Satisfying things

Turning no longer usable food into seriously decadent food, i.e. bread pudding.

Preheat oven to 350 F

Take 1/2 small loaf of apricot-almond loaf, stale
1/3 small loaf of oatmeal sourdough, stale
or roughly 2 C of any good bread which has gone stale

Cut (hack, bash, rip) all bread into smallish chunks and put it in a deepish 9x9 baking dish

add:

a handful of raisins (optional)
two overripe bananas, cut small (optional, obviously, but I had them)
cinnamon
nutmeg

crack four eggs over mixture.
Pour roughly 3/4 C milk over mixture.

add 2 capsful vanilla

Mix everything roughly with a fork.

Bake for 30 minutes, then add

1/2 C brown sugar, sprinkled overtop
large dollop salted butter, placed in centre.

and bake for 15 minutes more.

Put the kettle on while it cools.

ETA: if you have also half a loaf of Very Stale French Bread, you can:

Slice it very thin
Butter the pieces
Salt and pepper them (other spices as desired)
And toss them into the same 350 oven beside the bread pudding.

Then you will also have crackers.