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I love making Ina Garten's soup recipes, especially during the winter season.Jeff Neira/Walt Disney Television via Getty ImagesIna Garten has published many soup recipes, and I've made half a dozen from her repertoire so far.Her tomato soup with grilled cheese croutons is super easy to make and perfect for all ages.Garten's chicken pot pie soup, inspired by the classic comfort dish, takes my top spot.After cooking my way through Ina Garten's comforting pastas, energizing breakfasts, and delectable desserts, it was time for a new challenge.As George Costanza would say, I was ready to "shift into soup mode."Garten has dozens of soup recipes, and I've been slowly making my way through her repertoire. Each soup in this ranking is delicious — what else would you expect from the Barefoot Contessa? — but I definitely have some clear favorites.Here's how they all stack up.In sixth place is Ina Garten's winter minestrone soup.Anneta Konstantinides/Business InsiderGarten's minestrone soup appears in her 2012 cookbook "Foolproof." In the recipe's description, she calls it an "incredibly hearty winter soup" that "falls somewhere between a soup and a stew."The soup is packed with tons of vegetables — baby spinach, butternut squash, celery, carrots, garlic, and onion — plus cannellini beans, pancetta, pesto, Parmesan, and fresh thyme.It requires a lot of chopping and prep, but all those veggies provide plenty of heft.Garten's winter minestrone soup is packed with color and texture.Anneta Konstantinides/Business InsiderFull transparency, if I had to rank my favorite soups in the world, minestrone would always be at the bottom of the list. Most minestrone soups I've tried have been lackluster and forgettable, but Garten's version is a commendable effort.The chopped tomatoes and pancetta bring some richness to the broth, while the rainbow of veggies provides plenty of color and texture. I loved the pops of freshness from the spinach and thyme, and the salty kick from the Parmesan on top.While it's not my favorite Barefoot Contessa recipe, Garten's winter minestrone soup is healthy and hearty.How to make Ina Garten's winter minestrone soup.Rounding out the top five is Garten's Italian wedding soup.Anneta Konstantinides/Business InsiderGarten loves putting a new twist on classic recipes, and her Italian wedding soup is no different. Featured in Garten's 2008 cookbook "Back to Basics," the recipe features meatballs made with a mixture of ground chicken and chicken sausage instead of the traditional beef or pork.The recipe also includes small pasta — Garten recommends tubettini or stars — carrots, celery, fresh dill, baby spinach, and her homemade chicken stock.The chicken meatballs are a delicious twist in Garten's Italian wedding soup.Anneta Konstantinides/Business InsiderGarten says using homemade chicken stock "makes all the difference in the world" for this recipe, and I definitely agree.Her delicious stock infuses this dish with depth, giving the broth richness without making it heavy. This allows the soup to taste light and fresh, especially with the added burst of dill. The chicken meatballs were full of great flavor. I just wish I had made them a tad smaller!Garten's Italian wedding soup isn't as memorable as other recipes on this list, but it's a great dish for rainy nights.How to make Ina Garten's Italian wedding soup.Garten's chicken chili takes the fourth spot.Anneta Konstantinides/Business InsiderGarten made traditional chili for 20 years at the famous specialty food store that launched her cooking career (and gave her the iconic "Barefoot Contessa" nickname). But she decided to update the chili with chicken to make it lighter, which became even more popular than the original dish.The soup — which is featured in Garten's 2001 cookbook "Barefoot Contessa Parties!" — features chicken breasts, red and yellow bell peppers, onion, garlic, fresh basil, plus toppings including green onions, sour cream, and grated cheddar cheese.Garten's…

The author moved from the US to Wales 15 years ago.Courtesy of the authorMoving overseas meant living far from my mom for most of my adult life. Staying close across an ocean takes effort, grief, and resilience. Saying goodbye never gets easier, even after 15 years. I just said goodbye to my mom after having three weeks with her. She made the journey from North Carolina to see me, her oldest daughter, in Wales.Fifteen years ago, I met a Welsh boy, fell in love, and moved my just-starting-out adult life to the UK, not having the foresight to realize what a huge decision this was.How do you know, at just 22, that making a transatlantic move will not just change the course of the next couple of years, but of your entire life?My mom understood the goodbye more than I didI remember how tearful my mom had been upon my leaving all those years ago. I, too, of course, cried, but she really cried. She understood, given her years of life lived, I would almost definitely never be moving back. My goodbye, now looking back, was fleeting; hers was permanent.In the early days of living in Wales, I