Aloe Vera With Red Dates Drink

Aloe Vera with Red Dates Drink

 My kids love this drink. You can call it herbal drink or even Tong Sui

but at the end, it is just one delicious drink. 

I bought this Aloe Vera from an Organic Shop and cost me only

RM2.80 which is cheap to me since I don't have this plant.

Click here if you don't know what is Aloe Vera.

Click here if you want to know the health benefit of Aloe Vera.

To chinese, this drink is "Yun" to our body (boosts immune system).

My kids said that this drink taste exactly the same  from the famous shop

that we bought.  With the crazy weather nowadays, do boil it for your family.

It is cheap to boil by our self and even great to know that we can have
more of the Aloe Vera compare to store bought.

1 pc of Aloe Vera

6 pcs of Red Dates (wash and seeded)

 My sister in law taught me the easiest method to handle the Aloe Vera.

DO NOT PEEL it cause it is very slimy and difficult to handle.

Cut around 4 to 6 inches in length and slice into half.

You will noticed the orange slimy dripping out....no worry,

just need to soak all of it into water for 10 minutes.

 After soaking for 10 minutes, rinse it well and drip all the water.

 Use sharp edge of  the soup ladle to scoop out the Aloe Vera.

See....so easy.

 Cut the Aloe Vera into desired sizes.

 Boil 1.5 liter of water with red dates for 45 minutes with medium fire.

Towards 30 minutes, add in the sugar cane rock sugar.

 After 45 minutes, add in the Aloe Vera and cook for 5 minutes only

and then switch off the fire.

You can drink it cold or warm.

I prefer warm and my kids prefer cold.



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White Fungus, Red Dates and Dried Longan Dessert (Tong Sui)

White Fungus, Red Dates

and Dried Longan Dessert Drink

(Tong Sui)

 If you are not going out during this crazy hot weather, do boil

this drink for your family and yourself.  Nourishes and moistens the lungs.

As Chinese said "Yun".  Removes dryness and heat in our body.

 In this post, my kids and I would like to wish their dad

and my husband "A Very Happy Father's Day" and all

Fathers out there.  We will only celebrate this occasion

when he touches down from Hong Kong today late afternoon.

Wanted to tell something about my husband.  

This month end is our 24th Anniversary.  

In our marriage life, there is ups and downs.  

Mark my words, there won't be any rosy journey in any marriage life.  

With good relationship, good communication, respect and love one another, 

patience, give and take, loyal, faithful, loving, trust, and etc...

I bet your marriage life will be long lasting. 

Of course, sometimes my husband will give me pain in the neck.

My character is that I do NOT like to prolong in any arguments even though

if I am right or wrong.  It is not that I am giving in easily 

(as what my kids said).  To me if the argument is not life threatening and 

not a big deal, why want to argue until the cow comes home.  

Wasting my energy and time and also give me a bad mood.  I don't want that!

My husband is a guy who provides well for the family and 

a very good filial son and son in law and 

also I love him more because he sweep/clean the floor 

and scrup/clean the toilets (whole house).....no joke, from our marriage life

until to date.  The reason being because he is fanatic on cleanliness

and said that I do not use much energy in it and the rest is history.

All my friends and colleagues said that I am a lucky woman 

because majority Chinese businessmen won't do it.

BUT, if he step on my tail (do I have a tail?...hahaha) then, 

I won't speak to him.  He don't like it when I do not speak to him....

(another weapon to use if I wanted to win and refuse to back out).

As what my kids was saying, majority households will have the

husband lazy on the couch when the wife sweep/clean the floor and

in our household will be the opposite. LOL

Oh! the family photo taken is at Floating Market in Bandung 

around early of  February 2014.

Enough of the long story....back to my recipe.

 25g White Fungus

40g Dried Longan

40g Dried Red Dates

65g Rock Sugar Cane

1.5 Liter Water

 Soak and clean White Fungus for 20 minutes or until soften.

Cut the bottom hard part.  Cut to desire sizes.

Soak and clean Dried Longan and Red Dates for 10 minutes.

Seeded Red Dates.

 Add water and all ingredients (except for the Rock Sugar Cane)

into a pot and boil for 30 minutes or 1 hour depends on your fire

either high or medium.  I used pressure cooker and took me only

30 minutes.  Lastly, add in Rock Sugar Cane.

(Boil longer, if you wanted the White Fungus to be softer in texture)

You can drink it while it is hot or cold in room temperature.

I have some left over during the night time and kept it 

in a container and put inside the fridge to drink it the next day.

Red Bean Dessert (Tong Sui)

Red Bean Dessert (Tong Sui)

 

The weather is so hot that my husband's butt can sweat! Hahaha!
With our hot weather these past weeks, it is good to drink some

tong sui (dessert).  Early in the morning, I cooked this dessert

so that my family can scoop it up anytime of the day.

If you want to drink it cold, just place it in the fridge.

Bon Appetit! :)

 

Saw these cook books? :)
Yesterday while I was having my vegetarian lunch with my
lovely colleagues, my son called me asking me what kind of cook
book that I want? Told him none cause his question was
so random.  And then suddenly he said that it is ok,
I know what you wanted!  When I reach home after my work,
saw a hard copy cook book "Delia Smith's Cakes" on top
of the coffee table and my mouth wide open with surprise.
Ask my son "You bought it for Mummy?" "Why?"
His reply "Because I Love Mummy and Yun (his sister)",
he also bought for her an enrichment book.
What a lovely gift from him for us especially for my collection
of cook books from famous chefs.  
Delia Smith was introduced by Zoe for Bake For Happy Kids
and my son saw me loading Delia Smith
website couple of times from my ipad.  How thoughful of him.
Love him very much from Mummy and Sis.
Back to my recipe:

Red Bean 240g (wash a few times)
Screwpine Leaves 6 pieces (wash and clean)
Water 3750 liter

Place the Red Beans and Screwpine Leaves inside a cooking pot.

Pour in all the water into the cooking pot.

Boil for 30 minutes with high fire and then lower to medium fire.
While it was boiling, my whole kitchen smell of screw pines
leaves and red beans.  What a nice smell.  I just love it.

Cook another 1 hour or more or until the red beans have soften.
Pour some caster sugar or sugar cane sugar into the cooking pot.
Check for the sweetness before you turn off the fire.
Let it cool before eating or placing into the fridge if you wanted it cold.
The choice is yours.

I just love to drink red beans dessert.  Don't you?
:)