I received J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's The Wok for Christmas and am working my way through it. I thought it'd be fun to keep a log of the recipes and how they went.

I have no rules for this. I will skip recipes that do not look appealing to me, but I will try to be adventurous. At first I was skipping the spicy recipes because I know the kids would not eat them, but I have shifted strategy there and will offer them a fried egg instead. If I know that even my wife would not enjoy it, I will probably skip that recipe.

Here are the recipes I have done so far:

1. Velvet Chicken with Snap Peas and Lemon-Ginger Sauce
2. Pico’s Not-So-Bland Chicken
3. Gong Bao Ji Ding (Sichuan Chicken with Peanuts)
4. Chicken with Basil, Chiles, and Fish Sauce
5. Shredded Chicken with Pickled Chiles and Carrots
6. Pickled Chiles
7. Sliced Pork with Chives
8. Stir-Fried Kimchi Pork
9. Better-Than-My-Mom’s Chungking Pork
10. Sichuan Double-Cooked Pork Belly
11. Sliced Pork and Cucumber
12. Moo Shu (Moo Shi) Mushrooms
13. Mandarin Pancakes
14. Thai-Style Stir-Fried Ground Pork with Basil (Pad Bai Horapa or Pad Ka-Prao)
15. Extra-Crispy Fried Eggs
16. Nam Pla Prik
17. Beef with Broccoli
18. Ginger Beef (with or without Snow Peas)
19. Shredded Beef with Hot Peppers and Chiles
20. Thai-Style Beef with Basil and Fish Sauce
21. Fried Shallots
22. Pepper Steak
23. Cumin Lamb
24. Stir-Fried Fish with Wood Ear, Celery, and Oyster Sauce
25. Stir-Fried Fish with Ginger and Scallions
26. Peel-and-Eat Shrimp with Garlic, Scallions, and Chiles
27. Soy and Fragrant Oil Dipping Sauce
28. Kung Pao Shrimp
29. Shrimp- or Fish-Stuffed Chiles in Black Bean Sauce
30. Slippery Egg with Mushrooms
31. Shrimp with Lobster Sauce
32. Creamy Layered Scrambled Eggs (Whampoa Eggs)
33. Home-Style Tomato and Scrambled Eggs
34. Stir-Fried Corn and Mushrooms with Hot Peppers and Soy Butter
35. Khai Jiao (Thai-Style Omelet)
36. Tiger-Skin Peppers
37. Sichuan-Style Blistered Green Beans
38. Soy-Glazed Mushrooms
39. Hot and Numbing Spice Blend
40. Stir-Fried New Potatoes with Hot and Numbing Spices
41. Korean Stir-Fried Shredded Potatoes (Gamjachae Bokkeum)
42. Sichuan-Style Hot and Sour Stir-Fried Shredded Potatoes
43. Cantonese-Style Clams in Black Bean Sauce
44. Sichuan-Style Fish-Fragrant Eggplant
45. Stir-Fried Eggplant with Sake and Miso
46. Slippery Egg with Beef
47. Clams with Garlic, Sake, and Butter
48. Stir-Fried Kabocha Squash with Sake and Miso
49. Smoky Bok Choy with Garlic Sauce
50. Stir-Fried Napa Cabbage with Vinegar and Chiles