#i’m absolutely obsessed w food and all its implications and consequences

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honestly I can't get the idea of sirius cooking and this leading to him + harry bonding out of my head. personally, i don't think he can cook that well. guy grew up w house-elves at home + hogwarts, and after that had enough money that he decided to live what he thought was the muggle food experience and just ate take away or leeched off of james + lily's cooking. i imagine effie taught him a bit, but considering he went to azkaban for 12 years he probably forgot most of it. enter: harry, when he comes to stay with sirius, and sirius isn't about to let harry do any work so he decides to cook for him bc no way is he letting kreacher anywhere near anyones food. only problem is he has no clue how to properly cook a meal, and he sure as hell isn't going to ask molly and he's not sure of remus' cooking skills, but he decides to try anyway (it doesn't turn out great), and seeing this harry rolls up his sleeves and teaches sirius to cook. obviously harry is probably pretty good from his days as a live-in chef at the dursleys, and i like to think sirius is a quick learner, so this leads to a ritual of there's where they cook together every dinner. their bonding time is cooking different dishes, and in the end they have too many cookbooks to count

dude. DUDE. this is literally one of my favoritest headcanons ever. i think i’ve put it in some fic too?

i also think sirius learnt a bit from effie and the forgot in azkaban so it was like. a bit tough for him ykno? and he’s picked up bits n pieces from james (like aloo paranthas and chai!!) but that’s the extent of it.

until harry comes in, experienced as a chef. and the first time his godson makes a full meal for him, he’s like :O

(and then the meaning of that, why harry would know how to cook so well at such a young age, hits him and he just. really wants to burn something to the ground then)

and i think cooking was a way for them to break the ice too like, once all the chaos dies down and harry’s living with sirius, u just have two strangers sharing the same house ykno? it’s gonna be awkward as fuck. and i imagine sirius shouting the house down bc he’s trying to make breakfast or lunch for harry one day but it goes very wrong and harry comes down to what looks like a crime scene (the tomatoes weren’t cooperating) and just goes 😧😧

he then, hesitantly, offers to help sirius but only if he wants to no pressure harry’s not even that great a cool he just thought—

and sirius, ofc, is jumping w joy at being able to spend time w his godson so he says yes. and just. that’s it. that’s where it all begins. hours and hours of getting to know each other, hearing stories of the past, talking about anything and everything—it’s priceless.

and they keep it going even when sirius had learnt to cook super well, even after harry moves out and gets married and has kids. their weekly cooking together time is sacred and the entire potter-black family knows that.