About

Hi,

I am Chinmayie a graphic designer and a food lover. This is my food blog.

I live in south Bangalore with my graphic designer husband and my 2 year old daughter. I have loved cooking and eating all my life! I was born and raised in Puttur a small town near Mangalore. I moved to Bangalore to study and have lived here ever since. I discovered my true love for cooking when I started living on my own and had to cook by myself for the first time. Starting from bread and egg to Maggi noodles I moved on to try all recipes I could lay my hands on.

I grew up eating hearty vegetarian Havyaka food. After more than 10 years of cooking and eating food from all over the world, I remain a vegetarian and a south Indian comfort food lover at heart even till this date. I enjoy cooking simple, fast and easy recipes which are healthy and tasty. Though cooking alone in my kitchen is one of my favorite ‘unwinding’ activities I don’t have the luxury of time with a hungry husband and super active 2 year old. So my recipes are for all of you who don’t really have the time to slave over the stove for hours. I like food which is super easy and I don’t settle for anything less than super tasty

I am starting this blog to share some of my recipes with you all. Most recipes will be vegetarian as that’s what we eat at home. Most ingredients are grown and available locally. I hate following recipes and mostly believe in rustling up something good with what is available in my kitchen so most recipes will be my own. It will be a mix of all cuisines as I am just sharing the recipes that we as a family love to cook and eat without any set rules.

About photography – All photos in Love Food Eat are taken by me unless stated otherwise. I am not a professional photographer! I picked my first DSLR just a couple of months before I started the blog to basically take photos of my gorgeous little daughter. I started photographing food only after I started this blog. I really didn’t expect all these compliments from my readers! But yes, it feels great! To be featured in websites like TasteSpotting and FoodGawker is a great honor for me!

I am enjoying photographing food as much as I enjoy cooking it. I think I am also getting better at it with each post! I spend hours reading about food photography, colours, composition etc these days and it’s so much fun! I think it’s an art which is very different from cooking yet so related!

I have a Canon 550D with a 50mm 1.8 lens. I take all my photos with just natural light. I have no other gadget or equipments and no formal training. I have a long way to go and I am sure this blog will help me a lot

{Updated} October 2011

 

After blogging for 5 months I am excited and honored by all the compliments I have received for my writing, photography and recipes! I have had a lot of people enquire if I am available for freelance work so I thought it’s time I updated this section

Though my family, kitchen and blog are my priority at this point, I am definitely open for work!

With each day of blogging I am realizing how much I love what I do. If you follow my blog you will know that I am passionate about experimenting in my kitchen. I enjoy creating new things out of seasonal/local ingredients. My food can be called simple home cooked Indian food to global palette.  I am particularly interested in recipe creation and food writing.

I could also take up food photography, food styling assignments. My blog is my portfolio! If you like what you see and what you read here, hire me!

My blog is open for advertising and product promotion. Of course food products/companies will be the main focus.

Get in touch with me for more info!

 

Hope you all enjoy to cooking and eating these foods as much as I do!

Cheers!

Chinmayie