Dinner Table Talks

Dinner Table Talks

By Aislynn CampbellSociety & Culture
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Dinner Table Talks episodes

  • 2.3: Mediterranean Feast - More Rare Than Medium

    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 all 'basic food eaters,' we do it our way with a beef-heavy week at The Dinner Table. Joe details how he makes a steak, ignores Aislynn's furrowed brow and Aislynn declares her love of baked potatoes. A DTT repeat: our homemade ranch dressing. Later, Aislynn cons Joe into making a Mediterranean feast with baba ganoush, basil hummus, and Greek steak salad.

    WIth teens around The Dinner Table often, sex is a topic that comes up from time to time. Nothing's off-limits at The Table and who better to equip the kids with the information they need? More females have experienced trauma than we, as a country, want to talk about and Aislynn leads us into a deep conversation about healing that trauma individually and as part of the universal collective that requires that healing. 

    Unanswered Questions:

    • What is the additive in shredded cheese that keeps it from caking?


      • TableTopics Question:

      • What is the biggest extravagance you've purchased for yourself?


        • Links/Recipes:

        • Greek Steak Salad
        • Baba Ganoush
        • Basil Hummus
        • Knolle Dairy Farm
        • 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

          42 min
        • 2.2: Chicken Noodle Soup - Bidi Bidi Dum Dum

          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 rest. Later in the week, Joe revisited the masala from S1E51 adding some butternut squash puree ("what would happen?"). What happened was a delicious marriage of excellent Indian flavors and local food. Selena comes up for the first time in the show in TableTopics.

          Freedom Harvest Island:

          • We revisit the FHI concept by hashing out some of the things that we weren't in agreement with last week leading to a DTT about masculine/feminine power, balance, and getting our bubbles united.

            • Unanswered Questions:

            • Brainstorming the UQ Stinger - Bird Calls
            • How did early man learn what to eat without dying or getting sick? Learned behavior and using our senses.
            • What do our college boys spend on food out when they're strapped for cash?

              • TableTopics Question (From the 'General' Pack):

              • What would you like to know about the future?

                • Links/Recipes:

                • The starting point for Joe's chicken noodle soup
                • The starting point for Joe's Masala
                • Chickpeas in the Instant Pot
                • Aislynn's giving a speech at TEDxColePark on Oct. 17. Click here to register (free) to watch TEDxColePark wherever you are. 
                • Dagon Produce, who delivers hand-crafted locally-grown food baskets right to your door. If you don't live near us, look into a similar service in your area.

                  • 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

                  48 min
                • 2.1: Long Distance Sausage - We Can Do Anything

                  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 and budgeting. Like the journey for a new Unanswered Question sound effect when Joe has no direction leading to a conversation about red light/green light/yellow light(?) coasters on the bedstand. Like Queen Aislynn choosing 150 people for a Fury Road-style hippie, peace-and-love commune. Like the all-new Dinner Table Talks Code of Ethics (if you want to emulate us). Like Friends with Benefits COMING SOON!

                  And we're just warming up. Thank you for listening as we launch a whole new season of Dinner Table Talks.

                  Unanswered Questions:

                  • How do you pronounce Garam Masala?
                  • What is mace (the spice)?

                    • Backyard TV:

                    • Aislynn's giving a speech at TEDxColePark about her backyard garden as a sanctuary.
                    • Baby plants and power-washing

                      • TableTopics Question (From the 'What Would You Do?' Pack):

                      • What would you do if you heard someone making homophobic comments to a gay couple in public?

                        • Links:

                        • Aislynn's giving a speech at TEDxColePark on Oct. 17. Click here to register (free) to watch TEDxColePark wherever you are.
                        • Dagon Produce, who delivers hand-crafted locally-grown food baskets right to your door. If you don't live near us, look into a similar service in your area.

                          • 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
                        • 1.52: Farm-Fresh Fried Chicken - Welcome to My World

                          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 keep, lose, or change? We discuss it all.

                          Unanswered Questions:

                          • What's in Garam Masala?
                          • How do you pronounce 'devolution'?
                          • What is the difference between morals and ethics?

                            • TableTopics Question (From the 'What Would You Do?' Pack):

                            • Where's the worst place you've had to relieve yourself?

                              • 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?'. We draw a random question from a random pack every week and we never see the question before we draw it on the show.

