For my first bread salad I used stale bread cubes, which was perfectly fine. But since becoming bread salad obsessed I've come up with the ultimate method: I toast the bread and then rub both sides of every slice with the cut side of a clove of garlic. This spreads a subtle but even garlic flavor throughout the salad. Add sun dried tomatoes to the recipe and I can't stop eating it. Even the next day when it's beyond soggy I keep going back to the fridge for one more cube of garlicky wet bread. Love it. When I'm not snagging a cube out of the fridge, my favorite things to eat Bread Salad with are scrambled eggs, steak and roasted chicken.