remember calling her on Skype once a week, because we didn't have constant access to each other as we do now. I was often crying, telling her how hard I found adulting.When I had my three kids, each two years apart, I felt a deep longing for my mom. Not someone to do the laundry, clean the dishes, or have the baby for me in the night. I could do all of this — I was and still am fiercely independent.I wanted her to just sit with me. And I know she wanted exactly the same.We both felt the pangs of being apart, because it only feels fitting that the woman who carried and gave birth to you should also be there when you do the same. And to be there in those months after, when postnatal depression and severe fatigue kick in.I got through even these wearisome years of having very young babies and toddlers, not unscathed, but I made it.We talk daily Since then, my conversations with her have become more frequent. We text daily on WhatsApp and ring each other a few times a week. I tell her nearly everything, and want to hear all that's happening with her, both of us exchanging stories from our days and weeks. And this oftentimes feels like enough to maintain a beautiful connection. It is our pattern to maintain a close relationship, although we only see each other, if we're lucky, once a year.But even this in-person connection is never guaranteed. Due to the pandemic and then my high-risk pregnancy, I wasn't able to visit the US for nearly five years, and in that time, she was only able to visit twice.When I do travel to the US to visit, it now costs me my ticket plus three others, not an easy feat on a budget.For her to travel here, she, a 63-year-old woman whose back isn't brilliant, has to make a very long flight and then a car ride, first here and then back.Seeing each other isn't easy. It isn't popping in for Sunday dinner after church. It isn't nipping over to celebrate a holiday or birthday.It's so hard living away from my momThe hardest thing of all about living in a different country, separated by an ocean and a five-hour time zone, is that when I've had a crap day, other than my husband, she is the first person I want to talk to. And I can't always do that, although she makes every effort to be available when she can.The author spent three weeks over the holidays with her momCourtesy of the authorSo for those three weeks over Christmas when she was here, we both soaked up each other's company, not knowing when we'd have it again. Although I must admit we annoyed each other for the first couple of days, trying to adapt to each other's rhythms and ways after being apart for so long.And when she left, it felt like I walked into a wall that hit me with all the reminders of how hard it is living away from my mom.I had a little cry, as I often do once she leaves, and then I did what she has always taught me by example — I counted my blessings, recounted…

One version of the red hats opposing Donald Trump's threats to take over Greenland.Thomas Traasdahl/ReutersOnline sellers are offering red hats printed with "Make America Go Away."The protest comes as President Trump threatens to take over Greenland.The founder of a Greenland group raising money for charity said the US is buying most of its hats.A new kind of MAGA hat is gaining popularity online.Several sellers are now offering red hats printed with all-caps white lettering that says "Make America Go Away."Designed to parody the trademark headwear of the Make America Great Again political movement, the protest comes as President Donald Trump ramps up threats to seize the territory.The founder of one group selling the hats, Victor Schøtt of Greenland Support, told Business Insider the design is more about rejecting Trump's particular style of foreign relations and less about a dislike for America itself."The Donald Trump America needs to stay away — the part that's trying to take over Greenland," Schøtt said.Trump ramped up his campaign for the Danish territory over the weekend with threats of 25% tariffs and a message to Norway's prime minister — a key Nordic and Arctic ally — warning that "I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace."Schøtt said he launched his site about a month ago, and sales have grown to a few hundred hats per week, with the US taking the largest share."The United States is first with around 50 orders the last couple of days, then we have Denmark with 45, and then we have Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Sweden at around 20 each," he said of the MAGA designs.The site also sells a design that says "Nu det NUUK," a pun that roughly translates from Danish as "That's enough" using the name of Greenland's capital, Nuuk. Both designs were reportedly seen Saturday on the heads of protesters in Nuuk and Copenhagen.All profits go to support a Greenlandic children's charity, Schøtt said.Other riffs on the original MAGA phrasing have also cropped up in the first year of Trump's second term, with hats saying "Make America Gay Again," "Make NATO Great Again," and "Make America Normal Again" available from various shops online.Read the original article on Business Insider