Dinner Table Talks

Dinner Table Talks

By Aislynn CampbellSociety & Culture
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Dinner Table Talks episodes

  • 2.13: Thanksgiving 2020 - I Need The Green To Help The Brown

    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

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    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 Sanctuary   

        Our Instagram | Facebook     

        Follow Aislynn on Youtube | Instagram | Facebook   

        The Elliott Homestead: Homemade Flavored Salts   

        Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar

        TableTopics is a game we've picked up along the way that is simply a box of questions designed to create conversation. After a few episodes, the good folks at Table Topics sent us several packs like 'What Would You Do?,' 'Love and Happiness,' 'Not Your Mom's Dinner Party' and more. 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/Closing music: "Sanderburry's Steamworks" Trey VanZandt (YouTube.com/c/treyvanzandt) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

        45 min
      • 2.12: Sticky Asian Ribs/Turnip Mashed Potatoes - Not Both Hosts Share All Views

        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 

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        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 a hole and set my body on fire' and has a paper trail of research into whether or not it's doable. All these trips to San Antonio find Aislynn at Cured again, making Joe extremely jealous. 

        Unanswered Questions:

        • How was The Jewish Food Festival?
        • How legal is it to set a corpse on fire on your own property?

          • TableTopics Question:

          • When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public?

            • Links/Recipes: 

            • Aislynn's TEDx Speech, My Garden is a Sanctuary  
            • Our Instagram | Facebook    
            • Follow Aislynn on Youtube | Instagram | Facebook   
            • Sticky Asian Ribs
            • Cured 
            • Turkish-Style Beef and Eggplant Stew
            • The Elliott Homestead: Homemade Flavored Salts  
            • Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar

              • TableTopics is a game we've picked up along the way that is simply a box of questions designed to create conversation. After a few episodes, the good folks at Table Topics sent us several packs like 'What Would You Do?,' 'Love and Happiness,' 'Not Your Mom's Dinner Party' and more. 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/Closing music: "Sanderburry's Steamworks" Trey VanZandt (YouTube.com/c/treyvanzandt) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

              45 min
            • 2.11: Poblano/Kale Breakfast Tacos - I Want You To Dig A Hole And Set Me On Fire

              Breakfast For Dinner: Poblano/Kale Breakfast Tacos - Joe's Dad's Memorial Service - Greek Festival Report - Jewish Food Festival Preview

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              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 that have been sitting on the back burner since his father's death in April, the delays and his PowerPoint assignment that really drives home the circle of life. We're recording this week's episode between two of our city's best food event weekends...while doing a sugar fast and eating grain-free, so pardon us while we vent a little. 

              Unanswered Questions:

              • The origin of asparagus and Brussels sprouts
              • Memories of California Agriculture/Gardening Zones

                • TableTopics Question:

                • What's your favorite summertime activity?

                  • Links/Recipes: 

                  • Aislynn's TEDx Speech, My Garden is a Sanctuary 
                  • Our Instagram | Facebook   
                  • Follow Aislynn on Youtube | Instagram | Facebook   
                  • Fathead Pizza Dough Grilled Eggplant Pizza 
                  • The Elliott Homestead: Homemade Flavored Salts 
                  • King's Inn  
                  • Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar

                    • TableTopics is a game we've picked up along the way that is simply a box of questions designed to create conversation. After a few episodes, the good folks at Table Topics sent us several packs like 'What Would You Do?,' 'Love and Happiness,' 'Not Your Mom's Dinner Party' and more. 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/Closing music: "Sanderburry's Steamworks" Trey VanZandt (YouTube.com/c/treyvanzandt) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

                    41 min
                  • 2.10: Grilled Eggplant Pizza - We're In The Middle of a Challenge

                    Grilled Eggplant Pizza - The Day After The Election - Aislynn's TedX Talk - Homemade Pizza Salt - "Who's OJ Simpson?" - Joe's Sugar Fast Update

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                    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 time. This dough will be back. We also detail our feelings one day after the election.

                    Unanswered Questions:

                    • Regional Sodas Cont.: TX's Big Red
                    • Goat Meat and Industrialization
                    • Asparagus Pee Part II

                      • TableTopics Question:

                      • Would you eat only rice and vegetables the rest of your life if it meant not one person would go hungry?

