us off on a conversation about 'life rules.' Joe made a big pot of black-eyed peas and homemade cornbread. We tell you all the details of both recipes. Since we're (fake) ab...
Feb 07, 2022•25 min•Season 3Ep. 23
We vowed to not pursue rabbit trails prior to recording this episode. It didn't work. Aislynn details her latest Long Lunch Club that featured recently-harvested sweet potatoes...tacos and chocolate cake with sweet potatoes as the base.
Jan 31, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 22
In a huge anomaly, Joe and Aislynn enjoy a Domino's Pizza (gluten-free!) and launch into chain restaurant quality. Add a scotch tasting to the evening, and our lips really loosen up. We've booked our time at a Hot Springs bathhouse and lay out what exactly will happen, listen to La Vie en Rose, talk about the impending apocalypse where the internet doesn't work, remove all shame about using YoutTube to learn anything, make a little Chinese food, debone a chicken and, generally, have a lot of fun...
Jan 24, 2022•43 min
We put up our very first 'Four Meal Episode' this week, the highlight being a GF chicken pot pie that comes out wonderfully. Aislynn insists, though, that we recap how Joe does tacos and fried rice since it's the season to use all the vegetables in play and those two dishes do a great job. We wholeheartedly suggest that you watch the movie Pig, you help us name a chicken, Aislynn talks Long Lunch Club, Garden Healing, and all the great goings-on at The Farm. Random Question Of The Week: What's o...
Jan 17, 2022•42 min
We've talked about a ton of egg dishes on the show, but Joe wanted to try something completely new and found a Vegetarian Breakfast Strata. This 'frittata with stale bread' turned out to be a perfect 'trash can meal' where you can stuff it with ALLLLL the produce in the house. It froze since our last time together and we talk about the effects, we merge our two chicken flocks, and shoot off fireworks for New Year's Eve. We're headed to Hot Springs, Arkansas, for a much-needed week away and talk ...
Jan 10, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 19
We talk about our 'Christmas Week' filled get-togethers, gifts, all the kids, meals, and Licorice Pizza. Aislynn held another Long Lunch Club where Joe makes Russian Green Chicken Soup and Aislynn visits the farmers' markets that she created as a customer. Random Question of the Week: If you were in a circus, which character would you be?
Jan 03, 2022•49 min
In a follow-up to last week's intense conversation, we start talking about how to do the work. Add that to a week filled with holiday busyness! Unanswered Question: How do you do the work? Random Question of the Week: If you never had to eat one vegetable, which would it be?
Dec 27, 2021•55 min
Aislynn and Joe open up about some recent, deep relationship conversations this week at The Dinner Table. Things have been a little intense as we ask ourselves, is the way we've always done it good enough? We revisit our position on being food snobs, talk Garden Healing, revisit last week's stew, and Joe cooks a delicious chicken cacciatore. A jam-packed, first-of-its-kind Dinner Table! Unanswered Questions: At-home allergy test follow up Why is Greek Yogurt healthier than normal yogurt? Were ho...
Dec 20, 2021•51 min•Season 3Ep. 16
A Dinner Table Talks first! Cooking during the show. The cold weather got Joe jonesing for a beef stew so Aislynn gave him a big pile of produce to go in it. While the stew cooks, we talk about a bunch of women getting everything they want, rooster kites and windmills, eating out in Port Aransas (Grumbles) and Minecraft, Minecraft, Minecraft. Plus Aislynn can't remember anything about A Bugs Life. Unanswered Questions: What about legit at home allergy tests? What is sour cream? From one - 7.9 bi...
Dec 13, 2021•31 min•Season 3Ep. 15
We start with our Christmas tree traditions and end with how creative expansion is blowing up the world's systems. Yep, it was quite a night around the Dinner Table. Add in an unexpected guest and we're recording during 'the nightcap period' of the night where Aislynn can 'say anything.' And she says plenty! Unanswered Questions What exactly is a mochi ice cream ball? Why do apples make your tongue itch? Random Question of the Week: What childhood toy was the most meaningful?...
Dec 06, 2021•36 min•Season 3Ep. 14
We run through our amazing Thanksgiving week from start to finish including all the food we prepared and a challenge to create your very best Thanksgiving traditions by simply being you. Joe's buttermilk pie was a complete failure, we give a full report on our successful Farm Movie Night, Aislynn still serves the green to help the brown, and we make a delicious Roasted Poblano Chicken Soup. Unanswered Questions More about Menudo Farm Forage Update - Bocapa What movie candy did Joe buy for 'Movie...
Nov 29, 2021•40 min•Season 3Ep. 12
It's been an interesting week starting with a trip to San Antonio that didn't go according to any plan, into a HUGE Friendsgiving/housewarming party. A foodie event at our house with the best vibe, fire, music, friends and fun that you can imagine, and concluding with a CBD-infused multi-course dinner party from a great friend/chef. Did we mention the fast track to get rabbits? Did we mention getting 10 new chickens? Did we mention Aislynn's classes, that her onions came in, that she had a local...
