Making Pastel de Choclo with Gloria

This is a post I realized I forgot to write... Three weeks into our trip, Gloria, the nanny from across the hall, offered to make Pastel de Choclo for us.  I asked her if she would mind doing it at our apartment so I could learn, and she happily agreed.  This isn't an exact recipe, but more or less, here is what she did:

Husk and cut corn off 3 large cobs (Cobs of corn in Chile are huge, so in the U.S. it is probably closer to 4 or 5 cobs...)

Chop 2 yellow onions - Cook them in a pan for a few minutes without oil, then add oil afterward (she claims doing it this way makes the onion's flavor less strong...)

Put the cut corn in blender with a small amount of water and liquify.  Add in a few leaves of basil, too.

Add ground beef (about a pound) to the cooked onions with some salt and let it cook.

Put the corn and basil mixture into a large pot to cook for a while on medium-high.  Add some sugar to taste, just to make it a little bit sweet.  Cook until the color changes.

Boil an egg - put a quarter of the hard boiled egg into each bowl on top of the meat and onion mixture.  

Optional:  Add one olive to each bowl.

Fill each bowl to the top with the corn mixture.

Sprinkle a little bit of sugar on top just to make it golden.  Put bowls into the oven under the broiler just long enough to turn that sugar golden.