About Julee Morrison

Hi, I’m Julee Morrison—cookbook author, recipe creator, baker, mom of six, and the founder of Mommy’s Memorandum.

For more than three decades, I’ve been writing about food, family, parenting, and the beautifully imperfect business of everyday life. Today, Mommy’s Memorandum is where I share easy family recipes, homemade baking recipes, Instant Pot recipes, copycat recipes, seasonal favorites, kitchen tips, and the stories that happen around the family table.

My goal is simple: to help home cooks make food that feels approachable, tastes wonderful, and is realistic enough to make again.

Cookbook Author & Recipe Creator

I’m the author of four cookbooks created to help teens, college students, beginner cooks, and everyday home cooks feel more confident in the kitchen:

• The Instant Pot College Cookbook
• The How-To Cookbook for Teens
• The Complete Cookbook for Teens
• The Complete College Cookbook

From teaching teenagers basic cooking skills to helping college students prepare practical meals in small kitchens, my cookbooks share the same philosophy you’ll find throughout Mommy’s Memorandum: good food should be approachable, useful, and worth making again.

Teaching people how to feel comfortable in the kitchen is one of my favorite things. I don’t believe a great recipe needs to be complicated, intimidating, or picture-perfect. Some of the best recipes are the ones written on stained index cards, passed around the family table, recreated from a favorite restaurant, or discovered because somebody asked, “What happens if we try this?”

Published Writer & Media Features

In addition to creating recipes and cookbooks, I’ve spent decades writing about parenting, family life, food, travel, and the experiences that become family stories.

My writing, recipes, parenting stories, and ideas have appeared in national and regional publications including The Los Angeles Times, Disney’s FamilyFun Magazine, Weight Watchers Magazine, All You Magazine, Scholastic Parent & Child Magazine, Red River Family Magazine, BonAppetit.com, and others.

My essay “Bon Jovi Obsession Goes Global” appeared in The Los Angeles Times. Several of my parenting stories and ideas were also featured in Disney’s FamilyFun, including “My Family Gave Up Television” in the August 2010 issue and another FamilyFun feature in September 2008.

My work has also reached readers in some wonderfully unexpected places. The story “My Toddler Stood on Elvis’ Grave and Scaled Over Boulders to Get to a Dinosaur” was picked up by the Associated Press, and my parenting story “The Sly Way I Cured My Child’s Lying Habit” was featured by PopSugar.

I also contributed to the charity anthology From the Heart.

About Mommy’s Memorandum

Food is a big part of my life, but for me, a recipe has never been just about the food.

It’s about the people gathered around the table.

It’s the recipe your grandmother made without measuring anything. It’s the weeknight dinner you somehow pulled together after an impossibly long day. It’s the birthday cake that leaned a little to the left but still made someone feel loved.

That’s the kind of cooking I believe in.

On Mommy’s Memorandum, you’ll find easy family recipes, homemade desserts and baking recipes, Instant Pot recipes, copycat restaurant recipes, comfort food, seasonal recipes, kitchen tips, and plenty of lessons I’ve learned through years of cooking for a family of eight.

I especially love recipes that solve a problem: dinner that works on a busy night, a dessert worth bringing to a celebration, a restaurant favorite you can make at home, or a recipe that helps a new cook walk into the kitchen with a little more confidence.

Before I share a recipe, I test, tweak, research, remake, photograph, and occasionally argue with it until I believe it deserves a place on your table.

More About Julee

Outside the kitchen, I’m a wife, mom of six, pet parent, artist, reader, spontaneous traveler, project completer, adventure seeker, and unapologetic cupcake connoisseur.

I’m a Utah native who became a Virginia transplant, and I’m happiest when I’m learning something, making something, reading something, baking something—or planning where I’m going next.

I have a lifelong love of books, art, family history, beautiful old things, crystals, baking, and adventures that make good stories later.

And yes, there’s usually another project waiting for me.

Let’s Stay Connected

If you enjoy easy recipes, baking projects, family food, kitchen experiments, and the occasional adventure outside the kitchen, I’d love to have you follow along.

• Mommy’s Memorandum on Facebook
• Instagram: @jonbonjovious
• Pinterest: @jonbonjovious
• X/Twitter: @jonbonjovious
• YouTube: Macad00
• LinkedIn: Julee Morrison

For questions, media inquiries, collaborations, or just to say hello, email me at julee_morrison@yahoo.com.

Wife. Mom. Cookbook Author. Recipe Creator. Baker. Artist. Reader. Traveler. Cupcake Connoisseur. Multi-Tasker. Adventure Seeker. Utah Native. Virginia Transplant.

Most of all, I’m someone who believes some of the best memories are made somewhere between the kitchen and the people we love.