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We’re in the kitchen with “The Oval” star Nick Barrotta and his grandma showing you how to cook the perfect meatball.

The "be Well" team got in the kitchen with Nick Barrotta, star of "The Oval." Barrotta and his grandma shared the secret to cooking the perfect meatball.

THE PERFECT MEATBALL

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There it is. Right. But pat very best wishes from us here at News 12. That's, that's, that's awesome. Happy birthday. Ok, let's see where we're getting uh to the forecast. As we go through the next couple of days, we are going to be looking for, let's say mainly cloudy skies for the first part of the overnight hours. Then as we get closer to date break, we'll start to see the skies begin to clear. So right now we're sitting at 37 we'll watch the temperatures drop down into the upper twenties. There is going to be a bit of a wind chill. So the numbers here that you're looking at those are the forecasted lows take 10 degrees off of that. That's likely what it's going to feel like waking up tomorrow morning. We're also going to keep an eye on the opportunity for a few scattered snow showers to move across the area. I mean, you saw some snow showers earlier today, but there wasn't enough oomph in the atmosphere to actually get that snow to collect tomorrow. There is a possibility that we might actually see some gusty winds moving some of these lake enhanced snow showers towards New Jersey. Otherwise the cold air will continue for tonight going into tomorrow and then this fair weather system moves away. We start to see the temperatures begin to warm for the second half of the work week going into the upcoming weekend. But with that warmth comes the opportunity for a wind driven rain. On Sunday, Sunday does not look like a great end to the upcoming weekend. Let me, let me stress that. I think Sunday afternoon is cloudy but not necessarily raining the rain or at least the steady, more consistent rain is likely going to up here in New Jersey, probably sometime after about five o'clock in the evening. And then the weather really starts going downhill for Sunday night, going in a very early Monday morning. So on the chillier side for tomorrow, temperatures begin to rebound on Friday with mainly sunny skies. Saturday starts off with sunshine. We end up with some cloud coverage but still a dry day. Most of Sunday early afternoon is cloudy. The rain doesn't start until after about dinner time. But once it starts to pick up, there's an opportunity for a 1 to 2 inch rainfall. There is also an opportunity to see maybe winds gusting to between 4060 miles an hour, especially at the shoreline. That system goes away and we've got some beautiful weather for next week and temperatures are on the cold side of seasonable. I'll have more details on that in just moments. Sounds good, Dave. Thank you, cycling for a suspect tonight and three things to know.

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Now, the question I have about the mayor is that the weather down in DC, a warmer than the weather here because it's got to be at least a little bit better. It is a little bit warmer in DC. But you know, we are dealing with that really cold pocket of air that is taking us just for one more day. But we are going to turn our eyes for the weekend an early look for what are some potential impacts for this storm. So some thunderstorms in December, that's what is possible for Sunday evening into Monday, steady rain isolated flooding high winds of 40 MPH or even stronger that can knock down some decorations even cause some scattered power outages and then temperatures start to crash. So we're forecasting a high of 61 on Sunday by Monday night. It's going to be in the 30. So that's something that we need to monitor in terms of tomorrow. Another very cold start, temperatures will be near 29 feeling much colder than that high. Tomorrow will be in the low forties, feeling like the mid thirties throughout the day. A few flurries possible by the early afternoon drying out and clouds clearing out by Friday. Seeing more of that sunshine seasonable fill with highs in the upper forties. Saturday will actually be the pick of the week. We're going to see that beautiful sunshine highs in the mid fifties and then we're watching for some stormy weather on Sunday.

