Maybe put high heat/light loving plants there? Try hot peppers, (they would probably LOVE it!) onions, tomatoes if you keep them watered
enough. Do not put anything that sunburns for the summer, like lettuces, most herbs, etc, but put them there in fall so they last a long time. Consider it a microclimate of it's own, you have a chunk of the desert in Oregon!
In NM I had high sun areas that I used cheap trellis to partly shade it. Not sure if you get cheap trellises there.