Dinner Table Talks

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 funeral he attended this week. We are on a solar cycle of repeating behaviors!

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. 

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!!!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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: Nimrod! Then it's rabbit holes all over the place with journeys into setting new energetic standards, posters on the wall, dress code inequality, wonderful memories of a dairy farm visit, collecting materials to build greenhouses, Joe's first visit to his new grocery store, and just about everything else.

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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!!

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