This is the Italian version of the old favourite, with the same principle of using left over bread. Soak bread in milk for 1 hour to soften. Pour excess milk into a bowl and stir until a course puree.

This is quite a soft pudding, not too dense, perfumed with citrus and fennel, full of dried figs and sultanas, and it is to be washed down with a glass of sweet wine, such as Marsala. Credit: Hardie ...

This savoury bread pudding is rich with mushrooms, leeks, proscuitto and Italian-style cheese. I routinely get recipe or column requests from Times Colonist readers and they can really vary. Recently, ...

Everyone needs a good breakfast on Christmas morning and this is my go-to treat! I absolutely love panettone, a sweet bread with roots in Milan that's studded with dried fruits and candied ginger, to ...

Although Torta di Pane translates as "bread cake," the round is really a baked bread pudding cake, which starts with a batter similar to bread pudding, without the milky quality. It bakes into a cake ...

Pudding for breakfast? Tick. A bread and butter pud that's really more a cake? Tick. Savoury version? Yep, bread and butter pudding really is a kitchen chameleon, giving old bread (or brioche, or ...