“I’m your Huckleberry, that’s just my game.”

— Doc Holliday, Tombstone

In the Old West “I’m your huckleberry” was an idiom equivalent to saying “I’m your man” or “I’m the man for the job”. It meant you were game, that you were up for the challenge.

”I am your Huckleberry” was also the most famous movie line from the classic Western movie “Tombstone” (1993) delivered so flawlessly by the iconic actor Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday.

The term “huckleberry” is also a literary term made famous by Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn character.

Huckleberry as a fruit remains an enigma to most people ‘till they move to Montana and find huckleberry coffee, huckleberry chocolate, huckleberry ice cream, huckleberry pie, huckleberry jam, huckleberry this, huckleberry that. Suffice it to say this fruit is a big deal around here because it’s a uniquely delicious berry that we are proud of significantly.
From the Ericaceae family, specific to the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, particularly in Montana, huckleberries look much like blueberries, round and much smaller in size, range in color from red to blue to black, have a subtle mildly sweet and tart flavor and are found only in the wild. They could also be “your r huckleberry” for cooking a fun summery, juicy, fruity pork tenderloin, because “that’s just their game.”

Pork tenderloin, from the pork loin, is as lean as skinless chicken breast, very tender, mild-tasting, and can take on any fun flavor or a combination of flavors you wish and perfectly display your culinary craft. In today’s cooking, we will be wrapping the pork with bacon, because we live in the United States of Bacon. Bacon, cooked strips from a pig’s underbelly, is delicious, addictive, and has been merited as the most likely food to convince vegetarians to eat meat.

Bring together the huckleberries, pork tenderloin, and bacon and you’d have Mountain Man, Radd’s original, creative, and exceptionally scrumptious Bacon-Wrapped Smoked Pork Tenderloin Stuffed with Huckleberries and Mangoes. If that bold flavor combo wasn’t wild enough, the entire dish is glazed with a spicy pomegranate molasses bbq sauce and smoked to impart a smoky flavor to our fruity sweet, tangy, savory, very tender with a satisfying bite of well-orchestrated flavor symphony in your mouth.