How long do you take?

I reckon an average of an hour too. Even washing, peeling and slicing all the veg for a salad and a bit of coleslaw takes 20 mins - without the potatoes and whatever the “main event” is.
I’m not complaining. Getting food on the table is one indoor “chore” that I really enjoy.
It’s all the other horrible indoor jobs I hate, cleaning, vacuuming, dusting, polishing, ironing, bed making. Not that I do a lot of any of that.

Hear, hear, couldn't have put it better. I think we're the same here.

Some nights it's a 'ping' dinner but even then we have fresh veg accompaniments.  These days I try to use the oven efficiently,  perhaps cooking two day's meals at once.  It takes me  about an hour on average.   It would take twice as long with P's help, so he's exiled from the kitchen until there's washing up to do.

Another question to you all: when there are two or more of you, is it a joint decision what's for dinner, or a benevolent dictatorship?  Here I try to involve P but all he says is 'I'll enjoy anything you give me darling'