Chef Ham El-Waylly wasn’t always an avid home cook. After his mother’s unexpected passing when he was 19, he inherited a tattered notebook she kept with annotated recipes and newspaper clippings from all over the world. For years, grief prevented him from cooking from the “Madonna Notebook” — it has an illustration of Madonna holding a microphone on the cover — but rediscovering these recipes during the pandemic turned out to be a revelation. Several of her greatest hits make cameos in his debut cookbook, ‘Hello, Home Cooking,’ which he describes as “a collection of global comfort food recipes that are doable on any night of the week.” At home, he shares kitchen duties with his wife Sohla; preparing simple meals for their two-year-old daughter is a team effort. El-Waylly is also the chef and co-owner of Srange Delight in Fort Greene, which leaves little time for tweezering food at home. “I mostly do my restaurant-style cooking at the restaurant and my home-style cooking at home,” he says. “It’s nice to have an outlet for my chef brain, so those two styles don’t have to cross.” Read his #GrubStreetDiet: