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"If you're vocal about your love of food (like we are), you can pretty much count on your family and friends giving you food gifts for the holidays. There's no way around it, and why should there be? Getting food is great! Still, there can come a time when things get a bit ... out of hand: 11 fruitcakes, a half-dozen boxes of clementines, and enough panettone to feed the whole of Europe. \u00A0But don't panic; you can repurpose these gifts. With the right recipes and a little creativity, these excesses can become novel ingredients. A poem: When its appeal at last wears thin / just turn it into &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/sticky-bun-bread-pudding\"&gt;bread puddin&lt;/a&gt;'. (Or, if you're feeling more adventurous, put it in a panini press with some mild cheddar; the sweet and savory combination turns it into something new.) If your appetite for panettone doesn't go stale eventually, the panettone itself will. Do what one usually does with stale bread: make French toast. As our Test Kitchen has proclaimed, \"almost any spongy substance soaked in eggs, cooked on a buttered griddle, and covered in sugar &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; taste good.\" This is true, and since panettone is already so sweet, you can leave the sugar out. Try adapting this &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/sugar-crusted-french-toast-with-honeyed-apples\"&gt;sugar-crusted French toast with honeyed apples&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/caramelized-french-toast-with-cinnamon-and-berries\"&gt;caramelized French toast with cinnamon and berries&lt;/a&gt;, omitting the sweet stuff as you see fit. They're delicious, but box after box of them can be hard to handle, and you'll want to use them before they get moldy. Start with a &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/clementine-negroni\"&gt;clementine negroni&lt;/a&gt; or two, then get cooking: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/chicken-paillards-with-clementine-salsa\"&gt;chicken paillards with clementine salsa&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/halibut-with-clementine-gremolata\"&gt;halibut with clementine gremolata&lt;/a&gt; are good places to start. Three words: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/article/ice-cream-sandwiches\"&gt;ice cream sandwiches&lt;/a&gt;. Try them in this &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cranberry-pear-and-ginger-chutney\"&gt;cranberry, pear, and ginger chutney&lt;/a&gt;, or\u2014and we know you already knew this\u2014make a &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/spiced-pear-pie\"&gt;spiced-pear pie&lt;/a&gt; with them. These are perfect for a variety of desserts: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/chocolate-peppermint-bark-cookies\"&gt;chocolate peppermint bark&lt;/a&gt; uses them to nice effect, or you can warm them up in some &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/peppermint-hot-chocolate\"&gt;peppermint hot chocolate&lt;/a&gt;. For the true cane devotee, try &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/double-chocolate-peppermint-crunch-cookies\"&gt;double chocolate-peppermint crunch cookies&lt;/a&gt;."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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