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CHUBBY’S $ When looking for a restaurant to have breakfast, lunch or dinner, we all want a place that serves up variety, hearty helpings and even bigger portions of friendliness. The Touris family has developed a recipe that delivers all of the above at a good price. With four locations in the Metroplex, Chubby’s Family Restaurant provides a rustic setting with down home cooking. Catering available. Locations: 11331 E. NW Hwy. 214-348-6065 and 7474 S. Cockrell Hill Rd. 972-298-1270..

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July around here is known for two things — the course, and heat. The average high temperature 95, and the record high for every day is 105 or month’s 31 days.

So why do so many wine drinkers insist on drinking red wines for holiday picnics and backyard barbecues July? Your guess is as good as mine. Those wines, their high alcohols and rough tannins, sound pleasant as sitting on the roof during a July afternoon.

The explanation that I usually get from red drinkers who insist on red wine even though it makes the sweat bead on their foreheads is that they like white wine. You can’t argue with that, and know because I have tried and failed. Instead, I learned to recommend red wines that offer the wine qualities they like, such as dark fruit without trace of sweetness, without the qualities that make big red wines so unpleasant in hot weather.

Generally, these wines aren’t always from the known parts of California (or California at all). yet, because they aren’t always from the best-known parts of California, they are often inexpensive almost always offer good value. These three are just start and are all available at Central Market:

This red blend from the Rhone region of France, mostly grenache, is and well-balanced (think red fruits) with some black pepper. Given how cute the name and label are garden fence, while jardin means garden in French), it’s surprisingly good. Put this in the refrigerator 20 or 30 minutes to cool it down, and drink it any kind of grilled beef.

Riccardo

Cotarella, who oversees this line of Italian wines, genius. The Falescos are always cheap, always made, and always deliver value. The sangiovese cherry fruit, acid and even some minerality, and head and shoulders above similarly priced Chianti. Drink this with smoked chicken or most roasted vegetables.

This red blend from Portugal is one of the great secrets of the cheap wine business. It has lots of raisiny fruit — think of it as much lighter version of an Australian shiraz. It’s suitable for porch sipping and hamburgers.

—JEFF SIEGEL

JEFF SIEGEL’SWEEKLYWINE REVIEWS

appear every Wednesday on the Advocate Back Talk blog, lakehighlands.advocatemag.com/blog.

WITH YOUR WINE Chicken breast in lemon juice and olive oil

What better to grill than chicken breasts marinated in the ingredients in which chicken breasts were made to be marinated? Plus, it involves pounding the breasts (use a rolling pin), and that is always therapeutic. The Côté Jardin, despite being red, would pair nicely with this.

Serves four, takes about 20 minutes (Courtesy of Barb Freda)

4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Olive oil

Juice from one lemon

2 cloves crushed garlic

A couple of stems of fresh rosemary

Salt and pepper to taste

1. Pound the breasts until very thin. Place in a Zip-loc bag.

2. Add olive oil, lemon juice, the crushed garlic, fresh rosemary, salt and pepper. Marinate in the refrigerator until dinnertime. Remove and grill until the chicken is done.

ask the WINE GUY?

WHY DO WE CALL THE WINE SANGIOVESE, AND THEITALIANS CALL IT CHIANTI?

In Europe, wine is labeled by the region it’s from, so sangiovese made in Chianti (which is in Tuscany) is called Chianti, just as red wine made in Burgundy is called red Burgundy. In the United States we label wines by grape, so it’s sangiovese and pinot noir.

—JEFF SIEGEL

ASK THE WINE GUY taste@advocatemag.com

STORY BY CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

PHOTOS BY CAN TÜRKYILMAZ

Advocate readers were asked to send in photos of their pets. We received droves of darling doggie pics — pointyeared Dobies, droopy-eyed hounds, mussed-up mutts and dogs wearing clothes (which never gets old). The following is but a sampling of the sundry submissions

NAME: Clovis

BREED: (maybe has a little) basset hound (in him)

PARENTS: Diane and Andy Combs; Allison, Sarah and Caroline Combs are his human sisters

AGE: 4-ish

A few years back, Clovis won “The Mug Only a Mom Could Love” bracket at the annual Cotton Bowl Dog Bowl. Well-earned his owners describe him as “vertically challenged, with scruffy fur, short legs and an enormous head that doesn’t look like it fits his body,” and love him dearly anyway. Funny looks did not deter the Combs family from embracing sweet-natured Clovis, and neither did his checkered past. When they adopted Clovis from the Richardson animal shelter, he had already been adopted and returned, which, notes Diane Combs, “must have been the ultimate walk of shame” for the pup. “His file said he was an ‘excitable urinater’ — not what you want on your résumé — but we never had that problem once we got him home.” Mondays through Saturdays, Clovis’s world revolves around waiting for the mail. “He barks like crazy at the mailman, specifically, and he puts most other visitors on alert. He’s a good guard dog, but he’s a wimp,” Diane says. “He will bark at you while he’s running away.” He loves sitting on top of his doghouse, a la Snoopy, and running circles around the backyard. Says Diane, “He’s surprisingly fast, for having such stubby legs.”

