Cookbook Review: Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen

Today, I review an oldie but a goodie (first printed in 1996 and reprinted 10 years later). Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen was written about 10 years after I had the idea to do something similar: a dorm room cookbook (a project I never finished because I was too busy with college at the time).

I believe you could apply many of the recipes to college dormitory cooking. (We were only allowed to have either a single electric burner or a hot pot in our dorm room, so making our Sunday dinner was a challenge. Hot pots were difficult to clean, especially after making tuna noodle casserole. I understand some colleges now allow microwaves.) 

Anything that involves slightly more difficult concepts than, say, making a peanut butter or grilled cheese sandwich is pretty much explained. There's also a section on cooking basics. The down side, which I find with many cookbooks, is the lack of nutritional information. In moderation, however, none of this food should harm you. Furthermore, it's "kid" tested and mother-approved.

Written by the son/mom team of Kevin and Nancy Mills, this cookbook features simple recipes (for the most part).

If you're new to living on your own, don't know how to do anything besides boiling water and cooking soup and don't want to eat out all the time, buy this book! Its uncomplicated recipes and simple, matter-of-fact approach to cooking is the real thing.