Lab Week!

This is National Laboratories Professional Week.

We celebrate with FOOD!

Tomorrow is our potluck I am bringing:

Mexican Corn Pudding
1 box blue corn jalapeno corn bread mix
1 bag roasted corn
1 jar corn/chili salsa
2 eggs
and 1 onion and red pepper sauted in butter! A whole stick!
Mix and spread in dish, I used my blue round cassarole dish.
Spread a layer of sour cream over mixture
Sprinkle with cheese.
(I bought everything at Trader Joe's)

Bake until it no longer jiggles in the center and the cheese is toasty brown. About 70 minutes.

Since I kind of made up the recipe, I had to make a little side dish for us to try. It was very interesting, lots of flavors and a bit of a minor bite of spice. I would make it again for a pass a dish dinner.

FYI
There are approximately 300,000 practitioners of clinical laboratory science in the United States. Since the development of this career group in the 1920s, the clinical laboratory science professional has played an increasingly vital role in the diagnosis and prevention of disease. Today, the clinical laboratorian is a key member of a health care team.

As team members of one of the largest industries in the United States, the dedicated efforts of laboratory professionals often go unnoticed by the general public, as well as by the very institutions employing their services. With the public now demanding the assurance of quality health care and professional accountability, organizations representing practitioners of this critical science have a responsibility to ensure that the public is well informed about clinical laboratory competency.

Beyond meeting this public need, the celebration of NMLW will help increase recognition for the profession as it improves the individual practitioner's sense of self-worth. Further, as the various professional groups within laboratory practice work together on this project, the sense of unity and purpose necessary to further the goals of all laboratorians are reinforced.