                        • Links/Recipes: 

                        • Aislynn's TEDx Speech, My Garden is a Sanctuary
                        • Our Instagram | Facebook  
                        • Follow Aislynn on Youtube | Instagram | Facebook  
                        • Fathead Pizza Dough
                        • Grilled Eggplant Pizza
                        • The Elliott Homestead: Homemade Flavored Salts
                        • King's Inn 
                        • Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar

                          • TableTopics is a game we've picked up along the way that is simply a box of questions designed to create conversation. After a few episodes, the good folks at Table Topics sent us several packs like 'What Would You Do?,' 'Love and Happiness,' 'Not Your Mom's Dinner Party' and more. 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/Closing music: "Sanderburry's Steamworks" Trey VanZandt (YouTube.com/c/treyvanzandt) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

                          51 min
                        • 2.9: The Best Pork Chops Ever - I Love That About America

                          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

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                          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 everything: How a dirty restroom in a swanky restaurant got us thinking about our city's self-esteem; regional sodas and fast food; the tightrope we walk between a global-reach show and our local roots; a look back at our first time getting Indian food together; flat sugar soda; nude Halloween moon dancing; buying goat to cook; and so much more.

                          Unanswered Questions:

                          • Presecco v. White Wine v. Champagne
                          • Yellow v. Sweet Onions
                          • How Nationwide is Schlotzsky's
                          • Masago/Maduro Solved

                            • TableTopics Question:

                            • If you could have three wishes, what would they be?

                              • Links/Recipes: 

                              • Our Instagram | Facebook 
                              • Follow Aislynn on Youtube | Instagram | Facebook 
                              • Goat Curry
                              • The Best Pork Chops Ever? 
                              • Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar

                                • TableTopics is a game we've picked up along the way that is simply a box of questions designed to create conversation. After a few episodes, the good folks at Table Topics sent us several packs like 'What Would You Do?,' 'Love and Happiness,' 'Not Your Mom's Dinner Party' and more. 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/Closing music: "Sanderburry's Steamworks" Trey VanZandt (YouTube.com/c/treyvanzandt) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License


                                43 min
                              • 2.8: Poke Bowls To Go - Have We Skinny-Dipped Together?

                                Poke Bowls To Go - Tromboncino Casserole - Headed to the Farm - Trading Cocktails for Flowers


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                                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, it's just Aislynn and Joe so take out was the way to go. Poke bowls from start to finish.

                                But the news of the day is that we're moving to the farm. How does everyone feel about it and what, exactly, does it mean? Screaming to loud music, construction and figuring out the grocery store situation and that's just the beginning.

                                Unanswered Questions:

                                • What's the difference between an onion and a shallot?
                                • What cooking oil should we use?

                                  • TableTopics Question:

                                  Listen for why there are two. We end up answering both.

                                  • How close have you come to getting caught in the act?
                                  • When was the last time you went skinny dipping?

                                    • Links/Recipes: 

                                    • Our Instagram | Facebook
                                    • Follow Aislynn on Youtube | Instagram | Facebook
                                    • Tromboncino Casserole - Joe just subbed (1:1) yellow squash with tromboncino
                                    • Support the Show: The Virtual Tip Jar

                                      • TableTopics is a game we've picked up along the way that is simply a box of questions designed to create conversation. After a few episodes, the good folks at Table Topics sent us several packs like 'What Would You Do?,' 'Love and Happiness,' 'Not Your Mom's Dinner Party' and more. 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/Closing music: "Sanderburry's Steamworks" Trey VanZandt (YouTube.com/c/treyvanzandt) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

                                      46 min
                                    • 2.7: Beefy Eggplant Parmesan - I Don't Even Know What You're Talking About

                                      Beefy Eggplant Parmesan - Daughters at The Dinner Table - Burgers and Fries - It's Just  Aislynn

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                                      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 girls. We talk our open door/open house policy. Aislynn harvests the first eggplant of the season and they go straight into a Beefy Eggplant Parmesan.

                                      Unanswered Questions

                                      • When does a hobby become a business?
                                      • The crust was a crêpe.
                                      • Community and successful business.

                                        • TableTopics Question:

                                        • What fear would you like to conquer?

