Is Marsala similar to port?

[CakeNinja]

Making a tiramisu and haven’t got enough Marsala so have topped it up with port. Smells similar, is it going to taste all wrong?!
To me, it tastes good in the mixture, will there be some very embarrassed faces sat round table at dinner tomorrow

Tawny port or ruby??

Did you taste it? Depends what kind of port and how much marsala you had, but it'll probably be fine. Sweet sherry or dessert wine would be fine.

It doesn’t say ruby or tawny! It’s just this one
I didn’t taste is but I did smell it...

Oh it’ll probably be fine!

Wow, that's going to be some high end dessert. Current price for that particular port is about £130 a bottle.

Booze is all good

Sherry would probably have been alright (it's basically posh trifle).

When I say ‘fine’ I mean

What the Hell other delights have you got planned for your guests if you’ve put such lovely expensive vintage port in the pudding?

Oh!!! I think dp must have got it for his 40th last year, he doesn’t really drink port so we use it for cooking
We are just having some friends round to say thank you for doing us a favour, you should see the size of the beef joint in our fridge - it’s like the one we get for Christmas to serve 20

Just googled it, you’re right - it is an expensive bottle of port

You'll be in trouble 😂 We have some vintage port here and I'm not allowed to touch it to cook with.

OMG make sure one of your guests for dinner didn’t give DH the port!

If they did, do NOT mention the oh ran out of marsala so used that horrible port anecdote!!

Anyone in our house that used vintage port for cooking would be in the doghouse for a long time btw.

No neither of them gave dp the port
He honestly won’t care, promise!!
I seem to remember him having to strain it or something and then saying because it was old it was probably ruined if it wasn’t drunk quickly (this was now over a year ago and he hasn’t had more than one glass)... this is how little we drink port.
It has been used in cooking though.
I reckon it’s going to be a banging tiramisu

I've just shown DH this thread and he is currently weeping in the corner.

You use.... that port.... for .... cooking????

Oh dear, people seem a little upset about the port abuse 🙈
Sorry guys, but I’m glad my pudding will taste okay!

Dp says he'll drive over and replace what's left with marsala if you'd like?

Sadly it’s a bit late now otherwise that would have been a handy swap!
The tiramisu is sitting ready in the fridge now. Cannot wait, it’s my all time favourite pudding when done well but so disappointing when you order one and it’s crap. Fingers crossed I haven’t bloody ruined it sticking port in...

CakeNinja, if it doesn’t taste right just get the rest of the port out and pass it round - no-one will care about the tiramisu!

Oddly, I was having to check the same thing yesterday - couldn’t find a bottle of Marsala anywhere (we were going to have pork saltimbocca for supper) and the general consensus online seems to be you can substitute sherry or port but nothing tastes quite like marsala. So we had pasta instead!

Maybe if you’re having a big dinner for friends have the port after dinner. Some of your friends might appreciate it

Yes, maybe I’ll aim to get everyone smashed and no one will notice my faux pas. I told dp I slugged the port in, he said “good thinking batman” - is most definitely not arsed about the port. Besides, I have read time and time again that you should only cook with alcohol you would drink, not really hideous cheap stuff so...

As a side, it’s not a big fancy dinner, they’re our best friends and would think we’d lost our minds if we were having a ‘dinner party’ - they are coming later with their dog, we are all going out for a walk and a stop off at a pub somewhere and then coming back here for a roast and a blinding pudding!

I think we used the Marsala last when we had saltimbocca Raglan - One of our favourites!

Well, you can tell your friends you are serving the world's most expensive tiramisu

Well the tiramisu was a success
I offered everyone a glass of port to go with it but they declined.
The guests didn’t guess that I’d done a bodge job of it, and if they did, they didn’t say!

Yes yes yes, yes I did! Dp maintains it needs chucking because it was corked and needed drinking quickly because he sieved it or some such nonsense. Neither of us know anything about bloody port but it tasted fine in a pudding 😋

Sieved! Can neither of you google?

It needed decanting of the sediment normal for a highly desirable vintage port.

Fucking corked indeed. Heathens.