Toulouse Fare

So here’s how to cook one of my favourite Toulousain dishes – the cassoulet. In fact, it’s the sort of dish you can cook in a variety of ways. My attempt took two days!

Thanks to Foodwishes.com for that.

So on to the important matter of the Henieken Cup, and Toulouse offered up some fare of rugby. The thing that pleased me about this was listening to Stuart Barnes and Will Greenwood squirm. 14-0 at half-time, Barnes suggests that Toulouse would prefer to be heading to terminal 5. So I was delighted that within 8 minutes of play, Jauzion, Kelleher, Elissade et al had leveled the score to give us a game. Great stuff altogether, not to take anything away from Moyne’s great try and some great work from Evans and Brown. Unfortunately, it was a Moyne knock-on in his own twenty two, that gave Toulouse a late advantage, but he won Barne’s man of the match – not much of a consolation of losing out on the knock-out stages I would suggest. Toulouse 23 – Quins 19, this finished, with Barnes and go getting very excited that Quins could possibly grab a try with 10 seconds to go. Naaah.

Haven’t watched too many other games as yet – Ulster through away a good lead at Edinburgh – so they’ll need a result away to Stade Francais to have a cat’s chance. So I won’t be throwing the sterling I have left over in my wallet on that happening (although I wonder what odds I’d get?). Meanwhile, Munster given a bit of an early shock against Treviso, who ran in a couple of tries at fortress Thomond. We can’t really judge Munster this early, and I’m looking forward to a much stronger show come December. Leinster too got their win, but no bonus point away to Brive.

The Heineken Cup is already throwing up some great contests early on. I think it just grows and grows as a tournament. Hope to grab some of Bath v Stade Francais tomorrow.

On to soccer and shocked at Chelsea’s defeat at Villa – again I haven’t watched any of this yet. Liverpool losing to Sunderland is probably big news – three defeats for the pool, who now languish in eighth position. Something about a beach ball on the pitch? Bazaar. Man U top of the league – boring or what?