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Well, winter right around the corner. And will we be seeing any bitter cold temperatures in the Hudson Valley? That is the question for Addison Kevin. I happen to have the answer one more day. Then we're gonna get a little bit better out there. But will we be staying that way for long? You know, that's a different story. But let's break it down for you over the course of the next few mornings where after we go past tomorrow morning, Thursday morning, where temperatures will be feeling the ops by Friday morning, it'll be feeling, feeling better, I should say. And Saturday, we're certainly not feeling that chill in the air as milder air is moving this way. In fact, Saturday is going to be the brighter of the two weekend days ahead. It's a 5050 split. Saturday is a gem Sunday, a little stormy but overnight and then towards your Thursday, we still keep that cold air around. You may see a flurry of two come on in including going around the sunset time frame. As Hanukkah begins, we'll be dealing with temperatures around 37 degrees, feeling around the low thirties and then moving on into the evening hours. Any little bit of flurry activity that was around earlier is gone. Now, the pick of the week it's Saturday, 55 degrees. Temperatures running 10 degrees plus above average, it'll be a nice, mild feeling in the air for southerly flow coming up this way. But we'll watch a system move in towards our region for Sunday continuously. Bringing up that southerly flow, push and more moisture up. This way, the winds will start to increase and we'll get batches of rain coming on in through Sunday afternoon through the evening hours, wrapping up by early Monday morning. So any of those holiday lights that are around your household, maybe some loose trees as well. They may be impacted by some of those gusty winds. Potentially. On the way for your Thursday morning, we're waking up in Newb with a temperature of fuel in around 21 degrees out towards White Plains of 24. There are a few passing snow showers trying to come on down this way, but they'll dry out, fizzle out as the air is moving on down from the northwest to a southeast. Skies are coming out nicely for Friday morning. We'll just see a mix of sun and clouds going out through the day on Friday before this system starts to inch closer towards the east coast. By Saturday. It's pushing into the Ohio River Valley down towards the Deep South. It's heading up towards our vicinity for your day on Sunday. But notice before noon it's just on our doorstep. So the first half of your Sunday looking pretty good. Second half, not so much. That's why we got the red box right there and we'll watch this system be leaving our area early Monday morning with some breezy winds to follow.

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At least we'll have that sunshine to kick off your Thursday. So in the morning, we're in the twenties in the afternoon, Kings Park 41 degrees. It will become mostly cloudy again. Uh Tomorrow is very similar to today. We could have a couple of flurries in the afternoon, not a big deal. And then we have sunshine and warmer weather on the way. Look at our numbers the next few days. They're on the rise, especially Saturday to Sunday, Sunday. We are near 60 degrees, but our weather will slow, go downhill through the day. So at the bus stop in the morning, 28 heading home from school 42. With that passing flurry, you can see that we are dry to wake up. The blue color is showing you that cold weather in place. Three o'clock in the afternoon. We have those thirties to near 40 at night into Friday morning, not as cold thirties. And then we get up into the upper forties nearing 50 by Friday afternoon. It's dry with more of a southwest wind. Saturday is my pick of the week. It will be beautiful, sunny and warm Sunday starts out dry with some sun, the breeze out of the south will pick up through the day. Late afternoon. There may be a very brief shower, but you see most of the rain is just sitting off to our west throughout the day and it will approach late in the evening. This is nine o'clock. We have that rain in New Jersey to New York City on our door up most of the rainfalls overnight. So most of us will be sleeping through it. It could be heavy at times with gusty winds and it's out of here by Monday morning, Monday afternoon will improve, but we'll have some lingering gusty winds. So get ready for a cold night. We see those warming temperatures through the weekend with that rain. Sunday night, Monday morning could be a little bit wet and windy with sunshine.

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Joining us. Now we decided it's a purple day. We match match. It's gonna be a good day. Yeah, it's also the start of Hanukkah and we've got, you were saying earlier, the coldest temperatures we've seen this week. Yeah, just like last week, Wednesday into Thursday, it was a very cold morning. We're dealing with that same cold for us today. Now, just keep that in mind as you make your way out the door, you're gonna want to bundle up, you're gonna need that layer, that extra layer, that sweatshirt, the hat, the gloves. Because while we're gonna try to get into the upper some spots may try to see 40 we're gonna feel like the thirties throughout the day. That wind chill is still gonna stay locked in and we're not getting out of this pattern until maybe the later party or tomorrow. So again, get into this routine tomorrow morning, you're looking at another cold start, maybe not quite as cold, but for tonight, temperatures dropping off down into the twenties, for areas up north, we'll try to hold on to thirties for areas along the shoreline. A lot of cloud cover for today. We're not seeing a lot of sunshine to help warm things up. So that's part of why we're going to continue to work with this chilly weather. And again, we're sitting anywhere from 10, almost 15 degrees cooler than where we should be for this time of year. Now, we're not going to rule out a few flakes or two like we saw yesterday for a lot of us here across Western Connecticut. But as we push forward into your tomorrow, better chance at some sunshine for the start of the day, numbers are going to be in the lower to mid thirties. We'll climb into the lower forties. It's really going to be your afternoon. You'll start to feel a little bit more relief, not quite as blustery as what we're going to deal with for you today. But look ahead to your Saturday, Saturday afternoon. Those numbers are in the mid f. It's going to be a nice day, mixture of sun and clouds, enjoy it because unfortunately, we do have again, a very strong wind driven system pushing in and we also have some colder air behind it. So once we work away into our Sunday where we're watching for some steady to heavy rain, we also have strong gusty damaging winds, potentially, maybe want to, you know, tie down those Christmas decorations or bring them in. That's how strong some of these winds are expected to get here across the region. So we're going to keep our eye on your Sunday into your Monday and we're really going to watch for some heavy rain and some potentially damaging.

