Cool Weather Panzanella with Apples and Hazelnuts. [Photograph: The Year in Food]

Last week on the Weekend Cook and Tell we asked all of you to share ideas for what to do with those leftover baguettes, ryes, boules, pullmans, and bollilos for a challenge we called Stale Bread Salvation. Our search for creative uses for leftover loaves covered everything from soups and salads to sweet and savory puddings. Let's take a look at some of our stale bread saviors.

Our resident bread baker dbcurrie always has more than her fair share of leftover bread. Take at look at this apple swirl French toast she made from the remnants of last week's apple butter swirl bread.

therealchiffonade gave us a seven-point game plan for tackling stale baguettes including garlic bread, bread pudding, breadcrumbs (especially good for meatballs), croutons, stuffing, and our personal favorite, French bread pizzas.

Panzanella is traditionally a summer salad but The Year in Food gave it cool weather flavors by subbing in apples, arugula, and hazelnuts.

Lili13's secret is an old family recipe for tomato pudding that mixes buttery cubes of stale bread with canned tomatoes, brown sugar, mustard, cloves, and cayenne. According to Lili13, this super rich side is best served in small portions alongside a roast or with a fried egg for breakfast.

Brown Sugar Scalloped Tomatoes. [Photograph: Rocquie]

Rocquie pairs her leftover slices with tomatoes as well, this time in the form of scalloped tomatoes caramelized and sweetened with a bit of brown sugar.

Plum Pie used slices of day-old baguette to create lovely boozy French toast spiked with orange-y Grand Marnier.

RobertaJ's preferred method of stale bread revamp is a savory bread pudding studded with sausage, fennel, onions, and garlic, and baked with a custardy mix of eggs, cream, butter, and cheese.

ElizabethS is saving up her ends for gazpacho season when they can be mixed into a cool, tomatoey soup finished with tart sherry vinegar.

Thanks to everyone who used up their leftover heals for this week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge. Be sure to head over to Talk and read about next week's challenge: Golden Gadgets.