4,353 tender recipes

Tender beef steak strips, mushrooms with egg noodles in a tangy sauce. Perfectly sized for two servings and it's all cooked in one pan for a no-fuss weekday main dish.

Moist homemade banana bread made with three ripe bananas and a full cup of sour milk. The buttermilk-style batter bakes up tender with a tight, even crumb and rich banana flavor.

Half whole-wheat, half white flour buttermilk pancakes with a hint of cinnamon. Tangy buttermilk and baking soda give a tender, lofty crumb that crisps golden on a hot griddle.

Mary Rogers's sourdough biscuits use an overnight starter sponge for a tender, tangy biscuit with a soft crumb. A pioneer-style overnight rise that beats any quick biscuit hands down.

Gluten-free chocolate chip cookies made with soy flour and potato starch. Tender, nutty cookies studded with chocolate chips prove gluten-free baking can be simple and satisfying.

Mom's meatloaf: a classic, no-frills loaf studded with onion and celery, baked tender under foil, then finished with a ketchup glaze. The old-fashioned comfort-food dinner everyone grew up on.

Mom's cranberry orange scones with tart frozen cranberries, bright orange zest, and a buttermilk-tender crumb. An overnight flour-and-fruit rest soaks up excess moisture for the perfect texture.

Super fudge cupcakes soak chopped dates in boiling water before folding into a chocolate batter studded with chips and nuts. Date-sweetened, intensely fudgy cupcakes with a tender crumb.

100 percent whole-wheat bread baked into a free-form round loaf. Yeasted with brown sugar, enriched with egg and dry milk, kneaded and double-risen for a tender, hearty crumb full of fiber.

Sugar snap peas are a sweet and crispy cross between snow peas and garden peas. This technique for blanching ensures your peas stay bright green and perfectly tender crisp.

Thick, creamy cheddar potato broccoli soup made from scratch in one pot. Chunks of tender potato and broccoli in a velvety cheese broth that's ready in about an hour.

Apple pecan pound cake with sauteed Granny Smith apples, toasted pecans and a hot caramel glaze drizzled over a tender bundt. Fall dessert that tastes like apple pie in cake form.

Buttery shortbread dough studded with finely ground almonds bakes into tender, melt-in-your-mouth cookies where almond extract amplifies the nutty richness in every crumbly bite.

Homemade cheese blintzes, thin tender crepes wrapped around a sweet cottage cheese filling and rolled up, served with chocolate sauce. A classic Eastern European brunch treat made from scratch.

Lemon blueberry oatmeal muffins with a crunchy oat-sugar topping. Made with egg whites and skim milk for a lighter muffin that still bakes up tall, tender, and bursting with berries.

Pull-apart Kentucky buttermilk biscuits baked together in a tender slab, scored into 12 squares for fluffy soft sides. Tangy buttermilk and cold butter make every layer flaky and tall.