THANK YOU, READERS,

for your enthusiastic response to our pet cover contest! We received photos of so many cute animals, and unfortunately, didn’t have enough space to publish them all. Keep a lookout for additional photos in the “Pet Pause” segment in future issues of the Advocate

If you didn’t enter the contest but think your pet should be in print, send a photo via email to editor@advocatemag.com or snail mail to 6301 Gaston Ave., Suite 820, Dallas, 75214. Make sure to include your name, zip code, phone number, pet’s name and a brief description of the photo.

Name: Gracie

Breed: golden retriever

Pare N t: Tammy Sherwood d OB: About six months before she was rescued on Oct. 17, 2007

Admiring Gracie’s shiny coat or gazing into her gentle eyes, one would never guess that she was found, flea and tick infested, wandering the streets of Irving, Texas (or that she’d once snatched a poor parakeet out of mid-air). The 6-month-old golden retriever had been hit by a car and was injured, but not too severely. Gracie’s rescuer doctored and groomed her, but couldn’t keep her or find a rescue orga- nization to take her, so she put the word out in an attempt to get Gracie a permanent home. When she heard about it from a friend in Irving, Tammy Sherwood, who lives in Lake Highlands and works at Southern Methodist University, and her other Labrador, Cooper, happily welcomed Gracie to the family. “They are like soul mates,” Sherwood says of the two canines. “They play and sleep together. I can’t remember what life was like before Gracie.” The semi-tragic parakeet incident, in which Gracie nabbed Sherwood’s in-flight pet parakeet, was sad, but Sherwood concedes, “That’s what retrievers do”. Gracie’s greatest talent is “power counter surfing,” says Sherwood. “This is where she drinks the Thanksgiving gravy and eats butter and that kind of thing off kitchen counters.”

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Name: Tristan

Breed: English bulldog

Pare N ts: Elizabeth Ginn and John McCormick a ge: 5

Tristan the English bulldog is afraid of laundry baskets (“he barks at them and runs away,” his owner says) and despises walks. “He hates grass,” Elizabeth Ginn explains, “and he will fight it as soon as you put the leash on him.” And at 65 pounds, this pup’s not going anywhere he doesn’t want to go. His grass aversion turned to adoration, however, when Lake Highlands last February saw several inches of fluffy white stuff. “He got out in the backyard and played and played in the snow,” Ginn says. For the most part, indoor games are Tristan’s thing.

He loves run, hide and seek (we run from room to room and he chases us and finds us). And he likes to play “fighting bull”. This is where his owners hold up a newspaper, and he runs through it “like when the football team runs through a banner before the game.” The only problem with this, Ginn says, is that sometimes when his owners are simply enjoying the Sunday paper, he comes barreling through it. Ginn’s fiancé, John McCormick, owned Tristan’s mother, whom he got in Alabama. When he moved to Texas, he brought Tristan, who was one of a litter of 10. She has always been a dog person. “I had a loveable mutt and a pug when I was growing up,” she says. But she didn’t have a dog when she met McCormick, so Tristan is an only pup.

Name: Bridget and Skycam

Breed: greyhounds

Pare N t’s N ame: Molly Cain a ge: 6 and 9

Before making themselves at home on Molly Cain’s couch, greyhounds Bridget “Whirlwind Jill” and Skycam had a racing career. While living in an Austin apartment, Cain adopted Bridget from the Greyhound Adoption League of Texas because greyhounds, despite their size (Bridget and “Cam” are 62 and 70 pounds, respectively), they make good apartment dogs, she says. After moving to Lake Highlands, Cain’s veterinarian talked her into becoming a foster parent to retired greyhounds. “Cam was a failed foster assignment,” Cain says with a laugh. “He’ll put his legs around you, like he’s hugging you, and will stay that way for hours if you let him. That’s partly why I had to keep him.” Though the dogs are content cuddling for long stretches, they haven’t forfeited their racing roots. They’ve run a racetrack into the backyard, for one thing. “They will run a perfect circle, side by side, so much that they have created a permanent groove in the grass,” Cain explains. “I guess it reminds them of their glory days.” They also entertain crowds at the White Rock Dog Park by doing the same. Bridget ran 50 races during her career (she was what you might call a long shot, Cain says). Skycam was fast, competing in more than 90 races, but his career was cut short by a broken paw. No worries though, because they are undoubtedly happy where they are. “They hog the big couch and make me use the love seat,” their owner says. “But they just seem so grateful to have a home. It’s neat to adopt a dog with a racing history and watch them experience life outside a crate for the first time — their first time seeing a TV or hearing the dishwasher run. They are just the most loving animals I’ve ever come in contact with.”

