Help! My Apartment Has a Dining Room Cookbook: How to Have People Over for Dinner Without Stressing Out

by Kevin Mills and Nancy Mills

The dynamic mother-son team who wrote Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen Cookbook now offers humorous advice and easy recipes for gen-Xers and other novice cooks who want to invite friends for dinner. When we last met Kevin Mills in the runaway, surprise bestseller Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen Cookbook, he was a recent college graduate who took a cooking-by-phone class from his mom in order to survive in the kitchen, eventually winning over his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395892554
• ISBN13: 9780395892558
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

So easy and delicious!

If you loved Help! My Apartment Has A Kitchen, you will love this sequel. The recipes are still easy, but are slightly more fancy. Many of them have good visual appeal which make them suitable for entertaining. (My fave are the chicken satays with peanut sauce!) The cookbook also contains ideas and advice for entertaining guests and offers menu suggestions.

I'm an amateur chef and loved this book!

My cooking experience includes making boxed macaroni and cheese and toast. I received this book as a gift last year but just recently put it to use. Over the last month, I have worn it out! I am a vegetarian but also wanted to cook for friends who are meat-eaters. The book includes many receipes for everyone. The receipes are easy to understand and fun to read. Kevin and Nancy Mills have a fabulous sense of humor. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to start cooking but is intimidated and doesn't know where to begin.

A Must Have For Your Cookbook Collection

I received Help! My Apartment Has a Dining Room Cookbook for Christmas this year. I am what they call a "Cookbook Junkie", but this is by far one of my favorites. I have only had this book for a couple of days, and I have not been able to put it down! I really enjoy the little anecdotes preceding several of the recipes. Also, the mom tips and warnings are tremendously helpful and great time-savers. The prologue to this cookbook is quite comical, and the tips for throwing a stress-free dinner party will definitely come in handy. My mom has already gone online and purchased Help! My Apartment Has A Kitchen Cookbook for me. I can't wait until it arrives!

Not just for guests . . .

This is a wonderful cookbook, even if you are not having people over for dinner! More than once I have simply halved a recipe to make a quick and tasty meal for two. The recipes use common ingredients and are simple and well-explained in an entertaining fashion.

Wide variety of easy, yet exotic recipes! Great read!

This is a great cookbook for absolutely anyone. As a sleep-deprived pediatric resident with a husband who's a medical student, we often don't have time to cook, have a limited budget, but love trying new and different foods. This cookbook is perfect for us because there is a vast array of delicious international recipes guaranteed to tingle your taste buds, without a lot of effort on your part, in this easy to follow, extremely entertaining-to-read cookbook. If you're bored with your own cooking repertoire, here is a fantastic pick-me-up! Kevin and his mom have once again concocted a winner!