Introduction to my Food and to Me

I really enjoy food. Not just eating it, although that gives me great pleasure, if it's good of course. I enjoy cooking for friends. I love watching them enjoy my creations. And if for some reason my food isn't up to par, I even enjoy the feedback. I love to learn about food. Whether it's from my mistakes or from the many cooking shows I watch.
My name is Diane, you can call me Foody Di! I own approximately 300 cookbooks, maybe more.
I know that's a bit obsessive, but I can't help myself. I love Cookbooks. My husband cringes every time he sees those brown cardboard book shaped boxes in the mailbox. I don't blame him. But I can't help it! REALLY! This is where the obsession annoys him. When I want to make something or try to figure out what to make. I get out a bunch of those books, look through them and put them away. He asks, "Didn't you find anything?" And I say "yeah, lot's of things." So why did you put them away?
This is why, because, I go to them for Ideas and then I just wing it from there. I make it my way, with whatever ingredients I like or whatever I have on hand. "Don't try that for baking, baking is a science." It's like what Rachael Ray says. She gives you a method and you use whatever ingredients you want for your taste.
Now for the other Foodie in me!
I love to eat out. My husband and I are trying to eat every ethnic food available to us. Now we live in South Florida so there's really not any unavailable to us.
We have had the following: American, Italian, Cuban, Peruvian, Nicaraguan, Puerto Rican, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, German, Greek, Irish. I don't know if it's the restaurants or the type of food, but here is what we observed so far.
Puerto Rican - I thought it was okay, nothing special. My husband will not go back. He did not like it at all.
German - NO, No, No! Neither one of us enjoyed the food. It was bland, eneventful and tasteless.
Thai - We both loved the food, but were starving when we left. Not enough of it. And I am not a big eater. I love my food, but I really don't eat a lot at one time.

For now, this is it. My intention on this blog is to try different restaurants, bars and recipes and let you know what we think. Of course in a more decriptive way. The above was to just tell you a little about me without getting too technical.