Australian mushroom lunch cook tells trial meal was 'special'On Friday, the court heard it was "unusual" for Ms Patterson to host such an event at her house, and she was quizzed about her relationships with her guests. But prosecutors argue Ms Patterson put poisonous fungi into their food in a carefully crafted plot to kill them. An Australian woman accused of intentionally cooking a fatal mushroom lunch has told her trial she had wanted the beef Wellington meal to be "special". Simon Patterson, the accused's estranged spouse, had been invited too, but pulled out the day before. "Even after you were discharged from hospital you did not tell a single person that there may have been foraged mushroom used in the meal," Dr Rogers said.