Well, bacon has great smokey flavor, maybe it has no place in italian cooking but let's face it, bacon tastes great even on bananas lol... no escaping that as a guilty pleasure, but tonite I tried one of Lidia's recipes, of course it failed because i only watched her do it, i didnt look at the recipe on her website, basically it was "italian home fries" where you use onions, pancetta, and boiled potatoes... for me, i over cooked the potatoes so when i tried to get them crispy in the pan basically it turned into great mashed potatoes, which is fine... had a T-Bone steak on the grill since it was on sale, and i tend to always eat meat on halloween -- something about charred animal flesh, the red meat and the red juices just bring out the vampire in me <-: