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Cooking with Tim – Killer Texas Chili

Kelly — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:53:22 +0000

Stay hungry my friends

It’s finally getting cold here in Texas. There is nothing that warms your innards and your soul more than a delicious bowl of chili. Traditional Texas chili has no beans in it. I’m not one to follow rules so like the honey badger, I’ll do what I want (and add beans). The protein used is entirely up to the cook. I used deer for this one, but occasionally I love a good sirloin chili too.

Ingredients:

2 (15.5 oz) cans of Chili Beans. NOT CHILI, Not chili and beans
1 (15.5 oz) can of kidney beans
2 (28oz) cans of DICED TOMATOES
2 small cans of diced green chilies (NOT jalapenos)
2’ish tablespoons of chili powder
1’ish tablespoon of liquid smoke
1’ish tablespoon of cumin
½ cup brown sugar
Add salt pepper, garlic salt to taste
Method

Combine everything into a crock-pot.

Cook on high for 30 minutes.

Dice 2 yellow onions, cut and fry until brown. Cook Garlic 2-4 cloves with onions.

If you use beef, deer, pork or lamb (cube/chunk), cook with some garlic salt and oil. Slightly undercook them (rare/medium rare).

Cover and cook everything together for about 1.5 hours on medium or 2 hours on low. 20 minutes before you are ready to eat, add a couple tablespoons of flour and stir it in.

Tim Kennedy Workout – 28 Nov

Kelly — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:06:58 +0000

Need to work off that Thanksgiving turkey that’s now firmly implanted in your love handles? Try this workout on for size.

45sec Treadmill run (10mph with 1% incline)
10 Handstand pushups
10 Kettlebell snatches (45lbs, each hand)
X3

1.5min Treadmill run (10mph with 1% incline)
20 Overhead press (45lbs bar)
20 Knees to elbows
X3

Time to beat 13:00
Middle of the pack 15:00
Last man 20:20

Cooking with Tim – Vodka Pasta Sauce

Kelly — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:53:13 +0000

If you know Tim Kennedy, you know two things – he likes to eat and he only drinks in his home. In this installment of Cooking with Tim (brought to you by Middle Easy.com), Tim does both. What an insanely efficient multi-tasker. He’s like the Swiss Army knife of MMA.

As I was finishing up my last workout of the day craving carbs, and salt I couldn’t help contemplating how I could make some traditional Italian recipes spicier and add more alcohol (two things I brood on almost as much as wishing the zombie apocalypse would begin). Just the fact that two of the ingredients are vodka, and prosciutto should be reason enough to try this.

Not everyone can put away 6000 calories in a day, and its even more challenging to make those 6k actually taste decent. I have been searching for a purpose to my life for years… The higher calling of creating recipes, punching people in the face, and shooting things have at last brought peace and tranquility to my life. Stay angry my friends.

Ingredients

1 cup vodka
1 tablespoon crushed red pepper
3 tablespoons olive oil
3/4 pound prosciutto, chopped
1 large clove garlic, minced
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
salt and pepper to taste
1 (16 ounce) can chopped tomatoes, with juice
1 (16 ounce) cans tomato sauce
1 cup heavy whipping cream

Method

In a small bowl, combine vodka and red pepper flakes. Set aside for 1 hour.

Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Sautee prosciutto, garlic, parsley, basil, salt and pepper until prosciutto and garlic are evenly brown.

Pour in vodka mixture, and simmer 10 minutes. Add tomatoes, and stir in with can of tomato sauce. Simmer 15 minutes. Stir in 1 cup heavy cream, and cook 4 minutes.

I put the sauce over gnocchi and sautéed chicken.

Read the full story here

Tim Kennedy Workout – 5 Nov

Kelly — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:37:24 +0000

The MET-CON

15 reps each:
Burpees
Dumbell Snatch (45lbs)
Plyo Push Up
Pull Ups

1 min run at 9.5mph

20 reps each:
Box Jump
Dumbell Press (45lbs)
Medicine Ball Sit Up Toss
Burpees

25 reps each:
Hanging Leg Raises
Kettlebell Floor Press (45lbs)
Scissor Jump

Run 1:30 at 8.5mph

30 reps each:
Push ups
Supine Rows
Get Ups

35 reps each:
Burpees
Medicine Ball Situp toss
Wall Ball
Dips

2min run at 8 mph

40 reps each:
Squat
Bench press (45lbs)
Bent over row (45lbs)

Just one time through.

