My grandfather was german, we had a lot of sausages, he'd cut them with his jack knife and put them on my plate and tell me 'eata, eata', then he'd pinch my knees. ha ha
Grandma would make fried potatoes at lunch (their dinner) a lot. We loved saurkraut too, and creamed vegetables at the end of the week, or soup made of all the leftover veggies.
There is a nice little family german restaurant down the road 3 miles from where I work. They have lots of standard german dishes but very authentic, and a liver dumpling soup for a side each day, and the sweet sour red cabbage slaw, yum. I usually have the reuben, open faced with the red sweet sour slaw.
I make a good spaetzle--at least to me and those that eat with me, the little touch of nutmeg makes all the difference and you have to cook them in a rich broth (chicken soup).