Compliments of the season to all my amazing friends on the Steemit ecosystem. It is yet another joyful day of my life, celebrating an additional year of my life. Today is my birthday and I turned 37th years older. As my husband usually says, “…you have added another year-old closer to your grave”. Hehehehe and I will always remind him that I'm not closer to my grave because I am still young. That is the consoling way because we are afraid of death 😆😄😆😆.

It feels good to grow older especially when you have achieved most of your goals in life. I am a mother of two handsome boys and an adorable girl. I am at the point of breaking through in my career and when I look back on what I have achieved over these 37 years on Earth, I remain grateful to my creator and all those around me who have impacted my life in one way or the other.

That said, I did not throw any party for this day but I decided to give myself a treat at home, creating my own recipe. I had taken this day off from work and wanted to sit back at home and reflect and meditate. After my meditation, I decided to create a recipe.

^{My special dish for the day}

The Ingredients used

• Ripe plantains
• Pork
• White Pepper
• Basil
• Celery
• Garlic
• Tomatoes
• Onion
• Vegetable oil

The Process of Preparation.

I started by washing my plantains before peeling off and cutting them into desirable slices. Pour vegetable oil in a pot deep fry them and set aside.

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Then I took my spices and put in a bowl, added some salt to disinfect and properly washed them with clean water. Then I cut my pork into smaller slices.

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I proceeded and sliced my tomatoes and onions, poured them into the pot and fry to get the onion flavour and neutralise the sour taste from the tomatoes. I put in the sliced pork and sliced my basil and celery and added. Stir a bit to mix well.

I added salt and Maggie to taste, grind my white pepper and garlic on a local grinding stone. It gives a nice flavour. I added in the other fried ingredients and added a bit of water, stir and allow it to simmer for about 3 minutes.

I added the already-fried plantain in the ingredients and stirred, allow it for about 3minites for the ingredients to simmer well into the plantains.

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After three minutes of boiling, I stir again and my food was ready. I served myself a plate and it was mouth-watering.

The evening ended with me watching Europa league and taking a glass of cold juice.

I can say the day ended well and I will say it is a good night from my end.