Time to beat 21:48
Middle of the pack 25:30
Last man 29:51

No, that's not a hatchet wound. Those are my abs.

Tim Kennedy Workout – 24 October

Kelly — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:46:37 +0000

After a prolonged absence from the Rhino Den, UFC fighter Tim Kennedy is back with a new workout. Get you puke bags out.

2 minutes stationary row (for distance)
10 Handstand pushups
10 Knees to elbows
10 Burpees
Full recovery

Repeat once

If you don’t get 500m within those 2 minutes of the rower you have to double the reps on the rest of the exercises.

Tim Kennedy Workout – Labor Day Edition

Kelly — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:30:50 +0000

Time to work off that Labor Day barbeque

Round 1
250m Row (or 40 sec treadmill sprint max speed max elevation)
12 Pull-ups
12ea hand Dumbbell Snatches (55lbs)
X3

Round 2
250m Row (or 40 sec treadmill sprint max speed max elevation)
12 BB Bench press (185lbs)
12 BB Bent over rows
X3

Round 3
250m Row (or 40 sec treadmill sprint max speed max elevation)
12 KB swings (65lbs)
12 BB shrugs (225lbs)
X3

Time to beat 19:34
Middle of the pack 24:14
Last man 28:09

Tim Kennedy Workout – 8 August

Kelly — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:13:39 +0000

Following Tim’s win over Robbie Lawler at Strikeforce: Henderson vs Fedor, he felt the need to take time off. And by time off, we mean he immediately went to the gym.

For time:

100m Row
10 Medicine Ball slams
200M Row
10ea Medicine Ball Rotational toss
300m Row
10ea Medicine Ball shot puts
400 Row
10 Medicine Ball Chest pass
500m Row
10 Medicine Ball Overhead throws

Time to beat 11:10
Middle of the pack 14:02
Last man 16:53

Cooking with Tim Kennedy – Shrimp Ceviche

Kelly — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:23:29 +0000

From our friends at Middle Easy.com (full article here):

As we are cutting weight getting ready for a fight we limit our calories. This is a big issue with allot of fighters. They end up eating the same thing every night. Chicken one night, and fish the next get kind of boring.

Just because you have you loose 30lbs in a month doesn’t mean that you can’t do it with style. From BBQ chicken sandwiches, turkey bacon BLT’s, to Shrimp Ceviche a little bit of imagination can to a long way with a starving MMA fighter.

Ingredients:

1 pounds of uncooked shrimp
1 large red onion
3 medium tomatoes
2 fresh squeezed oranges
2 fresh squeezed lemons
2 fresh squeezed limes
3 tablespoons of ketchup
1 tablespoon horse radish
2 jalapenos
1/2 bushel of fresh chopped cilantro
1/2 cup of your favorite salsa
1 tablespoon garlic salt
Pepper to taste
Ingredients

Boil water with salt and pepper in a pan. After it boils, add shrimp. Let it boil for 3 minutes (or until shrimp becomes lightly red) and remove from heat, drain, and place shrimp in the refrigerator.

Mince the onion and jalapenos.

Cube the tomatoes into small squares.

In a large bowl, mix the onion, tomatoes, jalapenos, orange, lime and lemon juice, ketchup, horse radish cilantro, garlic salt and pepper. Once the shrimp has cooled, add shrimp and mix.

Let sit for about 30 minutes in the fridge

Serve with crackers, and cerveza (if you are not cutting). Use it as an appetizer, or eat it out of a bowl with a spoon.

Tim Kennedy Workout – June 27 2011

admin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:21:37 +0000

10ea KB Snatches (45lbs)

10ea MB Rotational toss (14lbs)
30meters Burpee Long Jump
30sec Ropes Gone Wuld
60meter Farmers Walk (100lbs DB)
X5

Time to beat 16:10
Middle of the pack 20:03
Last man 23:38

Tim Kennedy Workout – Kettlebell Hell

Kelly — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:30:06 +0000

Kettlebell Hell

Set a cone up every 10 yards for 100 yards.
Lunge between the cones and at every cone do:
5 Turkish get-ups (each hand)
10 Snatches (each hand)
With a 45 pound Kettlebell

Time to beat 18:34

Middle of the pack 23:42

Last man 27:10

It's not nearly as cool as it looks