Blue Cheese Pineapple Salad (for the Armchair Activist)

Pineapple and blue cheese really seems like an unlikely combination. I was in bed, going over in my mind the contents of the refrigerator and what I could make for dinner. Lately, we have been trying to eat up the everything before we go shopping. If you stretch it out like this you really are saving a significant amount of money, not to mention how much food is thrown out and wasted by the average family on a regular basis. When we recently moved across the province, we pledged to eat the entire contents of our refrigerator; we were able to eat (in fairly high style I might add) for about two weeks, highlighting the fact when you think that there's nothing to eat you'd be surprised.....
I hate to ring that old bell again, but there are starving children in the world. Food is soo convenient and sooo cheap in our part of the world. My husband illustrates it quite nicely when we come home from a big grocery shop with 15 bags of groceries. He says he always wonders how long he would have to forage to get this amount of food....probably quite a while.
So with these thoughts and my armchair activism in mind, the unlikely combination for this salad occured to me: simply because they were two of the only things I could think of left in my kitchen. I decided to google it, which is my way of safeguarding my family against my unbridled creativty in the kitchen (also against that coffee buzz in the morning that occasionally shines too much optimism on a bad idea).I figured if I could find one dish with these two ingredients, I would give it a whirl. There really was only a few hits on this combination which is rare considering you can usually find almost any flavour combo you can think of. So I courageously gave it a whirl and the results were pleasantly surprising.
Once again, this recipe was hubby approved. I topped it off with some quick buffalo chicken drumsticks (which I won't give you the recipe for because - ahem ahem, dirty little secret - they were from a packet, please don't judge me!) But, the blue cheese salad did nicely complement the wings and it made for a super easy, quick and delicious dinner....

Pineapple Express: Blue Cheese and Pineapple Salad with Almonds

Salad:

2 cups chopped romaine
2 cups chopped iceburg
200 g crumbled blue cheese
3/4 can pineapple
1/4 cup chopped almonds
1/4 cup chopped spanish onion

Dressing:

1/4 cup olive oil
1 TBSP white wine vinegar
1 tsp red wine vinegar
2 tsp honey
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp white pepper