                              59 min
                            • 1.51: Bhindi Masala - Burst Open And Out Was The Butterfly

                              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 met with torturous, fragrant ease and joy. The okra was a little slimy (hate to say that since okra rules!) but that's fixable. This recipe is a must-try!  We spend a lot of time on the last Unanswered Question: "Aislynn, what's an Introverted Extrovert, and why are you one?" Aislynn gets real about being the weirdest person Joe's ever met, but the answer is riveting. Then Aislynn says that the squirrels in the backyard can have the local politics...she's got bigger bhindi to masala! Top it off with an amazing TableTopics discussion about WAP, (d)evolution and one-issue voters and you got yourself the best year-anniversary-eve podcast episode you've ever heard.

                              Unanswered Questions:

                              • Bouillon 101
                              • Is Pinterest Feminine?
                              • Aislynn, you're an 'Introverted Extrovert.' What does that mean?

                                • Backyard TV:

                                • Backyard Campaign Season - Nutty The Squirrel Canvases The Chicken Coop District

                                  • TableTopics Question (From the 'What Would You Do?' Pack): 

                                  • Are the world's ethics evolving or devolving?

                                    • Recipes:

                                    • Chicken Tikka Masala - (the base for our Bhindi Masala which means we added skillet-fried okra; make this with or without okra, but make it!)

                                      • 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?'. We draw a random question from a random pack every week and we never see the question before we draw it on the show.


                                      54 min
                                    • 1.50: Fajitas & Beans - Move Ninja-Like Through The Crackers

                                      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 the easy hack of herb drying, Joe is incensed by dog dooks, chocolate is melted in the bed, Joe talks to himself, Aislynn opens up about the introvert/extrovert tug-of-war, Joe goes nuts about chicken bouillon granules and the illuminated return of Backyard TV. And that's just the start.
                                      Pull up a chair. There's a lot to talk about.  

                                      Unanswered Questions:

                                      • Decline in Neighborhooding/How to Be a Good Neighbor
                                      • Aislynn's Dried Herbs
                                      • Someone has a pepper problem

                                        • Backyard TV:

                                        • Joe saw a Firefly

                                          • TableTopics Question:

                                          From the Love and Happiness pack

                                          • What are your best memories of courtship?

                                            • Links:

                                            The Pinto Bean Recipe that was our base
                                            The Picadillo Recipe that was our base
                                            The Texas Monthly firefly story
                                            The firefly article

                                            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 Love and Happiness. We draw a random question from a random pack every week and we never see the question before we draw it on the show.

                                            42 min
                                          • 1.49: Chicken Spaghetti - If It Annoys Us Then It Shouldn't Exist

                                            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. OH! and then there's an impromptu nibble on escargot. This dinner table is packed! Pull up a chair.

                                            Unanswered Questions:
                                            -Joe's Oreo Pig Fat story
                                            -What is the ecological purpose of the animals we'd throw off the ark?
                                            -No Octopus? We need a list!

                                            TableTopics Question:
                                            -Would you rather spend a week in jail or do two years of community service?

                                            48 min
                                          • 1.48: Seafood Chowder - Did Noah Enchant Two Roaches?

                                            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.

                                            Unanswered Questions:
                                            - Intermittent Fasting Deep Dive

                                            TableTopics Question:

                                            -If you were Noah, which animal would you leave off the boat?

                                            50 min
                                          • 1.47: Caprese Burgers - Mucus Is On My Mind

                                            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 accepts two challenges: making hand-made, grain-free pizza dough and a little kombucha. Oh, and we talk beer for a little bit with the Black is Beautiful craft beer initiative.

                                            Pull up a chair! There's a lot to talk about.

                                            Unanswered Questions:
                                            -What is a Ruminant?
                                            -ESP defined and revisted
                                            -You saw a ghost, Aislynn?

                                            TableTopics Question:
                                            -How do we want to spend our retirement?

                                            51 min
                                          • 1.46: Penne Alla Vodka - We Broke The Law

                                            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-building, the Food Master 2000 and so much more.

                                            Pull up a chair....dinner is served!

                                            Unanswered Questions:
                                            -Where all does rosemary grow?
                                            -What's in Barkeeper's Friend?
                                            -Marbleazation: Grass-Fed v. Grain-Fed Beef
                                            -Did Aislynn finish her July 4th Video

                                            TableTopics Question:
                                            -Do you believe in ESP?

                                            51 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.