This column is all about making over recipes that readers love so that they are a lot more healthful and usually easier to prepare. But every now and then I like to do my own thing and create a recipe just for the fun of it.

This homemade personal pan pizza recipe was created in the Magee family kitchen one evening in honor of St. Patrick's Day. I tried to make it as green and Irish as possible — I even used beer in the bread dough. Just make sure your cheese isn't green.

This is designed for bread-making machines. Or make your preferred dough using half whole wheat flour by conventional methods.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY PIZZA

For dough:

• 1 cup warm beer plus 2 tablespoons, 110 to 120 degrees (nonalcoholic or light beer can be used) — warm in microwave

• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

• 10 drops green food coloring (optional)

• 1 tablespoon sugar

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour

• 1 1/2 cups unbleached white flour

• 1 packet (1/4-ounce) active dry, bread machine, or rapid rise yeast

For sauce:

• About 6 tablespoons pesto sauce (such as Armanino frozen pesto)

• 2 cups shredded part-skim mozzarella (or other Italian cheese mixture)

Assorted green toppings as desired such as:

• Green onions, chopped

• Zucchini, thinly sliced

• Broccoli florets, chopped

• Green pepper, chopped or thinly sliced

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Set bread machine to the "dough" cycle. Place pizza dough ingredients in the bread machine pan in the order listed (except make a well in the center of the flour and add the yeast at the end. Press start.

When dough has completed the dough cycle (about 1 hour 40 minutes), remove dough from bread machine pan and divide into 4 pieces. On a flat surface dusted with flour, take one piece of the dough and flatten it out evenly from the center until it measures about 8 to 10 inches in diameter. Repeat with remaining 3 dough balls. Place pizza crust on a nonstick jellyroll pan or two baking sheets.

Spread 1 1/2 tablespoons of pesto over each pizza crust and top each with 1/2 cup of cheese and assorted green toppings as desired.

Bake for about 10 minutes or until crust is golden brown and cheese is bubbly. Enjoy!

• Per personal pizza (4 large servings per recipe) not including green toppings: 596 calories, 29 g protein, 75 g carbohydrate, 20 g fat, 7 g saturated fat, 10 g monounsaturated fat, 3 g polyunsaturated fat, 33 mg cholesterol, 8 g fiber, 900 mg sodium. Calories from fat: 30 percent. Omega-3 fatty acids = .2 g, Omega-6 fatty acids = 1.2 g. Weight Watchers POINTS = 12