Bacon & Egg Breakfast Bake

A make-ahead breakfast strata, with bacon 'n' eggs, plus healthy spinach too! A friend has me thinking about breakfast. Not the hurry-up breakfasts that mark our every-day work and school lives but instead, the leisurely weekend breakfasts that open with mugs of steaming coffee and linger on around a big table. The breakfasts that follow early church for the faithful and extra-long runs for the faithful exercisers. The breakfasts where how many chairs are filled changes as the kids finish to play outside and grandfather excuses himself for an early Sunday afternoon nap. The breakfasts that can be prepared with little fuss, like with this make-ahead BACON & EGG BREAKFAST BAKE, a sort of bacon ‘n’ eggs for a crowd. BACON CHUNKS When bacon is on sale, buy a pound or two for “bacon chunks”, small pieces fried slowly, removing the fat but intensifying the flavor. First, slice the entire slab crosswise in about one-inch pieces with a serrated knife. Cook