                                          • Links/Recipes: 

                                          • Aislynn's 'It's Just Aislynn' Mayoral Ad
                                          • Beefy Chicken Parmesan

                                            • TableTopics is a game we've picked up along the way that is simply a box of questions designed to create conversation. After a few episodes, the good folks at Table Topics sent us several packs like 'What Would You Do?,' 'Love and Happiness,' 'Not Your Mom's Dinner Party' and more. 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/Closing music: "Sanderburry's Steamworks" Trey VanZandt (YouTube.com/c/treyvanzandt) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

                                            39 min
                                          • 2.6: Friends With Benefits - Francesco and Susan Inguaggiato

                                            Friends with Benefits IS BACK with The Italians: Francesco and Susan Inguaggiato, owners of Bellino Ristorante Italiano. Our favorite restaurant in town!

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                                            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 ingredients, and how COVID affected the restaurant business


                                            TableTopics Question:

                                            • If you were going to get fat on your favorite snack foods what would those be?

                                              • Links/Recipes: 

                                              • Bellino Ristorante Italiano
                                              • Aislynn's giving a speech at TEDxColePark on Oct. 17. Click here to register (free) to watch TEDxColePark wherever you are.

                                                • TableTopics is a game we've picked up along the way that is simply a box of questions designed to create conversation. After a few episodes, the good folks at Table Topics sent us several packs like 'What Would You Do?,' 'Love and Happiness,' 'Not Your Mom's Dinner Party' and more. 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/Closing music: "Sanderburry's Steamworks" Trey VanZandt (YouTube.com/c/treyvanzandt) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License


                                                56 min
                                              • 2.5: Long Distance Chicken Enchiladas - Milk and Marijuana

                                                Long Distance Chicken Enchiladas - The Pizza Crust Challenge Begins - DTT Ethics Council Meeting - Crushed Red Pepper - Planning The Oyster Boil

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                                                "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 home cooking: Salsa Verde Chicken Enchiladas. The Dinner Table Talks Ethics Council comes to order as Aislynn and Joe have a 'spirited debate' to choose the next entry. Another DTT Challenge begins when Joe dips his toe in grain-free pizza crusts. Egg yolk spectrum, too much pepper, having to repeat oneself and so much more.

                                                Unanswered Questions:

                                                • Aislynn's been getting questions about raw milk.
                                                • What's in an oyster shooter?


                                                  • TableTopics Question:

                                                  • Would you travel into space if you could?

                                                    • Links/Recipes: 

                                                    • Salsa Verde Chicken Enchiladas
                                                    • 3 Ingredient Paleo Keto Pizza Crust
                                                    • Aislynn's giving a speech at TEDxColePark on Oct. 17. Click here to register (free) to watch TEDxColePark wherever you are.

                                                      • TableTopics is a game we've picked up along the way that is simply a box of questions designed to create conversation. After a few episodes, the good folks at Table Topics sent us several packs like 'What Would You Do?,' 'Love and Happiness,' 'Not Your Mom's Dinner Party' and more. 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/Closing music: "Sanderburry's Steamworks" Trey VanZandt (YouTube.com/c/treyvanzandt) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

                                                      47 min
                                                    • 2.4: Steamed Oysters - I'm So Full of Joy Like a Child

                                                      Steamed Oysters - AIslynn's Trip to Charleston, SC - Raw Oysters - Lamb Pâté - Magnolia Plantation Tour - The Obstinate Daughter

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                                                      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 block or grated cheese?

                                                        • Backyard TV:

                                                        • Joe plant-sits for Aislynn while she's gone

                                                          • TableTopics Question:

                                                          • Would you repackage a gift in a  trendy store box to lead a friend to believe you'd purchased it there?

                                                            • Links/Recipes:

                                                            • The Obstinate Daughter
                                                            • Magnolia Plantation Tour
                                                            • The Charleston, SC Battery
                                                            • Aislynn's giving a speech at TEDxColePark on Oct. 17. Click here to register (free) to watch TEDxColePark wherever you are.

                                                              • TableTopics is a game we've picked up along the way that is simply a box of questions designed to create conversation. After a few episodes, the good folks at Table Topics sent us several packs like 'What Would You Do?,' 'Love and Happiness,' 'Not Your Mom's Dinner Party' and more. 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/Closing music: "Sanderburry's Steamworks" Trey VanZandt (YouTube.com/c/treyvanzandt) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

                                                              45 min

                                                            About Dinner Table Talks

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                                                            A lifestyle and foodie podcast that you're going to fall in love with. Join Aislynn and friends at the dinner table where we discuss farm life, love, healing, food, gardening and just about anything else. Nothing is off limits at the dinner table where we connect with our community, friends and family in philosophical and life-enriching conversation.