Top 10 Recipes from 2020
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The top 10 recipes from 2020 on These Old Cookbooks range from delicious side dishes and crock pot meals to old-fashioned casseroles and desserts. In what has been an incredibly interesting year, we have seen several new recipes be embraced by our readers. However, some of our tried and true dishes continue to be favorites of many. Our top ten recipes from 2019 featured several 5 ingredients or less recipes and that trend continued in 2020.
Top 10 Recipes from 2020
We aren’t going to keep you in suspense by counting the recipes down from 10 to 1. We will start at the top with our most popular recipe of 2020. While this recipe was super popular around the holidays, it truly was in the top 5 most viewed pages each day for most of the year.
#1 – Leftover Mashed Potato Cakes
We know…who has leftover mashed potatoes?? We can’t believe our granny – mother of 8 children on a dairy farm – ever had any either but she must have because this recipe came straight from her. These potato pancakes are crunchy on the outside with a creamy middle.
#2 – Mom’s Tuna Casserole
This classic tuna casserole straight from our childhood has held tight to the number two spot for the last couple of years. Made with frozen peas and canned tuna, this casserole is easy to make and always hits the spot.
#3 – Crock Pot Pork Roast
We love a good pork roast over at These Old Cookbooks and this slow cooker version is amazing. What is even more amazing is that this recipe has just 3 ingredients!
#4 – Yellow Cake Mix Gooey Bars
While we love a totally “from scratch” dessert, we also truly appreciate desserts that use shortcut ingredients to save us time (and a trip to the grocery store). These two-layer Yellow Cake Mix Gooey Bars feature a cream cheese top that is out-of-this-world. We love these so much that we have created several other versions, including Lemon Gooey Bars and Chocolate Gooey Bars!
#5 – Kentucky Southern Squash Casserole
We had an abundance of yellow squash from the garden this year…and everyone else seemed to as well! This casserole featuring yellow squash, cheese and butter crackers is an old-fashioned dish that always gets us compliments when served. One thing about this recipe always has our readers curious…YES, you do stir the crushed crackers in…they aren’t just a topping (even though we sometimes sprinkle some on top too).
#6 – Tuscan Sausage and White Bean Soup
Barbara’s son calls this “white soup” and begs her to make it on a weekly basis! It is hands down our number one recipe on the blog because it is so easy to make and can be customized to your taste! Be sure to check out the comments at the bottom of the blog post for this Tuscan bean soup to see how our readers have made it their own over the years! Our Top 10 Recipes from 2020 would not be complete without this recipe!
#7 – Crock Pot Beef Brisket
Take just a few minutes to prep and you will have a perfectly seasoned beef brisket that cooks all day in the slow cooker. We love slow cooking a beef brisket but if you prefer using the oven, we have a recipe for that as well!
#8 – Easy Cherry Crisp
We were a bit surprised that two of our fruit crisp recipes cracked our Top 10 Recipes from 2020 but they are both so good. This easy cherry crisp is made with just a few staple ingredients and features fresh cherries. It is definitely an old-fashioned recipe with no frills…but is perfect served with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream.
#9 – Grandma’s Apple Crisp
Grandma’s Old Fashioned Apple Crisp recipe is a traditional apple crisp without oats. The melt-in-your-mouth topping screams cinnamon and butter and will have your family begging for more. If you prefer a fruit dessert with an oat topping, check out this apple crumble recipe.
#10 – Classic Salmon Patties
These old-fashioned salmon patties have been a perennial favorite on our blog since we posted them a few years ago. Many people, including us, grew up eating these salmon cakes and everyone’s mom or grandma had their special way of making them. Most of the time, our mom would make them without crackers or breadcrumbs…you could say she made low-carb salmon patties before low carb was cool!
2020’s Top 10 Recipes
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Other Favorite Recipes from 2020
Even though this post is about our top 10 recipes from 2020, we had SO many recipes that caught our readers’ attention and appetites! Take a look at 10 more recipes that were popular over the last year:
- Hamburger Vegetable Soup with V-8 Juice
- 4-Ingredient Chicken Legs
- Easy Shepherd’s Pie
- Mom’s Perfect Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
- 3-Ingredient Chicken Salad
- Ground Beef Goulash
- Cheesy Summer Squash and Zucchini Casserole
- Pumpkin Crunch
- Friendship Tea with Tang (A perfect homemade gift idea)
Making mashed potato pancakes helped my mother use up leftovers from a Sunday roast, and I loved them. Leftover rice became pudding, and noodles were reimagined with canned pears and a buttery crumb topping. She was ahead of her time in preventing food waste. Thank you for bringing these memories back!
We’ve never heard of the noodles with pears and a crumb topping but now we are intrigued!! Thank you for sharing. We love how food can bring back such memories!