I definitely did not follow the recipe exactly, as I often cook that way... And it turned out fabulously! I down sized it for individual meal (& left overs for 1) and with a new breville pro oven I figured I couldn't go to wrong. I added in rotel tomatoes as I didn't have enough cans of totamotes and that gave it some spice, nor did I have a dutch oven and so used the next best thing - crockpot to cook the meat.