http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/dining/happy-labor-day.html 2016-09-05 17:50:00 Happy Labor Day! Patty melts, ice cream cake and more for a day of celebration. === Sam Sifton emails readers of Cooking f Good morning. Maybe you’ve been up for hours, tending to I hope you’ll read Still, we’re tending to a low hum of anxiety here at Take some time today to think about it. If you make a big batch of granola and lay in some fruit and yogurt, you’ll have breakfast squared. Melissa has a nice If you cook a couple of chickens in the manner Julia Moskin calls for in her And for dinners? Time to pull out the sheet pans. If you cut a bunch of vegetables into uniform dice, you can roast them in a hot oven under a spray of olive oil and some salt and pepper, and pair them with sausages or And as always, there is pasta. You could make Melissa’s You can find many, many other ideas for what to cook on Now, check out And tell me if I’m crazy. I read William Gibson’s “The Peripheral” recently. No? Time for a patty melt. Have a great holiday.