Name: Gizmo

Breed: (maybe part) Basenji a ge: 6

Pare N ts’ N ames: Michelle Russell and Michelle’s parents Susan and Don Russell

What happens when a Baylor University student adopts a college-town pound puppy before she finishes traveling the world? Said puppy winds up with the college student’s parents. That’s OK with Susan and Don Russell, whose daughter Michelle (who now heads up Lake Highlands Young Life) several years ago rescued Gizmo from a shelter in Waco. Fortunately, Gizmo is easygoing — except when it comes to chasing squirrels sociable, and loves water sports. Full-

Name: Garbo

Breed: miniature schnauzer

Pare N t: Brenda Homan a ge: 3

Three-year old Garbo, named for Hollywood icon Greta Garbo, is a good dog, momma Brenda Homan says. But it wasn’t always that way. Like her namesake, Garbo was wel-known, especially along her Lake Highlands street, but unlike the silent-movie starlet, the schnauzer was anything but quiet. Neighbors knew this Garbo for her incessant yapping, Homan admits. She credits the site barkbusters.com for helping her learn to break Garbo of the habit (“They worked magic,” she says). “Now she’ll start to bark at the front door, and I’ll stop her. But she still wants to bark. She minds, but then instead of barking she’ll make this funny ‘yaw, yaw, yaw’ sound.” Garbo is cuddly, especially in the morning, her owner says. “She’ll lay her neck over my neck, and I’ll talk to her. I think she likes the vibration … it’s also similar to the way puppies in a litter lay across each other, so it might have something to do with that.” Garbo loves walks, but not when it’s icy. “I tried to let her out in the snow, and she looked at me like I was crazy.” blooded Basenjis are barkless dogs, says Susan Russell. “Gizmo is part Basenji and Michelle can get her to ‘speak’ in this funny sounding yawn-yelp-type voice. She does bark occasionally, but usually just at the UPS man.” The Russells frequently take Gizmo to the lake where she mingles with other mutts — “at the lake where we keep our boat, everyone has a dog. They all get together and start barking, and Gizmo just kind of looks at them,” Susan says. She loves hopping on a float in the water or riding on the boat. To compliment her attractive disposition, Gizmo is a physical beauty. Basenji’s were prolific in ancient Egypt, explains Susan. “Sometimes her profile looks like something out of Egyptian hieroglyphics.”

The city’s high-priority projects

The redesign of the Garland Road spillway, arguably White Rock Lake’s most recognizable and idyllic attraction, is finished. Next spring, Dallas will celebrate the lake’s centennial, marked by the original completion of the spillway in 1911. Though it is a cornerstone of progress at the signature park, the spillway renovation — a $16.7 million effort that includes new retaining walls, trail and parking lot improvements, and fresh signage and landscaping to name a few — is only one of several White Rock Lake projects that the City of Dallas has planned for the near and distant future. Late last year, the Park Department, along with the White Rock Lake Conservancy, a fundraising organization whose board members promise to help raise funds for the projects, presented the top 10 priorities. Here’s a look at each project, what it will cost, and where it stands.

Better trail access and revamped parking lots are part of the East Lawther Trail improvement project.

All three phases of the East Lawther Trail project will include parking lot improvements, new parking lots and trail entry marker additions. The City of Dallas, from the previous bond program, allocated $1.8 million for phase one of the trail and parking reconstruction, for the area from Mockingbird Point to the Bath House Cultural Center. The total estimated cost for this phase is $3.8 million. The plan is to rebuild the existing trail, and revamp parts that are unused and broken up (the stretch up Boy Scout Hill, for example) rather than building a new trail along the shoreline (as the city did along the west side of the lake). Also included in phase one is a pedestrian overpass from Mockingbird Bridge to Boy Scout Hill, and native grassland designation for certain areas.

Phase two will encompass the area from the Bath House to Lake Highlands Drive. This phase includes improvements to the Big Thicket area the building and playground will remain, but playground improvements, trail access and new picnic stations are in store. Phase two costs are estimated at $1.5 million, and as yet no money is allocated for it.

Phase three focuses on the area from Lake Highlands Drive to Emerald Isle, and includes a planned sailing club parking zone near the Corinthian Sailing Club, and boat ramp improvements. The estimated cost for phase three is $1.9. $7.2 million more is needed in order to make all three phases happen. Despite needing much more money, the city has moved ahead with the design, Winters says.