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1 carrot, coarsely chopped

1rib celery, coarsely chopped

1/2 oion, coarsely chopped

1/2 red bell pepper, coarsely chopped

4 wht mushrooms, coarsely chopped

3 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped 

2 1/2 pounds ground chuck

 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

1 egg beaten

1 teasppon dried Italian herbs

2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 

1cup plain bread crumbs

1 teasppon Olive oil

Glaze Ingredients 

2 tablespoons Brown sugar

2 table spoons Ketchup

2 tablespoons Dijon mustard

hot pepper sauce too taste.

Preheat Oven 325 degrees F.

Plce the carrot, celery, onion, red bell pepper, mushrooms, and garlic in a food processor, and pulse until very finely chopped almost to a puree. Place the minced vegetables into large mixing bowl, and mix in ground chuck, Worcestershire sauce, and egg. Add Italian herbs, salt an pepper, and cayenne pepper. Mix gently with wooden spoon to incorporate vegetables an egg into meat. Pour in bread crumbs, with hand gently mix in the crumbs with fingerstips just until combined abt a min. 

Pour Olive oil into baking dish and place the meat into dish, Shape the meat into loaf, abt 4inches high by 6inches across.

Bake in the preheated oven just untill the meatloaf is hot abt 20 min.

Meanwhile in small bowl mix together brown sugar, Ketchup, Dijon mustard, an hot sauce.  Stir untill brown sugar has dissolved. 

Remove the meatloaf from oven. With the back of spoon, smooth the Glaze onto the top of the meatloaf, then pull a little bit of glaze down sides of the meatloaf with the back of spoon. 

Return meatloaf to oven, and bake untill loaf is no longer pink inside and the glaze has baked onto loaf, 30 to 40 minutes, sometimes longer 1 hr. Cooking time will depend on shape and thickness of the meatloaf.