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Melba's restaurant is the go to place for delicious down home Southern cooking in New York City, an owner and chef Melba Wilson says that she was born, bred and buttered in Harlem. And she recently showed me how she puts her heart and soul into all of her dishes. Mel you are restaurant royalty here in New York, especially the Harlem area. And that's probably why the US Open asked to partner with you for the flavors of the open. So what can we expect? Well, first of all, I am super duper excited to partner with the US Open. This message sends a message of hope. It sends a message that you can start with humble beginnings just as I did right here in the village of Harlem. And you too can make it to the US Open. This is the event that everybody wants to cook at, but also there are gonna be over 700,000 attendees. It's a big audience. Lots of people. Yeah, because they're working out, they're building up the endurance and energy and you're gonna feed them along with some other celebrity chefs that are gonna be there. What are you gonna be making for. Oh, well, I am going to be making my creamy ris macaroni and cheese. That sounds good. And also my award winning Southern Fried chicken and waffle and guess what? I'm not doing a traditional waffle. Of course, I am bringing a love get it love uh Waffle cone to the US Open flavors of the open this year, as well as my fish sandwich and uh my spring rolls and you're making me so hungry. So let's make a spring roll because I wanted to see what we're gonna be putting into this because of course, that's not your usual spring roll is Melba. So what are we gonna do here? So what we're gonna do is I like to repurpose food. OK. What do I mean by that last night I made collard greens. I made peas and rice and of course, I made some short ribs of beef. So we're not gonna add the short ribs of beef here today, but we are gonna use the leftover collard greens. We're gonna put all this. So I'm gonna show you how to do it. We're gonna take the collard greens. We have our spring roll wrappers and a try reform with the triangle facing us. So you just follow right behind me. Come on, Shannon and this looks healthy too. We got our greens in here. We have our greens right, right, right in the corner, right in the corner facing you and then we have peas and rice. So we're gonna take our peas and rice and this actually looks like something fun. The kids would want to do with me like they're making their own spring rolls or getting their hands dirty. And you have three kids and I would love to see you and your kids be hearing this at home. It would be a lot. Well, we, we could do it. You know what? And messy is not bad. It's also gonna be fun. So you take that cheese, put a little cheese over there. OK? A little cheddar cheese, put some for me. And so I'm ready. You're a great sous chef and then we're gonna wrap and you know it is 50 years of hip hop, right? We gonna, we're gonna wrap a roll, we're gonna take it, bring it towards you and just wrap, wrap it, fold it down two times and then we have some egg wash here. We're gonna take your egg wash and egg wash is gonna seal it for us, right? You're just gonna put it on the edges, your egg wash over here. I'll put a little bit on your, you got it. You got it a little bit, right. It's gonna seal the deal for us, right? And then we're gonna take your corners, fold your corners in there we go. I literally could do this. I'm gonna, you got this. No, you're, you're really good and keep rolling, baby. Keep rolling. Bring that next tip towards you. Bam. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that spring. Yours is, your wife would be so proud. She's already proud. Your kids would really be proud, right? Ok. Now we're gonna drop them in the fryer. Drop them in the fryer at 3 50. We're gonna take the tongues out, drop it, drop it like it's hot like it. There we go. There we go. And that's gonna fry for, for about 4 to 6 minutes depending on the temperature. Well, while that's fine, I'm gonna ask you, you people are used to coming to you right here in Harlem, but you have some big news to share with all the breaking news right here with you right here with you. We will be opening a meal in Grand Central Station. All the traffic that comes through there with the trains. It is, it is huge. I mean, I started out as a cashier and a cook in this industry. So to have a meal here in Harlem for 18 years, a place in Central Park as well. That's been there for two years and now Grand Central and of course the US open. Um you know, it, it it's, it's my story. My story is the American dream story, Shannon. But more importantly, if I can, you can too and if I can, so can you. So that's the story that I like to extend and parlay to other people watching this is not just reserved for me, it's reserved for we. And I know that that's been one of your trademarks, the themes of your life. You're always looking back to help others to pull people up along with you. Why is that such an important aspect of your life to help others? Well, it's important to me because I stand on the shoulders of so many others who came before me, I stand on the shoulders of, of, of my ancestors. And you know, whenever I'm having a rough day, I go outside and when I look to my right, there's a monument to Frederick Douglass. And but if I look to my left there is Harriet Tubman who built an underground railroad. So when I'm having a bad day, I go over there and I say, guess what if Harriet Tubman can build an underground railroad, I can change my community or at least be a part of the change that I seek in my community. And hopefully the, the Harlem of the world, you know, she said every dream begins with a dreamer and I am a dreamer shouting, I'm enjoying talking to you so much. I almost forgot to show everybody out. But this is gonna look like once it's done, it looks amazing. We got green beans, green beans. Well, I wanna taste it and see if it's as good as it looks because what is a sauce on here as well? Oh, it's, it's a Thai chili sauce. You can use a duck sauce here at Melvins, a Thai chili sauce in honor of one of my dear friends and chefs. Uh Miss this is amazing. Thank you. I'm so glad I had a chance to come here to try this out and everyone can try this at the US open as well as so many other menu items are gonna have there and they can get tickets at www dot ticketmaster dot com on August 24th flavors will be open from 6 30 to 8:30 p.m. And if you miss it just come to me but y'all because you don't wanna miss this. It is delicious juices and love. Oh my gosh, it was so good and it's so inspiring. Well, that's the thing I love what she had to say. And also, I mean, you take a look at the spring rolls and you that yeah, that's, that's was pretty impressive. And you think you can make this with your kids. You could replicate that because it was pretty simple. You just roll and you're done and so put all the good stuff in there and she said you could switch it out. It doesn't have to be the greens and the rice. You could put other things in too and you can put some sauces on. She got her book out and all the recipes in there. So it was, it was amazing. It was a lot of fun. And we're gonna be seeing some of this stuff later in the future episode, some of the stuff we're gonna taste too. So she was so good. We had to feature her again. So stay tuned for that. I agree. And I wanna throw mine in the air fry.