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Live Life Better: How to cook the perfect meatball with Nick Barrotta and his grandma

Well, he stars on the hit Tyler Perry series, The Oval. And in addition to being a really good actor, Nick Baratta is also a really good cook and his whole family is, and I met up with him and his grandma to talk food family and how to make the perfect pasta. Nick Barrada. Thank you so much for having us at your family restaurant. The Ivy, you know, a lot of people are used to seeing you on television and Tyler Perry is the oval, but you're also helping out in your family restaurant. So tell us about this place. Yeah, this place is amazing. We're going on two years now, which I, I can't believe I gotta give a lot of credit to my brother Zach. Ok. This place is a beast. So I'm just here to help when I can. All right, but it's his blood, sweat and tears into this place. I can't take all the credit. Uh, but you, I said we're going on two years and uh I wanna show you some good food. All right, what are we making today? All right. So this is one of our signature dishes here. The Baratta pasta. Ok. We have the fresh rigatoni here, which is incredible. What we do is we add this crispy pancetta a little basil and we have our Baratta uh cheese here. But we spell that like your last name. You spell that right there. So we add that on top and then we Sprinkle some of this Loli cheese here as well. I'm real Nancy. We just throw some color on as well. I'm gonna get started decorating this a little bit. And while I'm doing this, you know, when you're not on television, you're also very popular for making viral dance videos with your grandma. Tell us how that all got started. Well, my grandma, 96 years young, ok, this year grandma here on 96 years young, believe this beautiful unreal. I keep her young with these dance movies, but you know, she's really a better dancer than me. So it's, it's right. We wiggle and we dance. That's right. Well, it's probably a great exercise for you as well. Right. Oh, yeah, great exercise. We keep you young. Graham. Show him a little something. 00, well, grandma, I gotta ask you, what do you think about all these viral videos? People all over the world have now seen you, millions of people see your dance moves. What do you think about that? Well, we, we have a lot of fun. We, we laugh, he comes into my backyard unexpected and he'll say grandma, we're gonna do this, we're gonna do that and we get hysterical laughing and she, you know what? She's got fans all over the world. Let me tell you, we post on tiktok and she calls me up. She goes, Nick, what are the fans saying today? Well, I gotta ask you what is the secret to staying so youthful at 96 year old? Still being able to dance and have all that energy movement, positive thinking, enjoying every moment of your life. That's it. Love, love the world, love people and a lot of great food. I'm sure because look, I've been trying to work up these dishes, but we wanna see some of the other signature dishes that you guys have here at the restaurant. Now that I've bam finished this one, I think I did pretty good. Who is that little chicken to top it off with? That looks good. All right, you got your brother Zach here. What did you bring for us, Zach? So today we have our signature filet. We have our grandmother's meatballs and then we have our signature chicken scarp. OK? Put that there and I'm gonna taste this because you gotta go get one more. I'm gonna taste the meal that we put together and see. Oh, you gotta get a lot of these, you gotta get there. It is there. It is. The pasta is too nice of these, right? B OK? What's this last one? This is our chicken Scarola. Wow, this is beautiful. I gotta taste this one. I'm all these meals and congratulations on your two year anniversary. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. So I gotta ask you with all this amazing food you guys have. What are the plans for Thanksgiving? You get together here at the restaurant? A big family dinner. What, you know what one of the most beautiful visions I've ever seen is my grandma, my mother and all my aunts in the kitchen just making magic. So we're not here at the restaurant when we try and try and get a little uh separation. Enjoy some quality family time. Right. Graham, we're big with the holidays. Are Italian our big loud Italian. So we're looking forward to the holidays for sure. Right. Graham. I'm looking at important things, family. I'm looking forward for more dance videos. So keep dancing, grandma. Let's dance a little bit more and enjoy some of this amazing food. Give me a little boo boo boo. Oh man. It is amazing actually. It actually really good. Oh, that was so much fun. And we even filmed some social media videos at Mr Shannon Lanier if you wanna check that out.

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