RecipeTin Eats’ Nagi Maehashi has broken her silence about being “entangled in a tragic situation” after triple murderer Erin Patterson told a jury she used Maehashi’s beef Wellington recipe for the fatal lunch with her in-laws in 2023.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, the chef requested the media “please stop calling and emailing and texting and DM’ing me” about the case.
“It is of course upsetting to learn that one of my recipes — possibly one I’ve spent more hours perfecting than any other — something I created to bring joy and happiness, is entangled in a tragic situation,” she wrote in an Instagram Story.
“Other than that, I have nothing to say and I won’t be talking to anyone. Thank you for respecting my privacy.”
The recipe came from RecipeTin Eats cookbook titled Dinner, which was among Australia’s best-selling titles in 2023. On her website, she explains it took “loads of attempts” to crack, but the result is “incredibly juicy, edge-to-edge rose pink beef encased in pastry boasting a flawlessly crispy base”.
During the trial, Patterson, 50, told the jury that she modified the recipe from Maehashi‘s cookbook to create the meal. She said it was a dish she was making for the first time, and wanted to try as something special for her lunch guests, as reported by The Guardian.
Maehashi’s recipe book was among a flurry of evidence photographed by police upon searching Patterson’s home in the days following the fatal lunch, with pictures released by the Supreme Court of Victoria after the verdict was delivered on Monday.
During the trial, child protection worker Katrina Cripps — who interviewed Patterson following the deadly lunch — recounted to the Supreme Court that Patterson said she prepared a beef Wellington, mashed potato, green beans and packet gravy.
“She said that she’d found it in a RecipeTin[Eats] cookbook, and that she wanted to do something new and special,” Cripps said, per ABC News.
Earlier this week, Patterson was found guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder by a 15-person jury in a Supreme Court trial in Morwell, Victoria.
Patterson was accused of killing her former in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson.
Wilkinson’s husband Ian — for whom Patterson was charged with attempted murder — became ill after the lunch in the Leongatha home, and spent several weeks in the hospital, however he survived the ordeal.
She remains in custody ahead of a plea hearing at a later date.
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