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Chef Melba Wilson shows you how she puts a healthy twist on her legendary down home comfort food.

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We do have warmer temperatures today. Yes, that's right. Mild temperatures, not as active winds thankfully. And we'll notice the winds out of the southwest will add on to that mild condition and high temperature for today reaching 50 degrees. Some of us, even 52 New York, you'll notice also our weather icons plenty of sunshine this afternoon. We'll notice some passing clouds, but that's it as far as you know, what can linger across our skies tomorrow though. You'll notice those rain showers into the afternoon in New Brunswick, 51 degrees. You'll expect the same across Edison and Newark 52 as well. In some locations though. We'll notice the rain arriving a little bit on the earlier side. So around 12 and to two, but that's for northern portions of the state across the state though. So central northern as well as southern portions, especially across the shore four and into seven o'clock into the afternoon, evening time frame could be expected to see that wet weather. How much, not much we're noticing trace to upwards, you know, 1/10 to 10th of an inch. So that's not significant rainfall. We're not noticing too much of major impacts with that today. It's sunny and chilly but feeling seasonable all in all we're supposed to be right where we're going to 50 degrees as a high temperature, 52 for some spots as well. Tomorrow we wake up into the thirties, we notice some clouds filtering in right around nine o'clock into lunch time. That's when we'll notice a lot of the system just, you know, breaking apart into two pieces first across Sussex and Warren County as well, North Bergen Counties as well. Then four o'clock, it's central southern portions and northern corridor, not as substantial as in the first round of rain, but nicely exiting right around seven and eight o'clock, calm conditions heading into the overnight. We start off on the dry side, too, more sunshine for Saturday, but it doesn't last for too long. The clouds will be back into play as well as those late showers arriving filtering in across for Sunday and Sunday. Then it becomes a Monday thing as well. So we're heading into the fifties, feeling so much better, even our overnight lows staying stuck into the forties.

