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Strawberries.

Chilled strawberry soup
Strawberry and avacado salad
Strawberry cheesecake.

How about peaches or apricots?

For starter - peach, mozzarella and parma ham salad (slices of ripe peaches, bits of mozzarella and strips of parma ham with salad leaves in a balsamic and olive oil dressing).

Peach sorbet or ice.

Main - pork stuffed with a peach/apricot stuffing

Dessert - roasted peaches with amaretto biscuits, served with creme fraiche

Cheese course - include a bit of white stilton or wensleydale with apricots (can't remember which it is you can get)

Or perhaps an obvious one, lemon:

Starter - griddled asparagus drizzled with balsamic, olive oil and lemon juice

Lemon sorbet

Main - lemon chicken - I've seen a mediterranean style recipe where chicken is baked with lemon halves and olives

Dessert - lemon cheese cake, Sussex pond pudding or a lemon creme brulee

5th course - make petit fours using lemon

Pears: 1st course: Pear,walnut, endive salad
2nd course:Roast Pork with pears
3rd course: Pear sorbet
4th course: Poached pears in red wine
5th course: Cheese platter with Nashi pears.

rhubarb could be your ansa.....

use it in a chutney with onions etc to accompany a pate for example, or even in a sauce with sultanas and rosemary to go with pork or lamb. don't think it would mix with beef, chicken or fish. then the ice cream/sorbet is self explanatory. for a pud you could do fool or bake a cake using the breadcrumb/veg oil and loadsa eggs method and infuse with a rhubarb syrup.

as you pointed out earlier, it is seasonal so could be a good bet for the moment...x