The FoodTalk Show 14 April 2016 - porter beer, tuna burger and ready meals

How to buy the perfect ready meal:

Hannah Macintyre of Home Cooked by Hannah is passionate about real home cooked food that she makes herself and delivers to her customers. She uses free range eggs, rare breed local sausages, and sources all meat, fish and vegetables from local producers. Trouble is, this all comes under the umbrella of 'ready meals' which has awful connotations of tasteless, salt-ridden, plastic packaged industrially produced garbage. We had a great debate about the role that really good ready meals might play, and ended up realising we need to come up with a new name to categorise what she does. 

We hate Heston - tuna burger:

Last week Alex made a vegan bean burger, so this week Sue Nelson talks us through her favourite burger recipe using a fresh thick slice of tuna. Great for the family and so much easier to cook than a beef burger. 

The FoodTalk detectives - craft beer:

James Hayward of The Caveman Brewery talked to us about the impending hop shortage, which is seriously hurting craft beer producers. Where are all the hop fields that used to cover Kent and why does James have to go abroad to get what he needs? We then did a bit of serious tasting of his Cave Dweller flagship porter - chocolate and coffee notes, with dark berry flavours in there too. Yum.