About Me!

Hello!First of all thank you so much for visiting here.I am Sharmilee Jayaprakash ,living in Coimbatore with my family. I have heard my friends say that they learnt cooking only after marriage but in my case I was lucky enough to have my mother by my side even after marriage so I didn’t bother even to peek inside the kitchen as we had tasty food served everyday so I was happily spending time shaping up my career.

My mother is my greatest inspiration in cooking, I have grown seeing her cook a lot of recipes.She continues to inspire me and I believe my passions would have triggered from her.I owe all the credits I get for this space to her as without her struggle all alone to bring me up, I wouldn’t have been in the place where I am now. After marriage, hubby is my full time supporter for whatever I do!

How did it all begin ?! : Back in 2009 when I had mittu in me 🙂 I was looking for some respite from my day IT job and thats when food blogging was introduced to me.Once when I was searching for a recipe and that lead me to world of food blogging and I loved the idea too…Cooking, clicking and sharing recipes online….I went crazy browsing and exploring many new blogs each day. I was working full time as Technical Account Manager in a software firm, tried to squeeze in time for family, friends and my passion during those days.I worked for almost 7 yrs in IT field…But everything else took a back seat when my little one demanded me by her side, So I resigned my job in Jan 2012 to take care of her and to run behind my passions 🙂 So no more deadlines and commitments and I thoroughly enjoy the work I do!

Mittu was blessed with a baby brother(Gugu) in 2014 so now my world revolves around them! You can hear more about their tales here.

I’ve become passionate about cooking through the days and now love to experiment different cuisines though my origin is south side cuisines. Being a food blogger I don’t admit myself as an expert in cooking, to me the taste and perfection comes only by practice.

Its only me as a author and I am managing all the technical stuff all by myself with what I know….but the credit for the successful running of this website should go to my mother and hubby……And to my little one(I’m sure by now regular readers know her as mittu) who is the sole reason for this blog as I seriously started looking out for new and healthy recipes only after her birth.And to all you readers and friends who give me constructive feedback which motivates me to do more. The recipes posted here are collective from my mother, few from cookbooks, other blogs, word of mouth from friends etc so most recipes posted here are borrowed,adapted and very few tried on my own too….don’t worry, I post only successful recipes here 🙂

Other than cooking, I spend time either with my daughter else with my camera 🙂 I rarely watch TV but the only show that gets me hooked on is Super singer series. I can watch the live show, re-telecast and even the recorded program at a full stretch – yes kind of addicted to it esp the kids series.I love watching and hearing music, and I dont mind even if its on 24*7 🙂

I also started a Photo blog this year 2012 with project 365 : http://sharmiclicks.blogspot.in.

I am greatly interested in food photography and this space has become a platform for all my learning both for cooking and photography.

I started with a simple point and shoot camera Olympus Fe280. From Jan 2011, I was using a Nikon D3100 DSLR with 35mm prime lens.In 2015 bought Canon 750D(with kit and 35mm prime) which I am using currently.

As most of you know about my craze for mobiles which uis why I started sharmispassions initially, so I keep changing mobiles 🙂 as I love exploring.I always have a craze for google products but then suddenly had this urge to try ios so currently using iphone SE for insta pics not sure when my mind will change 😉

I use Photoshop CS3 for editing the pics.

There is lot of work put in right from cooking, arranging, composing a shot and finally editing before I present it here. So I request you to give credit where due and when you want to use the pics and recipes.Hope you would understand!

I hope you enjoy your time at Sharmis Passions!Have any queries or suggestions……feel free to write to me at [email protected]. Would love to hear from you!You can find Sharmis Passions in Google Plus,Facebook and Twitter!