Christmas Food and Recipes

While most of the world is thinking about getting the turkey ready, the french people is more concerned with duck meat (magret de canard) and oysters and scallops (coquilles saint jacques).
Holiday season here is definitively different from other places, it is much more refined than the usual family get-together around. There is lots of fun and playful kids. Just that eating here is not a substitute for lack of better thing to do is a pleasure and it's cultivated.
Found some recipes on the net, the coquille are http://www.completerecipes.com/31152.htm and the canard http://www.completerecipes.com/69514.htm.
Hope you try some of those for a change.