using leftover bread

Ok, foodies, help me out here. :-)

I have most of a loaf of not-very-good challah left over. (Not my usual brand.) I often turn stray ends of challah into bread crumbs, but I've got plenty right now. I could make french toast or grilled cheese sandwiches, but that won't use most of it before it turns green and fuzzy.

I understand that "bread pudding" is a common answer to this dilemma. I can certainly hunt up recipes, but if any of you have particular favorites, that'd be better than choosing randomly among plausible-sounding Google results. :-) And if you've got other suggestions for using leftover bread that doesn't rate just being bread, I'd love to hear 'em. (I'm not planning to cook any whole birds in the next couple weeks.)

physical aspects of siddurim

It looks like Mishkan T'filah, the new siddur from the Reform movement, might actually come out before the moshiach comes. Someone asked on the worship mailing list how people feel about physical aspects of prayer books, such as hard-cover versus soft-cover. This made me think explicitly about things I implicitly react to.

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