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 Foodie 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 we have every known food to man available to us. So as we continue on our journey to taste not only the world but the many flavors of our own great country, I will report back to you. I will try and be as descriptive as possible, but remember, I am just a normal person (well, mostly normal, LOL) trying to communicate with everyday people wanting to know about South Florida Food and Drink experiences.
But don't forget, you need to sign up and follow my blog. If you do it will give me encouragement to continue my journey on this great big communicator called the world wide web.
Till then, happy cooking, happy eating!