NYT Cookingâs 20 Most Popular Recipes of 2020 Caramelized shallot pasta, the perfect chocolate chip cookies, sour cream and onion chicken: These are the recipes that kept readers coming back for more. Alison Romanâs caramelized shallot pasta.Credit...Michael Graydon & Nikole Herriott for The New York Times. Prop Stylist: Kalen Kaminski. By Krysten Chambrot Dec. 16, 2020 The year 2020 saw a lot of unexpected food trends: the rise of the bean, so many pastas and readers flocking to home cooking. These are our top 20 recipes by traffic, the recipes that readers came back to time and time again. (View our complete collections of