http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/dining/whats-for-breakfast.html 2016-09-12 17:04:54 What’s for Breakfast? A new captain at the helm, an easy breakfast hack and some recipes for the week. === Sam Sifton emails readers of Cooking f This is that morning when you wake up, roll over and discover that the person lying there next you is not Sam Sifton. It’s me, Kim Severson! You were terrific last night. Now what’s for breakfast? May I direct you to our Or, hopefully, you have a jar in the refrigerator with some overnight oatmeal. I have been making it a lot this summer: a cup of rolled oats, a cup of almond milk or a mix of yogurt and milk, with some chia seeds, maybe a few chopped nuts, a squirt of honey or agave and some chunks of juicy summer fruit. Shake it all up. Leave it in the refrigerator overnight, and you have breakfast when people like me wake up hungry. For the next couple of weeks, I’ll be driving the Cooking newsletter. Like all of New York City, Mr. Sifton is on vacation. For the rest of us out here in America, the stream of dreamy Instagram beach pics has ended and school has started. A quick bit about me: About six years ago, I left New York for Atlanta to take over The New York Times Southern news bureau. After four years of chasing politicians, tornadoes and an ever-escalating number of awful crimes, I came to my senses and returned to my people. The people who like to cook. I now travel the country searching out stories about our vast and varied food culture and hunting for recipes. (If you have a great story, please always send it to me first.) I recently picked up this And here are recipes for O.K., let’s get to it. Tonight is a fine time to put your summer produce to work in a vegetable gratin as re-examined by the very smart Julia Moskin, a woman I am proud to call my work wife. She was trying to solve But if turning on the oven isn’t your jam with all this heat, try her recipe for cool You’ll find, as we move along here, that I have a real love of dessert. I often find myself taking an afternoon break for chai and burfi at my favorite Indian sweets shop, of which Atlanta has several. Now I’ll offer you As always, let us know if you are having trouble with recipes, instructions or our Remember to add your notes to the recipes you try. The hive mind really helps. And follow me on