UFO Ravioli with Black Poplar mushrooms

Especially in Scotland the Fall is one of those seasons that lasts for 12 month a year. So, even if it is full July, two days ago, a thick fog came in from the sea and suddenly the town vanished inside this incredible cloud.

Edinburgh castle with a woolen fog scarf

In Italy, the fair city of Ferrara (still in Emilia-Romagna, but close to Veneto) has a similar problem: in some days of the year, when the fog is too obnoxious for driving even cycling is discouraged or even forbidden. There is the serious risk that people may bump across others causing severe accidents and the police officers won't find them in the mist, albeit they are following the moanings.

Ferrara lamps and random pedestrians,

lost in translation 

(from the Latin translatio)

And Fall reminds me, of course, of one of my favorite aliments: mushrooms. I prefer wild mushrooms, but sometimes I also indulge in cultivated ones: a specie I enormously worship is that called agrocybe aegerita, that mortals may call Black Popular mushroom. They are close in resemblance to Honey mouhrooms, and they are excellent with fresh-egg pasta (tagliatelle, UFO ravioli, tortelloni).
The recipe I am suggesting today won my friends approbation:

After having rolled out the pastry, 

obtain these disks using a glass!

Fill with ricotta cheese, 

grated Parmigiano, 

and chopped basil leaves,

black pepper, salt and nutmeg.

Don't they look like UFO ravioli:

the grooves are made with a fork.

Dress them with Black Poplar mushrooms,

previously cooked according to your pleasure,

but feel free to ask which my recipe was.