Bread

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Most of my left over bread gets frozen then when I have enough (we don't really eat bread much) I make a big spicy bread pudding. Eaten warm for pudding or room temp with a cup of tea. Can be frozen in pieces then defrosted when you want it, handy for visitors (so long as they are no gluten free of course),

Croutons. Breadcrumbs. French toast. Summer pudding

I do a crustless pie. It's mince with onions, tomato puree, garlic puree, broccoli stalks or other cabbagey stuff chopped small, lentils, etc, etc, and some dried, frozen or leftover bits of bread mixed in.
On top of that goes cheese sauce then bake the lot.

The South African recipe Bobotie (similar to above) uses bread too but its topping is a savoury egg and milk mixture.

If it’s good ciabatta or similar panzanella (bread salad) is delicious.

I make and freeze breadcrumbs for use as a coating or a crunchy topping for dishes such as macaroni cheese, fish pie or cottage pie. With or without grated cheese and a spray of oil it browns quickly.
Another use is bread sauce for serving with poultry. I add some softened chopped onion, milk, a knob of butter and seasoning.

Breadcrumbs
Bread pudding
Bread & butter pudding
Summer pudding.

Sliced white bread is used in making Summer Pudding - the removed crusts make perfect bread crumbs for other dishes too.

I far prefer the crust of the bread to the centre so I never have leftover crusts .
If I did , I'd make a batch of breadcrumbs for fish or chicken and make a bread and butter pudding perhaps adding chopped dried apricots to the crusts and flaked almonds on top .

My husband loved bread pudding, especially with some custard! There’s also a fruit pudding with bread crumbs but I can’t remember what it’s called….Eve’s pudding?

Most of my leftover bread gets dumped in the food processor to make breadcrumbs. I tend to do it before I freeze but I'm sure you could do it when defrosted. I then use it to coat bits of chicken or fish to make goujons. I also sometimes make bread, butter and marmalade pudding for my husband. I also like a Spanish dessert which is a bit like creme caramel but with breadcrumbs in it. I think it is called "Pudden" or "Puddin".