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Just Alex Kama. Fun fact, like you said, it's 10 degrees warmer today. Look at that. Yeah, it's so much nicer out there. We deserve this guys after two days of really feeling like January, we're back to feeling like November on the last day of the month. It's definitely not as cold this afternoon, but you do need the jacket this morning. I'll show you the temperatures in a bit. Showers arrive for Friday evening. So most of the day Friday dry, but it will be cloudy. The weekend looks really mild, temperature wise, but it is overcast the whole day. So waking up, you're in the thirties, it feels like twenties. But by 910 in the morning, we're all in the forties and then we move into the upper forties with lots of sunshine. The sunset is at 429. So we are going to absorb every moment of sun today, especially since we have a long stretch of cloud cover coming our direct starting tomorrow. So again, highs could hit 50 in a few spots. Most of us are just shy of it tonight. We drop into the upper thirties and low forties. So that's an improvement. You see Mott Haven at 38 for your Friday morning low and then you are 49 in frogs neck on Friday. So again, it looks like a mild day. But the difference on Friday is that it is mostly cloudy and we do have a few dry sprinkles. So here's the picture. You see most of Friday dry, but then four o'clock, a couple of these showers start to creep in by six o'clock. They push over our area. So it's kind of just sprinkling. It's not a huge impact, but you might need the umbrella Saturday dry, especially to start, but the clouds will be pretty thick. Temperatures are gonna be in the fifties just about all day and we're going to watch for that quick little stray shower chance Saturday evening. So here's how the weekend is shaping up. Definitely Saturday is the better chance for dry weather. Sunday looks more overcast with a better chance of rain in the evening, but both days will have their dry time and we're in the fifties. So it's hard to complain, especially for a first weekend in December, which is historically one of our coolest months out of the year. But this is not a bad forecast. All of these temperatures much milder than what we dealt with yesterday.

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Talk about the day ahead and how it's going to feel outside. Yeah. So it will feel a lot better than the past couple of days after a cold start early this morning. I mean, at least we got to pair the cold start with a gorgeous sunrise earlier this morning along the Hudson River and really everywhere. But expect a lot of sunshine even into the afternoon. Today, temperatures will rise into the forties and they'll be around the low forties before noon time today, afternoon, middle and upper forties. That's right on par with our normal average high this time of the year, which is around 4647 degrees. So, yes, you still want a jacket or a heavy sweatshirt into the afternoon, but it's not as brutally cold as it felt the past two days. So really nice today, then just partly cloudy skies move in for this evening and overnight temperatures will drop back down into the thirties. Then tomorrow afternoon, highs will reach the upper forties to near 50 again. So no problems with the temperatures tomorrow, but there will be mostly cloudy skies moving in during the morning and during the afternoon we can't rule out a few rounds of some light rain showers around. This will be off and on spotty, light rain. Nothing that's really even going to slow you down too much. But I would suggest you have the umbrella or a rain jacket tomorrow afternoon as there will be some showers around and the shower activity is out of here by around five or six in the evening hours tomorrow. Then some drier weather will push in later on tomorrow night ahead of an ok Saturday. So highs today well into the forties, smile worthy weather have the sunglasses. It's a nice bright day, just have a jacket too, a slight chill, but nearly as cold as the past two days, low forties into this evening eventually bottoming out in the thirties for most tonight, a few upper twenties in western orange and up into Dutchess and Ulster counties into early tomorrow morning. So it will be a little bit of a chilly start again tomorrow afternoon, upper forties to near 50 with just a few spotty rain showers during the afternoon, mostly cloudy on Saturday, 5350 with a few showers on Sunday. Most of next week at this point looks ok with more clouds and Sun Monday and Tuesday, temperatures do get a little bit colder.

