Bacon Jam: mortar of the food pyramid

My wife told me about skillet food bacon jam last year before Thanksgiving (apparently it had been popping up on several of her regular blogs).  I thought it was a joke, then I saw it was serious, then I bought some...as a joke.  I thought it would make the perfect Christmas gift for one of my friends who considers bacon to be the mortar of the food pyramid.  It was the perfect gift (and she's now on her third jar...eating it straight with crackers), so I decided to try some myself.  It smells great and looks weird (ergo no photo of inside the jar), but all that doesn't matter because it tastes great.  Seriously.  We made some excellent bruschetta with bacon jam and ricotta a while back, and I just had my friends over for gourmet burgers, homemade sweet potato chips, and some arugula salad (to assuage the conscious - ha!).

I made the burgers with 2T Worcestershire sauce, 2T whole grain Dijon mustard, and a large pinch of sel gris per pound of 80/20 ground beef.  Then I added bacon jam, Dubliner Irish Cheddar, arugula, and some mayonnaise (I forgot to get tomatoes at Sprouts).  The chips are just thinly sliced sweet potatoes, canola oil, and kosher salt.  They are addictive, but I need to devise a better way of getting the oil off before I salt them; gravity is cardiovascularly insufficient!  It's not an everday meal, but it was nice treat so load that baby up with more bacon jam.