welcome back to Melba's thank you this is Lisa I need to make chicken waffles sherry you have a seat we'll be back come on let's go cook girl this is where the magic is happening we are making Sherri Shepherd's favorite dish how did the idea of chicken and waffles come together that's what we started right here in Arlen there's a restaurant or by the name of mr. wells he had a lot of jazz musicians that would come in three four or five o'clock in the morning some of them wanted breakfast and someone wanted dinner so he put together southern fried chicken and waffles and it was a huge hit is it a huge hit here Melvin it's an amazing hit I actually slayed the Flay iron chef Bobby Flay with my signature Southern Fried Chicken and eggnog while both what do we need to make this farm-raised chicken here and then let me get some seasoning I'd prefer the five-spice let's be generous with the seasoning black pepper again that's right let's marinated I guess our best friend let me get some that smoked paprika look at that color don't ever be stingy with the seasoning unless it's salt because when you put too much salt there's nothing you can do about that and there's from car look yeah some buttermilk keeps it really nice and moist lesson you want his try chicken so we're gonna put this on the side and we're gonna let it marinate now for the waffles we're gonna mix our dry ingredients first and then we're gonna mix our wet ingredients take our all-purpose flour and then we're gonna take some sugar some cinnamon and here we have nutmeg you want to make sure that we get that sugar and that nutmeg is cinnamon from every part of that flour now we're going to mix the wet ingredients 4 eggs 1/2 and 1/2 1/3 of the heavy cream the eggnog and then we have some organic vanilla extract you want the eggs to still have a nice consistency you still want them to have a body 4 teaspoons of butter and that's unsalted butter I can't wait to try to you know jump you are no Joe yeah all right love leg is gonna be a marriage between our wet ingredients in our dry ingredients I'm big on taste and when you come here I want you to really taste flavors of the eggnog that sits for a minute one day it's gonna help the flower to stick a little bit it gives it a nice coating a nice bready I love that crispy and crunchiness right yeah now I need the brown paper bag what does this paper bag have to do with your chicken it's the best way to really coat my chicken this is the way to go this is the way to go just shake it up now you're gonna take your chicken one piece at a time beautiful you did it a cute way so you see how that chicken is really coated evenly that's what you get when you use the brown paper bag that's what my mother did that's what my grandmother did I'm gonna deep-fry this chicken and then I'm gonna head over and do the waffles it's gonna take about 2 and 1/2 minutes I'll meet you back in the day all right being ready to eat