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All right, let's get a check of the forecast with Rich Hoffman. It is going to be a bit warmer out there today. I am happy about that after the cold conditions this morning with twenties and thirties. How about temperatures in the mid upper forties? With that sunshine? We're looking much nicer around the island for today. We're getting back to average and actually a little bit above average towards the weekend, but we do have some changes coming our way. Some clouds, some wet weather will be on the horizon today, temperatures are in the mid and upper forties. You can see through Brentwood this afternoon. There's your sunshine, mostly sunny skies. A few clouds coming in towards this evening and for the evening rush hour dry weather conditions with temperatures in the mid forties, wind chills this morning have been in the twenties and thirties. Yes, it has been cold this morning. We're improving our weather during our afternoon hours. Take a look around the tri state region. Sunshine from the east end to the west end, Nassau County, seven County heading into the five boroughs of Queens down along the Jersey shoreline heading north today mostly sunny skies. Take a look at our temperatures here for today. 48 degrees, mostly sunny tonight. Partly cloudy skies. A little chilly to cold at 38 but not as cold. The last couple of morning we've had temperatures in the twenties with wind chills in the teens and twenties. The cold weather is with us. Now, going through the afternoon hours, temperatures, mid and upper forties, you can see here at around 330 going towards tonight. A few passing clouds, your evening rush hour will be dry with temperatures in the lower forties. For your Friday morning temperatures around 35 to 40 before eight o'clock. We're right around 930. Now, mid forties, even some fifties popping up more sunshine on Friday and then towards Friday evening, a few spotty showers start to develop some nuisance showers coming our way and an overnight Friday just kind of cloudy skies. But drier weather conditions into Saturday and a few more raindrops coming in Saturday night into your Sunday. So recapping your Thursday forecast today, forties to around 50 degrees, mostly sunny and nice afternoon. Then for tonight, lows are in the thirties, partly cloudy skies and then going into tomorrow, we can see here fifties after morning sunshine showers Friday evening, mostly cloudy Saturday showers coming in Sunday, Monday, but temperatures in the fifties

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Beautiful. That's so nice. Yeah, I did a great job and you got something nice, didn't you? From your weather? Kids from yesterday? Or Hills Elementary? He sent a nice thank you dear Mr Cubit. We are glad that you came to. We hope you like the car. Did they make you a car? They did. It made a nicer in edition of Thunderbolt 12. Coming up there. They are right there. You are. They knew a lot about the seasons. They said summer, winter were their favorites. They told us about a little different kind of precipitation that happens year round. Oh, they were really jumping in with the answer. There are thunderbolt. Oh, we love it. And there's the note and there's the note they made for you say it was a good visit, John. It was a good visit. They reminded us to wear our coats because it's cold outside. I'm with you. I'm not a fan of the cold eye. We see those temperatures rebound as we push forward, getting into the later part of this afternoon. But as we roll into your December for tomorrow, we are opening up this month on a little bit of a wet not, but again, numbers closer to average 49 for this time of year, we'll see 47. So listen, two degrees here there. We're looking pretty fine. Lots of sunshine. We continue to stay dry. High pressure is in control. 46 for Newtown. That's your two hour 46 for us here across Newark, 44 for Bridgeport. And then as we head into here tonight, not all too bad, still, not quite as cold, do need the jacket but thirties we'll take, we'll see forties on the wake up for your tomorrow morning. Lots of sunshine, clouds fill in late morning. Then that sets the stage for rain which we have on tap for the early parts of your afternoon for some spots. A little bit of some light scattered shower activity, a little bit of a break, mid-afternoon. Then that commute home on a Friday evening. Yeah, it could be a little bit of a doozy certainly with adding some rain to the forecast. So if you could sneak out the offense a little bit early, you should be pretty fine. But for those that do have to trek along I 95. And the merit again, we're watching for a few showers. Then by your Friday night, we're looking good. By around 7789 o'clock, we're drying out nicely. Still working with decent numbers into the forties. Not quite too cold as if you're gonna be out and about for your Friday night, you're looking good and then pushing into your Saturday, we're looking dry first half of the weekend looks pretty good. It's really gonna be Sunday, late part of the day. We're gonna see showers back into the picture. And again, we're looking a little unsettled as we're opening about the month of December.