Nov 22, 2021•57 min•Season 3Ep. 12
An escaping dog, a new robot vacuum cleaner, saying 'No,' and a chicken naming contest is just the beginning this week on a very introspective Dinner Table Talks. Aislynn's business is taking off and she's practicing NOvember while Joe has an emotional awakening at a funeral. We revisit how we want to be dealt with when we go one year after Aislynn said, 'I want you to dig me a hole and set me on fire," and that's when Joe put together the relationship with his father's memorial service and a fu...
Nov 15, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Our move to the farm is complete after a marathon garage sale at the old house. Aislynn's pressure release valve goes off after her latest Long Lunch Club and the food was incredible. Tack on a visit to a new sushi restaurant, our thoughts on life since the 2020 election, gray in Joe's beard and being just in time for the chicken sex, and you've got some Dinner Table Talks for the ages.
Nov 08, 2021•46 min
It was Test Kitchen night for Aislynn's upcoming Long Lunch Club event and 'What a treat!' We talk about social media and the 'bitchery' that consumes most of it these days. Our first trip to a local Chinese restaurant blew our minds with the yellow pages-sized menu (with an 'American Chinese Food' section that made us laugh. Fainting goats, the history of Doritos, food as medicine and SO MUCH MORE!!! Pull up a chair; we have a lot to talk about.
Nov 01, 2021•54 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Aislynn says a thing at the very beginning and Joe gets defensive. THEN Joe loops back around to investigate that thing again. And that's just the start of a jam-packed Dinner Table Talk that includes another flood, pho, Aislynn's memories of 4-H Club, an overcooked pork leg, breaks in the food supply chain, a fall vegetable ratatouille and so much more!
Oct 25, 2021•48 min
We're leaning in, y'all! Our lifestyle is the show so forget ever hearing us justify talking about chickens (or anything else) ever again! Of course we're talking chickens...when we're kind of chicken house right now. Where are our eggplants? Why aren't there enough ribs to share? Why is Aislynn cooking more often? These are lifestyle questions and we answer them all along with pho straight from heaven, the movies that make us cry, selling tea and so much more. Pull up a chair! We have a lot to ...
Oct 18, 2021•36 min
What a weird episode! Aislynn throws Joe off of his Yellow Curry talk by being honest about the Curry Challenge (or Curry Journey) thus far. Joe details the yellow curry prep, but they have a frank conversation about where this journey should go. Aislynn returns to the Farmers' Market she created to sell her produce and talks about the 'full circle' of it all.
Oct 11, 2021•44 min
Aislynn called Joe and gave him an earful...about seeds, Home Depot, and low-cost access to healthy, nutritious food. Hear a good old-fashioned Aislynn tirade. Nana made two meals, Joe remade Panang Curry for Aislynn's first Long Lunch Club, we pick up Vegetable Curry in Indian take out, the girls steal ice cream and we talk scary movies. Pull up a chair! We have a lot to talk about.
Oct 04, 2021•54 min
Changes continue in our new life on the farm, but the great meals never stop. Pork Chops with Leeks in Mustard Sauce and Mourning Dove Stew were on the menu this week along with a chicken plan, new daily schedules, a new recording time, and double dongs. Unanswered Questions: Do ground Mustard and Mustard seed taste different? What was the 90s term for when a thong is above the pant waist line? What does BKK use for their fry dip? Random Question O' The Week: What is the weirdest dream you ever ...
Sep 27, 2021•38 min
A super-sized, long and winding road awaits you this week at The Dinner Table! Moving is a transition, and we work through some of the transitions we're all going through while reflecting on the 'new' of the farm. The Curry Challenge continues with Crispy Curry Chicken Wings and Curry Fries which may have underwhelmed just because the kitchen is new and Joe's...well...transitioning into the new kitchen. We collected our chickens from the old house, lose one for a day, and then get a new rooster:...
Sep 20, 2021•57 min•Season 3Ep. 3
What a week! We moved to the farm (It's official)! We start a new food challenge! We settle in with our new neighbors (Aislynn's folks)! But through it all, we learn a ton and EAT GREAT FOOD! We discuss the move, the new place, settling in, Joe's declarative statements, Aislynn's new routine, socks on the doorknob, our two new Dinner Tables, and making a Panang Curry. Oh...AND alligator curry!! Unanswered Questions: What are 'sulfiting agents'? Curry plant v. curry spice Random Question of the W...
Sep 13, 2021•48 min
The first episode of season three finds Joe and Aislynn in the middle of their move out to the farm on the heels of a 'sanctuary violating' event that tests the table. One year after Aislynn wrote her 'My Garden is a Sanctuary' speech for TedX, she shares her thoughts on the how the thoughts have evolved and plans for the gardens at the farm. Joe promises that the first meal at the new house will be a curry as The Curry Challege begins. Unanswered Questions: What is exactly in pumpkin pie spice ...
Sep 06, 2021•40 min•Season 3Ep. 1
