I almost always make a batch of turkey enchiladas when I cook a turkey. I’ve posted my recipe for turkey enchiladas on the main CheapCooking site so I won’t repeat it here. You can use canned enchilada sauce of course, but I find the homemade sauce just as good and it gives me the flexibility to just keep cans of tomato sauce in the pantry. With a can of tomato sauce, I can make enchilada sauce or spaghetti sauce, whichever I need.

Tonight, I chopped up the turkey and grated the cheese as the sauce heated up. I always think it’s better if it’s simmered a bit. I dipped the first corn tortilla in the sauce, laid it on a plate, put a bit of chopped turkey and grated cheese–but when I went to roll it up the tortilla just fell apart.

Then I remembered. I put all the tortillas in my cheap little Styrofoam tortilla warmer and popped it in the microwave for a couple of minutes. The tortillas were perfectly softened and rolled up easily.