After graduating from the University of Virginia, Laura discovered her passion for cooking and nutrition while living a fast-paced corporate life in New York. She handed it all over to enroll at the Natural Gourmet Institute and headed back to her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, to launch LLBalanced, a popular food website, where she provides readers with affordable, comforting and make-ahead family-friendly meals that are packed with nutrients and flavor.
Forget tossing out sugar when it gets too hard! Pro chefs reveal their easy tricks for softening brown sugar instantly.
I like to either pulse hardened brown sugar in my food processor until just broken down or grate it with a cheese grater.