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Live Life Better: Chef Melba Wilson puts a healthy twist on comfort food

Chef Melba Wilson is considered the queen of soul food and her restaurant. Melba's is a staple in Harlem. So I recently met up with Melba who showed me how she puts a healthy twist on her legendary down home comfort food. Melba. I am so excited to be here. Not only because all this food is on the table, but I know you as a staple here in the Harlem community, but you've been getting a lot of attention on social media. So talk to me about who you were most excited to see come into the restaurant. Well, I'm super excited to have you here today. OK. So let's let's start there. There are a lot of kings and queens here in my local community, but we also had the Duke and the Duchess of Sussex. Yes, Harry and Megan Prince Harry ate his first chicken and waffles right here in Harlem at Melvins. And my kids will be happy to and oh my God, I love and has been coming here literally since she was about 15 years old. And the other thing that you've been going viral for is the macaroni and cheese and the stringy test. So I wanna see if it passes the stringy test. This stuck to the fork. It's so cheesy. So I gotta taste it. It's hot, it's hot. Be careful. Oh, that's good. It's good. It's very cheesy. But it is very cheesy. But a black girl from Harlem. I cannot have macaroni and cheese. That doesn't have any cheese in it. So I have three types of cheese in there. Really. Add my mozzarella cheese a little bit of pepper, Jack just to give it a pop of spice. And of course, everything's better with cheddar as you know. Yeah, it's special about the fish. I'm gonna, well, my fish is light. It's delicious and it's one of the top sellers here at, at, you know, it's catfish and um it's southern just like me and it's delicious. It's not too heavily breaded, which I like. Not at all. You can taste the fish very, very good. And I also season my flour. I put my sugar and special and unique. Um my grandmother, when she made soul food, she would put the ham hocks in there. So I wanna know a little bit of a healthier uh version of comfort food. A K A salt. And I use smoked turkey and your cookbook. You have all these recipes in it. They sure do. They sure do. This is my cookbook on Simon and Schuster uh called Melvin's American concert. Wow. Ok. Now, I haven't tasted anything with the barbecue sauce and the hot sauce. But you now have these available for you to buy as well. Yes. So we had so many guests coming in and they're asking us, we wanna take a bit of Melva's home with us or whenever people see us on, on the tube or social media, they're like, what kind of Melva's can we take home? Even if you don't visit the restaurant, you can come in and you can take a taste of Melvin's Comfort home with you. We have our barbecue sauce which we use on our short ribs of beef. I personally use it on my burgers. You know, when I season my burger, I put a little bit of barbecue sauce just to give a bit of take it over the edge and my hot sauce come on now, you know, hot sauce is amazing. You mentioned you would like to put a healthy twist on some of your food because comfort food is not always the healthiest. So how do you balance the comfort with the health aspects? Well, you know, it's, it's all, it's also about moderation, right? It's about moderation. I think, you know, my grandparents lived to be my grandmother, my great grandmother, 100 and five, my grandmother, 100 and my grandfather 99 and they ate this type of food every day. You know, we can't leave without trying your famous chicken and waffles. Wait, you mean the chicken and waffles? The one that I beat the iron chef. Bobby Flay. Sorry, Bobby. You know, but I did, I did, I, I did slay the flame. I really, really did. So a lot of people get afraid of a meal that looks this amazing and large. Well, I have to tell you chicken and waffles like me was born bread and butter right here in Harlem, started by a gentleman named Mr Wells. Um and it was actually my son who inspired me to put eggnog in my waffles. So, yeah, yeah, we're throwing down a different type of way. I love that and I am definitely living here happy with all this food. Go ahead and wrap this up for me, please. Thank you so much. Appreciate it and welcome back home. Yes.

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