One of the things I do when cooking is I look at several different recipes for the same dish. I take a "base" recipe "A" and add these ingredients from recipe "B" and maybe even a unique ingredient from recipe "C." By doing this I often get the best of all the recipes I am combining.   A friend of mine said that she thought my cooking was "fusion" is this the right term?    
Never use steel wool on teflon-coated pans!!!   You surely have scratched and damaged the teflon and some of it came off the pan.  I'd throw it away. 