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Hey, I'm Gen Z. Not everyone here is older. I do cook. Quite well. I can be a bit lazy tho and I'm poor. So it's simple cheap stuff usually. I like to get chicken or pork, put some chinese chilli sauce on it, and bake it until its crispy. Then maybe some sweet and sour on top. Another good simple sauce is soy sauce mixed with peanut butter and heated and stirred a bit. Rice with some yellow curry powder, msg, and dried onion/carrots while its cooking, then adding the juices from whatever meat you cooked at the end is pretty good. Red Thai Curry powder is also great and can go on almost anything. A lot of my diet is just whatever meat cuts are dirt cheap (usually chicken quarters or pork half loin), rice, potatoes, beans, and other dirt cheap stuff.
Edit: Also, for the time aspect. It's good to find meals that you can just let cook and don't need to be watched. Like I can throw chicken thighs in the oven with a potato, leave it at 375F for 1.5 hours then come back and they're both done and ready to eat. Not need to check on it. I can do other things in the mean time. Like chores. Altho, that specific one only works if you enjoy your chicken cooked to shit which I personally do. I like it cooked so much it falls off the bone.
Go on please with the chicken recipe. I assume you are drenching it in sauce? Recipe pls. It doesn't have to be specific. I'll start. I've been doing thighs with a gojujang, honey, soy sauce, powdered ginger mixture (eyeball it according to taste, don't add salt if you have the soy). I use a cast iron pan because you can throw it in the oven, render the fat side in the pan on the stove (cold pan, fat side down in cast iron, turn heat to med, let it sit for 10-12 minutes or more until it is browning noticeably, then flip, hammer them with that sauce, throw it in a 375 oven and let it go 35 minutes (In your case an hour or more, that does seem like a lot). I pull them after about 25 minutes, sauce them again and crank the oven to 450, for the last 10 minutes.
I'm not really a strict recipe person. I have like general things I'll do but I mix it up and just kinda use what I have laying around. The Chinese chilli sauce i mentioned I'm just realizing is Thai not Chinese. Since I checked the back lol. It's Ox Brand Ground Red Chili Sauce. It's like ground up chilis and still has the seeds. I just let it bake into a crust on the chicken since all the water evaporates. If you were doing like a chicken thigh for example I'd get the sauce under the skin before baking it. Then on the skin just add a tad more. Like a glaze. The sweet and sour sauce depends if your big on sweetness or not. It's more like an on the side at the end thing. So like I'll do that stuff but then I'm also just kinda tossing whatever spices I have around on there too.
Another thing you can do that is really good is go to an asian foods market and see if you can find fresh red chilis. They will sell big bags of them. Then you can freeze those and cut them up as needed. Then toss them into some hot oil (like a neutral oil) to make a nice hot chili oil. Which can be used on lots of stuff. Try to find things that look like this:
If you want the Thai Red Curry powder I mentioned you can try this. It's very good.
Basically any of these spices/sauces will make chicken taste great. But be aware I'm a big fan of spicy so some of this stuff is too spicy for a lot of people. I'm not really able to gauge what is super spicy and what isn't. I will eat something and not even think its spicy then someone else is acting like they're gonna die. And even to me the fresh chinese red chilis are noticably spicy. The others not so much.
Edit to say I looked it up and I think the Chilis I get are called Thai Bird's Eye Chilis.